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Our focus is on transforming the construction industry by adopting modern methods of construction, and decarbonising.
We are working with our partners to help deliver on the innovation agenda to enable the industry to deliver on the Construction Sector Deal which encompasses the Construction 2025 Strategy, the Transforming Infrastructure Pipeline and the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund which calls for transformation across the sector to eliminate waste, drive down GHG emissions, speed up delivery and lower costs. As a modern efficient industry we will gain recognition on a World stage and improve the export potential of UK companies.
The innovation programmes we are championing are enabling new technologies and solutions to disrupt the market in key areas such as:
- Digital – Delivering better, more certain outcomes using digital technologies
- Manufacturing – Improving productivity, quality and safety by increasing the use
of manufacturing - Performance – Optimising through-life performance though the development of smart assets, using digital technologies to deliver digital twins. This key area also encompass the development of integrated renewable energy technologies to decarbonise the built environment.
Related Opportunities
Net Zero Living: Fast Followers
Opens: 18/01/2023 Closes: 01/03/2023
Local authorities can apply for a share of up to £6 million to build skills and capabilities to accelerate local progress towards net zero.
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Innovation Loans Future Economy Competition: Round 8
Opens: 13/01/2023 Closes: 08/03/2023
UK registered businesses can apply for loans of £100k-£2m for innovative projects with strong commercial potential to significantly improve the UK economy.
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SHAPES - support smart and healthy ‘Agile Ageing’ in the built environment
Opens: 01/01/2023 Closes: 17/03/2023
Organizations are invited to apply for a share of €500,000, to facilitate the creation of novel applications that support smart and healthy ‘Agile Ageing’ in the built environment. Individual grants of €50,000–€100,000 are available for scale-up of existing products or services, or devel
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Towards Zero Carbon Homes and Buildings: a Personal Journey
In this first ever Net Zero Places Innovation Network webinar, Innovate UK KTN’s Mike Moseley will share more about his wealth of experience working with low energy construction products.
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Towards Zero Carbon Homes and Buildings: a Personal Journey
In this first ever Net Zero Places Innovation Network webinar, Innovate UK KTN’s Mike Moseley will share more about his wealth of experience working with low energy construction products.
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Related News
11/11/2022
Hackathon at the Materials Research Exchange (MRE) Exhibition shows the way to reduce time and costs of social housing
Student teams were challenged to provide a significant change to the speed and cost of constructing Social Housing in the UK, combined with the greater use of sustainable materials, and with reduced energy cost.
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19/10/2022
Transforming Foundation Industries at Materials Research Exchange 2022
2050 is now! At Materials Research Exchange 2022, there was a clear urgency about the need to transform the foundation industries (cement, metals, glass, paper, ceramics and chemicals) if we have a hope of meeting our Net Zero targets.