bwtech@UMBC is a 71-acre research and technology community at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). The campus has a total capacity of 520,000 square feet of office and laboratory space and can accommodate life science and technology companies at all stages of development. Our 5-building Research Park is home to established companies, while our 3-building Incubator and Accelerator is home to companies in the early stages of growth. These companies have access to university expertise, students, technology, programs and facilities.

RWD Technologies' headquarters is located in the 62,000 square-foot, three-story building at 5521 Research Park Drive. The three-story, 60,000 square-foot building at 5523 Research Park Drive, is fully occupied by several companies, including BDMetrics, Solvern Innovations, Convergent Technologies, Med-IQ, Goddard Earth Science and Technology Center (GEST), Erickson School of Aging Studies, Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET), ACTiVATE® and Invoke Systems. Both buildings are owned and managed by Merritt Properties, LLC.

A one-story, 23,500-square-foot building houses the United States Geological Survey (USGS) MD-DE-DC Water Science Center, with which UMBC's researchers have collaborated over the years in analyzing the region's water resources and how to preserve them. Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT) developed the USGS building, 5522 Research Park Drive. COPT also developed the 110,000 square-foot multi-tenant facility at 5520 Research Park Drive, which opened in September 2008 and welcomed its first tenant, RMF Engineering, in December 2008.

Erickson Retirement Communities developed the 100,000-square foot building at 5525 Research Park Drive to house its information technology department and adult living national broadcast network Retirement Living TV (RL-TV). Erickson's presence will increase research collaboration and internship opportunities between the Erickson organization and UMBC students and faculty in The Erickson School and visual arts, communications and information technology programs.