Transforming Construction Network Plus (N+)
Lead Research Organisation:
University College London
Department Name: Bartlett Sch of Sustainable Construction
Abstract
The purpose of the Network Plus (N+) is to create a new community of researchers and a body of knowledge to inform future construction policy and practice. The N+ is one of the investments within the Transforming Construction Challenge (TCC), a programme supported by the UK government's Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund. The overall aim of these investments is to transform the way the construction and built environment sector operates. Within this, the N+ focuses on supporting research that takes a holistic approach, which means thinking of construction as a production 'system' for built assets that adds value to cities and their infrastructures. Transforming design, construction and operation of buildings is a problem that demands input from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines, which is why major, coordinated investments are being made through the TCC. Within this, the research supported through the N+ will focus on the gaps, inter-relationships and under-explored regions of this domain, spanning digital, energy, construction and manufacturing expertise, in line with the expectations of the Industrial Strategy Construction Sector Deal. The N+ will address a future in which the UK designs, constructs and operates buildings by realising the potential for integrating advanced offsite manufacturing with state-of-the-art digital design and energy generation and storage technologies. By exploring and synthesising knowledge of how people and communities experience and interact with the built environment, N+ will foster new approaches to the provision of inspiring buildings that give rise to greater user satisfaction and productivity. Our ambition is that the N+ should help transform the way buildings are designed, built, powered, managed, and used in the future. The N+ will bring academics together, with industry and policy representatives, through networking activities (such as workshops and conferences) and skills-building events. It will issue two open calls for small research projects, funding up to 20 academic-led and user-inspired projects to generate new research findings. Academics from a range of disciplines will take part and work together with users, as project partners, to develop new ideas for transforming construction. Multidisciplinary research is to be expected (i.e. researchers from different disciplines working together), but interdisciplinary enquiry will be preferred and actively encouraged (where enquiry is problem-focused, and uncoupled from disciplinary norms). The N+ will be particularly mindful of the needs of early and mid-career researchers, because supporting them helps to create a community of collaborative thinkers for the future. It will liaise with other major initiatives, such as the UK Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities (UKCRIC), with its complementary brief to advance the science and engineering of the wider infrastructure and cities context. Opportunities to engage with the N+ include participation in the small projects, attendance at events (organised by the N+ and other TCC projects); web and printed media will be used to disseminate ideas, calls and project results. Those who are not involved in the small projects will still be able to access the N+ events, website, research digests, workshops and conferences. Particular effort will be made to broaden the range of disciplines that typically participate in research on the construction industry, and the N+ will support those who seek new types of engagement with users. A dedicated team of researchers will capture data from leading practice, to extend understanding of the regional innovation systems involved and conduct review that will not only lead to high-quality academic outputs, but will also be summarised in easy-to-digest summaries, with support from the N+ team.
Planned Impact
The principal and long-term impact area for the N+ lies within policy and industry practices. We anticipate potentially significant impact on future construction-related industry policy and organisational approaches as a result of WP2 and the small projects. To initiate this impact, one of the first tasks for the N+ will be to identify suitable individuals within policy-making (e.g. BEIS) and policy-informing (e.g. CPA, CIOB) institutions that can be engaged by the PI. This will be one of the tasks overseen by Construction Leadership Council member, Ann Bentley, who will chair the N+ Strategy Board. The Transforming Construction Challenge (TCC) investments and their own extensive stakeholder groups are a key target audience for the N+, including the 6-8 TCC Research Leadership recipients. Professors Whyte and Ruyssevelt will act as liaisons for the CIH and ABC respectively (T3.4, see Case for Support), and impact with this community will be a standing item on the agenda of N+ management meetings. This is a potentially large grouping (c.100-200 people), so we will ensure that we explore leverage costing for any collaborative events to extend our activities to include these investments. The N+ has a particularly important objective around community-building, so engaging and benefiting a broad range of people among academic stakeholders is key. This will be beyond construction and built environment researchers, and include management scholars, social scientists, manufacturing, and engineering. The N+ will enable them to access new collaborations and projects (WP4&5), and new (interdisciplinary) skills (via T3.2), as well as participate in international academic webinars (T2.4) and share a platform at the N+ conferences. All the small project teams will receive mentoring from an N+ investigator. Early and mid-career researchers are a particular target audience, so the N+ will use a dedicated stream in the Calls and is requesting funds to enable these academics to attend all the N+ events (60 supported places in total) if they don't have access to their own funds to do so. Timings for Calls have been set to take into account academic holidays, so that work-life balance is not affected unreasonably. All the above stakeholder groups are anticipated to benefit from the outputs from WP2 in which we digest findings and make sense of outcomes across all the N+ small projects, representatives from the user community, and the other TCC investments (e.g. ABC, CIH). The two N+ RAs will be moving amongst users and project teams throughout the duration of the N+, so will be in a good position to ensure we reach stakeholders, and engage with them effectively. Community briefings (T2.3), promoted via the KTN, will be useful to demonstrate co-production of knowledge and, with support from the UCL Communications Officer, will be sufficiently industry-oriented in their language and style to encourage circulation. Underpinning all of the above, our communications and knowledge exchange activities (WP3) are critical to ensure that all of our stakeholder groups benefit from the N+. The extensive and multi-channel communications plan is based on digital dissemination means, and 10 in-person events. Helped by the KTN, we will reach an audience of over 30k people immediately, use webinars to broadcast to potentially thousands, meet at least 500 people in person, and support 10-20 project teams. Events will be held in London, the West Midlands, Leeds and Manchester, and Call briefings will be recorded and available via the web. We will also leverage communication support from ESRC, EPSRC, and the UK Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities (UKCRIC). Finally, training and advice from a specialist research impact consultancy will ensure the N+ delivers high-quality impact across the four areas identified in the Pathways to Impact, and that N+ team members are sufficiently skilled to continue applying this approach in subsequent research.
Publications
Campagnolo D
(2023)
Configurations of business model themes and strategies in small firms: a qualitative comparative analysis
in Journal of Management and Governance
Chakuu, S
(2020)
Supply chain Productivity in Construction
Chen L
(2021)
Understanding design change propagation in complex engineering systems using a digital twin and design structure matrix
in Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management
Claypool M
(2021)
Automation and the Discrete: Exploring New Potentials for Streamlining Production in Architectural Design Research
in Journal of Architectural Education
Claypool, M
(2020)
Towards Discrete Automation
Claypool, M
(2020)
Combinatorial Design: Designing Collaborative Models for Construction
Claypool, M
(2021)
Automation and the Discrete: Exploring New Potentials for Streamlining Production in Architectural Design Research
in Journal of Architectural Education RJAE
Claypool, M.
(2021)
Intelligent Control: Disruptive Technologies
Dowsett R
(2022)
Speculation beyond technology: building scenarios through storytelling
in Buildings and Cities
Title | Block West by Automated Architecture and Knowle West Media Centre, 2020 |
Description | Short film realised during the construction of Block West for the Housing Festival in Bristol. The video showcases the direct results of the project and the impact it has had on local communities. |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Impact | This video allowed the team to demonstrate the impact of their research to local communities, who are their primary audience. This was the most relevant and appropriate format. |
URL | https://youtu.be/Pbf5vqHzsgM |
Title | Block-West: Discrete Automation for community-led Housing |
Description | The research team describes in this video the various steps they have taken to deliver their project and showcase the impact of this. |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Impact | The video received more than 350 views on Youtube and was widely shared on Twitter and LinkedIn. |
URL | https://youtu.be/8MOek632B-c |
Title | Deconstructing Katerra Podcast with Jennifer Whyte hosted by CRC Australia |
Description | Jennifer was speaking as a panellist on this podcast, with Australia's Building 4.0 Collaborative Research, which was focused on the collapse of the innovative building firm, Katerra, |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Impact | None to date |
URL | https://building4pointzero.org/podcasts/ep-8-conversation-2-deconstructing-katerra/ |
Title | Fragmentation in Construction |
Description | This short animation aims to explain how fragmentation in construction prevents the effective adoption of product platforms. It is based on the findings in the paper: Jones, K., Mosca, L., Whyte, J., Davies, A., and Glass, J. 2021. Addressing specialization and fragmentation: Product platform development in construction consultancy firms, Construction Management and Economics. https://doi.org/10.1080/01446193.2021.1983187 |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Impact | As of 1st March 2022, this animation had received 226 views on You Tube. |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uGf2eZqvS0 |
Title | HedX podcast with Jennifer Whyte, Episode 38 |
Description | Jennifer Whyte was interviewed on this education-focused podcast. The focus was on opportunities for Australia to connect with the rest of the world. |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Impact | None to date |
URL | https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/hedx/id1531275586 |
Title | How Spacecraft Engineers are Improving Operating Theatre Construction |
Description | The N+ partnered with The B1M company to produce a series of videos introducing the work done by some of the projects we have funded. This video presents the work undertaken by Grant Mills. The video sets out to explain how the space sector could influence and help the construction sector when it comes to building new hospitals and new operating theatres specifically. It provides a unique opportunity to showcase the research done as well as the first outcomes. |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Impact | The video got a lot of traction across various social media platforms. Overall views: 52,484 Overall Impressions: 212,870 Engagement (likes and comments): 4,044 This video allowed us to reach out to a completely new audience and to convey the potential of the research funded by the N+ |
URL | https://youtu.be/FYTixxXE_KM |
Title | Platform Thinking |
Description | A short animation which aims to explain the principles of platform thinking in general and as applied to construction. |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Impact | As of 1st March 2022, this animation had received 657 views on YouTube. |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqdOmR9T0ME |
Title | Podcast with Jacqui Glass hosted by Bryden Wood (Part 1) |
Description | This is Part 1 of a podcast featuring Jacqui Glass, hosted by Bryden Wood in their series called 'Built Environment Matters', in which Jacqui was interviewed by Jaimie Johnston about design, construction and building standards. |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Impact | None to date. |
URL | https://soundcloud.com/brydenwoodtech/part-1-prof-jacqui-glass-from-the-bartlett-ucls-built-environm... |
Title | Podcast with Jacqui Glass hosted by Bryden Wood (Part 2) |
Description | This is Part 2 of a podcast featuring Jacqui Glass, hosted by Bryden Wood in their series called 'Built Environment Matters', in which Jacqui was interviewed by Jaimie Johnston about design, construction and building standards. |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Impact | None to date. |
URL | https://soundcloud.com/brydenwoodtech/part-2-prof-jacqui-glass-from-the-bartlett-ucls-built-environm... |
Title | Podcast with Maurizio Sibilla |
Description | Maurizio Sibilla's interview focused on the low-carbon transition and the interdisciplinary approach required to tackle it. This was included into Oxford Brookes University Unscripted podcast. This initiative is a part of a public engagement activity. Maurizio introduced to the wide audience the concept of building-as-energy-service explored during his N+ funded project. |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Impact | None to date |
URL | https://open.spotify.com/episode/0zZa7CQ8oCq9WAK1gqL6Sr |
Title | Why Social Housing Design Must Focus on People? |
Description | The N+ partnered with The B1M company to produce a series of videos introducing the work done by some of the projects we have funded. The first video presented and discussed the work done by the research team at Teesside University around user-centred design for social housing. it clearly presents the reasons behind the research and the challenge the researchers are trying to address. |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Impact | The video received a lot of tractions across a number of social media platforms. Overall views: 89,216 Overall impressions: 186,317 Engagement (likes and comments): 3,857 The video was shared more than 120 times. |
URL | https://youtu.be/Z5ot0MoTiAc |
Title | Why We Need to Integrate Digital Twins? |
Description | The N+ partnered with The B1M company to produce a series of videos. This video is focusing on the work conducted by Prof Sergio De Cesare around Digital Twins in construction. The video provides a very clear and simple explanation of what digital twins are, what they are used for, and it explains in detail the importance of creating a framework to integrate different digital twin models. |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Impact | Overall views across social media platforms: 22,112 Overall Impressions across social media platforms: 85,506 Engagement (comments and likes) across platforms: 977 This video has allowed us to reach out to a new audience and has triggered some interest from academics and practitioners. |
URL | https://youtu.be/Cc01njLiipl |
Title | why the future of car parking matters? |
Description | This video, produced in partnership with the B1M company, has a nice narrative, a relaxed pace and explains clearly the importance that car parks could play in the future. It focuses on interoperability and how car parks could make an important contribution to energy redistribution around electric vehicles. |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Impact | The video was produced in Feb 2021, so no impact have yet been recorded. |
URL | https://youtu.be/F5hU6RGjOE0 |
Description | Since its launch, the N+ built up a dedicated team, a supportive Strategy Board, and a strong brand within the relevant academic and industry community. It attracted interest from academics, businesses and government representatives, and actively supported the Transforming Construction Challenge in addressing the biggest challenges faced by the UK construction sector. To build this community and engage with key stakeholders, the network delivered thought-provoking events, from webinars with international and recognised experts, online constructive conversations to facilitate the industry-academia collaboration, to discovery days and annual conferences, attracting overall more than 1,600 participants. The network also delivered four digests that contribute to inform future construction practice and policy. The first digest was created for businesses wanting to understand more about business models, and to provide a structure for exploring how their business models can be changed. The second digest focussed on the concept of platform and aims to clarify the ongoing conversation around platform thinking in construction, and organise how we consider the benefits of adopting a platform strategy. The third digest was developed to show how productivity improvements based on supply chain management used in manufacturing can be applied to improve the performance of construction. The final and fourth digest is addressing the importance of the industry-university collaboration to tackle and solve grand challenges, such as the transformation of the whole sector. These publications have been supported by the Transforming Construction Challenge and provide a unique opportunity for the community to define, clarify key concepts that the challenge is trying to address. The first three digests have been downloaded more than 2,800 times on our website and have attracted strong interest from key industry players, such as Constructing Excellence. In addition to this, and with £1m to invest in new research projects, the N+ has organised two funding calls and has funded 13 university-led projects across the two years of the programme. The projects explored various aspects of the built environment and address several stages across the life of a construction project, from inception through operation and end of life. These collaborative projects contributed to an exciting and emergent strand of academic thinking about how we design, build and operate buildings. Each project contributed to the advancement of the academic knowledge in the field, using industry insights or building on other sectors' expertise. To support the dissemination of their findings and ensure the legacy of these research projects, we actively helped the projects with their communication by identifying relevant and appropriate formats for their outputs. This led, for instance, to the production of three videos with The B1M that have recorded more than 160,000 views across various social media platforms and to the production of 4 industry reports that have been shared across the community. As a result of all these activities, the N+ has so far engaged directly with more than 3,850 people through the mailing list, the funding calls and the events, spanning the full breadth of the construction sector. In addition to this, we have continuously grown our audience on Twitter, to reach more than 1,400 followers and we actively connected and engage with other projects of the Transforming Construction Challenge. While the network's remit is principally the UK, recent activity is attracting growing international attention, and we expect this to continue as we publish academic papers into high-impact journals. Online engagement also continues through users replaying event videos (over 2,000 times) and through additional animations on You Tube, linked to digests and papers from the team (over 800 views in first 12 months), as well as feature stories on the new Transforming Construction Stories Catalogue. |
Exploitation Route | The outcomes generated by the N+ funded projects and the N+ research team have been taken forward by the community as well as the Transforming Construction Challenge partners. Some N+ funded projects have been able to secure follow-on funding grant to continue their research. Others have engaged in the I-CURE accelerator programme to explore the commercialisation and exploitation routes of their project results. Finally, some have engaged with other projects funded by the Transforming Construction Challenge to join forces and move their research towards the implementation phases. The N+ research programme, through the publication of the digests, has been able to engage with the industry community. By redefining concepts and providing an overview of the latest academic thinking in some areas, they have allowed industry stakeholders to get a better understanding of fundamental issues and questions in the construction sector. |
Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy Construction Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Energy Manufacturing including Industrial Biotechology Transport |
URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/construction/about-us/transforming-construction-network-plus |
Description | As part of the Transforming Construction Challenge (TCC), this project continues to upload accounts of its impacts to the dedicated, public access website, Stronger Stories (see: https://tc-catalogue.strongerstories.org/). This UKRI site is the formal place where all impact and outcomes from TCC-funded activity will be collated and maintained. The N+ is in the process of uploading the narrative outcomes from the funded projects, but this has suffered some delay due to the pandemic. The four Digests have been downloaded hundreds of times each by a mixed audience including those from construction industry and public sector. They have also been praised online and at industry events, by industry speakers, who have recommended them as good practice examples. As a result of these publications, team members have been invited to present at industry events and there is growing evidence that the digests are being cited and referenced by industry organisations and firms, for example, the Platform Thinking Digest has been referenced in subsequent industry events and publications as the sector's understanding of product platforms continues to evolve. The findings of the small projects that were funded under this grant have also contributed to some non-academic impacts, for example: As a result of the 'Challenging Space Frontiers in hospitals' project, NHS England and the Department of Health & Social Care have stated that manufacturing-led construction offers the greatest opportunity to improve efficiency and productivity in health construction. Martin Rooney, Estates Delivery lead at NHS England and NHS Improvement, confirmed that Modern Methods of Construction should be a critical part of the NHS Health Infrastructure Plan (HIP). And with £21bn worth of major projects planned for 2020 and beyond, this is a huge step forward in the purchasing of hospital buildings to ensure they have the highest levels of quality and customisation, as well as the greatest overall cost saving. During 2022, the outcomes from this project have underpinned the development of the Health Sandpit, hosted at the MTC in Coventry, as part of the wider Transforming Construction programme. The project led by Teesside University entitled "Putting people at the heart of the future of social housing design and manufacture" has been able to produce a matrix design to support architects and house builders to identify and select the right technologies that will best support occupant and environmental outcomes. This matrix process is already being adopted by one of the biggest social housing providers in the North East, Thirteen Group. It will act as a starting point for future research projects so the developed matrix can be tested with a bigger sample and ensure user experience (UX) is drawn on, systematically, by social housing providers, architects, off-site manufacturers and the wider supply chain. Indeed, by 2022, the team had received funding from CRF: Towards a Greener Tees Valley collaborates with Thirteen Housing Group to help develop green projects, and to better understand some of the challenges that the green agenda poses, especially for social housing. The project is funded by the UK Government through the UK Community Renewal Fund (£750K, and is called Towards a Greener Tees Valley: Towards the Tees Valley Energy Transition - Residential Decarbonisation and Skills Analysis The project "Utilising Innovative Methods of Data Capture for Regulatory Compliance Checking" has recently been invited to present the results of their research to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. There is clear indication that there is interest in the work and this may feed into their future regulatory recommendations. This provides early evidence of potential policy impact. In addition to this, the project team has been able to use the findings of this project to engage and support a larger piece of research led by the Construction Innovation Hub. By 2022, the team had gone on to receive £25k of funding from the Welsh Government to further develop the prototypes and use them as a springboard for future impact generation. Sero Homes had also invested in the technology, allowing the team to produce an improved demonstrator of the scanner prototype, and the team have exchanged datasets with a new industrial partner - combining forces to analyse their 200k image dataset of domestic house faults. The "Transitioning to an Automated Construction Supply Chain" project has seen one of their industry partners beginning to embed the knowledge acquired through the project, into their business consultancy practices. The team has also been using the Feasible Futures framework within the University of Reading's MSc Digital Design and Construction programme getting students to explore and understand the implications of robotics and technologies in the built environment more broadly. The aim being to introduce and inform the future workforce of the skills and knowledge necessary to successfully organise for digital transformation projects within the built environment. The "Toolkit for Collaborative Construction" led by Mollie Claypool won a national architectural award and attracted follow-on funding from a few new sources to further explore the novel modular design and construction approach developed with Knowle West in Bristol during the project. |
First Year Of Impact | 2020 |
Sector | Construction,Education,Healthcare |
Impact Types | Societal Economic Policy & public services |
Description | Construction Leadership Council Industrialisation Working Group |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Description | Contributed to The Construction Playbook (Prof Jennifer Whyte) (2020) |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-construction-playbook |
Description | Developed the strategy for the i3P infrastructure innovation partnership |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
URL | https://www.i3p.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/KTN_13P_AR_Summary_v5.pdf |
Description | Global Infrastructure Hub |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
URL | https://www.gihub.org/expert-engagement-groups/ |
Description | Membership of the Construction Leadership Council (Prof Jennifer Whyte) |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
URL | https://www.constructionleadershipcouncil.co.uk/ |
Description | Membership of the Construction Leadership Council Advisory Board (Prof Jacqui Glass) |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
URL | https://www.constructionleadershipcouncil.co.uk/ |
Description | AEC Production Control Room |
Amount | £1,620,904 (GBP) |
Funding ID | 106169 |
Organisation | Innovate UK |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2020 |
End | 03/2022 |
Description | Assess the potential for energy reduction by operational changes to the ventilation strategy of current and future operating theatres (UCLP/Greener NHS) |
Amount | £40,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | University College London |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2022 |
End | 01/2023 |
Description | Battersea Arts Council Co-Creating Change: Growth & Replication Commission (Led by KWMC with Mollie Claypool and Claire McAndrew) |
Amount | £30,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Battersea Arts Centre |
Sector | Multiple |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2021 |
End | 12/2021 |
Description | Building Capacity for Systems Integration in Digitally Enabled Modular Building in the Nottingham, Derby, Sheffield region |
Amount | £74,964 (GBP) |
Organisation | Royal Academy of Engineering |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2018 |
End | 02/2022 |
Description | Co-Creating Change Growth and Replication Grant |
Amount | £30,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Battersea Arts Centre |
Sector | Multiple |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2021 |
End | 09/2021 |
Description | Design implications of a Platform-based Design for Manufacture and Assembly (P-DfMA) approach to construction in housebuilding |
Amount | £95,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2020 |
End | 09/2023 |
Description | Husky+: An outdoor-ready, multi-terrain reality capture robot, for semi-autonomous construction monitoring |
Amount | £43,485 (GBP) |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2020 |
End | 07/2020 |
Description | Increase construction productivity using 3D computer vision & BIM to automate project progress and quality reporting. |
Amount | £370,321 (GBP) |
Funding ID | 104783 |
Organisation | Innovate UK |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2019 |
End | 03/2020 |
Description | London Research Policy Partnership |
Amount | £50,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2023 |
End | 06/2023 |
Description | MMC/DfMA Delivery of an Advanced Operating Theatre |
Amount | £39,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) |
Sector | Private |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2022 |
End | 01/2023 |
Description | Made Smarter Network + |
Amount | £3,824,553 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ES/W007231/1 |
Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2021 |
End | 12/2024 |
Description | N+ small projects' participation in ICURE programme |
Amount | £180,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Innovate UK |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2021 |
End | 12/2021 |
Description | New digital ecosystem to support development of 'Golden Thread' of information |
Amount | £500,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2021 |
Description | Prototypes for Data Capture for Whole Lifecycle Compliance Checking (PI Tom Beach, Cardiff University) |
Amount | £25,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Cardiff University |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2021 |
End | 12/2022 |
Description | Technology Strategy Board, CR&D, Shoreham Port Industrial Cluster - Local Decarbonisation Plan |
Amount | £125,135 (GBP) |
Organisation | Innovate UK |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2024 |
End | 12/2024 |
Description | Transport Infrastructure Efficiency Strategy Living labs |
Amount | £7,739,777 (GBP) |
Funding ID | 106171 |
Organisation | Innovate UK |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2020 |
End | 07/2022 |
Description | UCL Beacon Bursary - Block to Block (PI's: Claire McAndrew and Mollie Claypool) |
Amount | £2,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | University College London |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2022 |
End | 11/2022 |
Description | UCL Beacon Bursary - Public Participation at AUAR Labs: A Pilot Programme (PI's: Claire McAndrew and Mollie Claypool) |
Amount | £2,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | University College London |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2021 |
End | 12/2021 |
Description | Virtual decision rooms for water neutral urban planning (VENTURA) |
Amount | £809,576 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/V042084/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2021 |
End | 04/2024 |
Title | Transforming Construction Network Plus research programme |
Description | This metadata relates to interviews exploring companies' business model changes under the ongoing transformation of the UK construction sector. The data are transcriptions of 43 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with informants from three companies at the vanguard of transformation. Data collection covered a period of 14 months from July 2019 to September 2020. Please note that further metadata can be found on the UK Data Service Repository record at the link included:https://reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk/855441/ |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Transforming_Construction_Network_Plus_research_programme/188... |
Description | Collaboration with MTC (PI Grant Mills) |
Organisation | Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Grant Mills has participated in several workshops with MTC, the CIH and multiple other industry stakeholders bringing expertise in healthcare facilities, and in particular the proposition developed through his N+ funded project. |
Collaborator Contribution | The collaboration is convening multiple supply chain partners to develop new demonstrators for healthcare settings. |
Impact | None to date. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Collaboration with University of Cambridge (PI Sergio de Cesare, University of Westminster) |
Organisation | University of Cambridge |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Sergio de Cesare, on the basis of his involvement in his N+ funded project, was involved as a contributor for two National Digital Twin publications, led by CDBB at The University of Cambridge. |
Collaborator Contribution | The collaborator included reference to Sergio de Cesare's research and expertise. |
Impact | Sergio de Cesare is list as a contributor in the final pages of these reports: Partridge, C., Mitchell, A., & Grenon, P. (2021). A Framework for Composition: A Step Towards a Foundation for Assembly. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1810/321335/A%20Framework%20for%20CompositionA%20Step%20Towards%20a%20Foundation%20for%20Assembly%20FINAL.pdf?sequence=3 Partridge, C., Mitchell, A., Cook, A., Sullivan, J., & West, M. (2020). A Survey of Top-Level Ontologies-to inform the ontological choices for a Foundation Data Model. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1810/313452/A%20survey%20of%20Top-Level%20Ontologies_LowRes%20%281%29.pdf?sequence=5&isAllowed=y |
Start Year | 2020 |
Title | Health Sandpit |
Description | The Health Sandpit follows the success of University College London's Challenging Space Frontiers programme that centred on co-designing different modules of an operating theatre through collaborative planning and specialist supply chain engagement. This was led by Prof Grant Mills, and was one of the research projects funded through the TCN+. The sandpit is one of the facilities based at MTC, under the Construction Innovation Hub programme. |
Type Of Technology | Physical Model/Kit |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Impact | Industry engagement has been strong to date, and the team are exploring next steps to use the digital and physical asset. |
URL | https://constructioninnovationhub.org.uk/our-projects-and-impact/platform-programme/sandpits/health-... |
Title | Supply Chain Resilience Hub: Supply Chain Productivity in Construction |
Description | The productivity in construction tool will help you benchmark your Supply Chain maturity level and set your roadmap for improvement. As part of the Transform Construction Network Plus (TCN+) initiative, WMG worked on developing a supply chain productivity maturity assessment tool for the construction industry. The primary goal of this tool is to allow construction companies to assess the maturity level of their supply chain productivity (SCP). It also advises them on how to manage it to provide high customer value at the lowest possible cost as a result of optimised supply chain processes. Firms are ranked using the 'supply chain productivity maturity assessment tool,' which has four levels: beginner, intermediate, experienced, and expert. Internal integration, external integration, planning capabilities, planning practices, and planning technology are the five key antecedents of Supply Chain Productivity. You will receive a customised report that includes the overall supply chain productivity compared to the industry average, your current level of maturity, and essential strategies to help you frame your approach for the SCP improvement journey. |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Impact | None to date |
URL | https://supplychainresiliencehub.com/tools/transform-construction-network-plus/ |
Description | APM Midlands Industry-Academic Symposium: Project Management (PM) and Artificial Intelligence |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This focus group was organized to gain perspectives and opinions from professionals from diverse industries including automotive, aerospace, manufacturing and logistics. Perspectives on current and future application of sensors in their sectors were collected. Focus group participants were asked questions in an interactive setting to encourage discussion amongst the various individuals. The discussions generated many new ideas (particularly those from non-construction stakeholder) and provided a wealth of new information for our analysis. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | ARCOM - Annual Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | ARCOM is organising each year a conference in September which gathers over 200 of the world's leading academics and researchers. Professor Jacqueline Glass, N+ Principal Investigator, presented the N+ during a keynote. Professor Jan Godsell and Professor Jennifer Whyte, N+ Co-Investigators, also delivered a keynote and mentioned the N+. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Academic Webinar |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Organised as part of a regular seminar series the event to showcase the project. The event allowed them to gain feedback on initial findings, encourage future collaborations, and inform some members of the expert panel of the scope of project |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Architekturmuseum at TU Berlin - Mollie Claypool and Claire McAndrew |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Mollie and Claire presented results from their TCN+ funded research project. Claypool, M. & McAndrew, C. (11 May 2022). Architecture & Automation: New Forms of Production'. Public Programme of Building Information* exhibition at the Architekturmuseum of the Technical University Berlin (31 March - 12 May 2022). Curated by Klaus Platzgummer (Technische Universität Berlin), Lennart Wolff, Kadambari Baxi (Columbia University) and Elisa R. Linn. The exhibition turns to questions of labour, production and ownerships in the context of digital ecosystems and the structuring of actions and actors of design and building practices through hardware/software. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Article in Architect's Journal |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This article features Block West, which was created through Mollie Claypool's N+ funded project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.ajbuildingslibrary.co.uk/projects/display/id/8556 |
Description | Article in Architectural Review |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This article featured Mollie Claypool and Automated Architecture following on from their N+ funded project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.architectural-review.com/competitions/competition-peniche-site-shelter-portugal |
Description | Article in Architecture Today 'The revolution will be mechanised' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Jacqui Glass was invited to write an article to explain specifically for architects how they could become more engaged in the principles of Transforming Construction. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://architecturetoday.co.uk/the-revolution-will-be-mechanised-bartlett-heathrow/ |
Description | Article in Construction Manager: 'Bold action needed if construction's future is to change' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Jacqui Glass was invited to write an article to explain how construction firms and construction management professionals could better engage with the principles of Transforming Construction. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://constructionmanagement.co.uk/bold-action-needed-if-constructions-future-is-to-change/ |
Description | Article in Global Construction Review on the collapse of Katerra |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Kell Jones and Jacqui Glass were invited to write an article on the reasons for Katerra's collapse and what lessons could be learned from this. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.globalconstructionreview.com/why-katerras-demise-shouldnt-deter-constructions-i/ |
Description | Article in Sustainable Mediterranean Construction magazine |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Maurizio Sibilla who led a research project funded by the TCN+ had an article published: Sibilla, M (2022) A TOOL FOR ENERGY TRANSITION ORIENTED INTERMEDIARIES. A stakeholders' perspectives analysis. Sustainable Mediterranean Construction, 15, 28-37 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | http://www.sustainablemediterraneanconstruction.eu/SMC/The_Magazine_n_15_files/1502.pdf |
Description | BPA Webinar: Connecting the Value of Parking and Mobility - what does the future hold? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The event aimed to generate a discussion on thought leadership for post COVID-19 mobility. The objective for participation was to drum up industry interest in the TransPark project. During the broadcast a lot of people engaged through the chat function and after the broadcast 4 industry people got in touch because they were interested in the project. We have added them to the data base for the project and will invite them to the workshops. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://youtu.be/_AZahmfHJ1A |
Description | Beyond Parking |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Dr Ralitsa Hiteva was invited for a conversation with Julian O'Kelly in a BPA podcast in June 2020. This participation enabled Ralitsa to introduce the N+ Transpark Project and situate it into current key conversations within the parking industry. It also gave her the opportunity to link it to work previously conducted around car parks. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/connecting-the-value/id1509435585?i=1000485852706 |
Description | Briefing Workshop in London |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | After opening its first round of funding calls for Small Projects, the Transforming Construction Network Plus organised a briefing workshop in London in February. The event not only allowed the N+ to present the project, but also explain the funding call. The team explained in detail the context of the call, expectations, requirements, and then answered questions from the audience. The event was also broadcast. Questions that were shared online, were monitored during the day so people attending remotely were not disadvantaged, and so given a fair chance to participate in the call. Approximately 60 delegates attended the event; an additional 300 people attended through the webcast. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/construction/news/2019/mar/transforming-construction-network-plus-bri... |
Description | Briefing Workshop in Manchester |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | After opening its first round of funding calls for Small Projects, the Transforming Construction Network Plus organised a briefing workshop in Manchester in February. The event not only allowed the N+ to present the project, but also explain the funding call. The team explained in detail the context of the call, expectations, requirements, and then answered questions from the audience. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/construction/news/2019/mar/transforming-construction-network-plus-bri... |
Description | Briefing webinar - Funding call |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | After announcing its second funding call, the Transforming Construction Network Plus organised a briefing webinar to explain scope, expectations and requirements of the funding and answer any queries. Questions that were shared online were monitored during webinar. 72 people watched the webinar live and 160 people viewed the video afterwards. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfjskL2BziI&t=7s |
Description | Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB); DECONT Workshop, |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The event was organised to disseminate the findings of the projects as well as capture opinions on future business models. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Constructing Excellence Presentation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Prof Jan Godsell presented her research on how to improve construction productivity by looking at manufacturing processes that could be applied in the construction sector. This presentation was very well-received by Constructing Excellence's audience. This led to a request from HS2 representative to be involved in the research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Constructing Excellence South-West: Collaborative Working Mentors Group |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Jan Godsell was invited to contribute to a Constructing Excellence South-West event organised by the Collaborative Working Mentors Group to discuss supply chain productivity in construction, as a follow-on from the launch of the N+ Digest #3 on the same topic. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Constructing Excellence's DECONT workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | The event was organised to gather data and feedback on the future scenarios for the digitalisation of the construction industry. The current and future level of adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies in construction, and the perceived level of perceived value of Digital Enablers within these technologies. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Construction Manager: A new movement for Innovation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Prof Jacqui Glass wrote a opinion piece for Construction Manager. She wrote that the Transforming Construction Network Plus is finding new ways of thinking, researching and collaborating. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://constructionmanagermagazine.com/new-movement-innovation/ |
Description | Construction needed intensive care before the coronavirus |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Prof Hedley Smyth published a opinion piece in Construction Manager in April 2019. He linked Covid-19, Construction and societal H&S plus Digitisation with the industry business model |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.constructionmanagermagazine.com/construction-needed-intensive-care-coronavirus/ |
Description | Constructive Conversations webinar: How industry and universities can work together, better |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | The final webinar in the series of N+ Constructive Conversations brought together experts from within academic research, major projects, and policymaking to share their ideas about the role of collaboration towards innovation and transformation of the construction industry. This event was co-chaired by Professor Jacqueline Glass (Vice Dean Research at The Bartlett, UCL), and Dr Diana Montgomery (Chair at ISCF Transforming Construction Challenge Board). The conversation was joined by Karen Elson (Major Projects Consultant, Co.Cre8 Limited), Andy Mitchell CBE (CEO, Thames Tideway Tunnel), and Dr Jennifer Schooling OBE (Director, Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction, University of Cambridge). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/construction/about-us/transforming-construction-network-plus/research... |
Description | Constructive conversations Webinar: Platforms, platform thinking and the future of building |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | he event brought together academics and industry experts to exchange ideas about platform thinking in construction. Led by N+ Research Fellow Dr Kell Jones, from University College London, the event features guests from industry and academia: - Dr Luigi Mosca, N+ Research Fellow, Imperial College London - Trudi Sully, Impact Director for Manufacturing, the Construction Innovation Hub - Toby Uppington, Senior Vice President, AECOM The theme of platforms, platform thinking and the future of construction was developed as a response to the N+ Digest on platforms in construction, and the work at the Construction Innovation Hub. The conversation explored the ideas and opportunities around of closed, semi open and open platforms and how industry can and is moving towards them. Finally, the speakers offered insights on procurement, risk management and digital approaches linked to the adoption of platforms in construction. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://youtu.be/YBLa_C6NWe4 |
Description | Constructive conversations Webinar: Start with the end-to-end to mind |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | The event brought together academics and industry experts to exchange ideas about the improvement of construction supply chains. The conversation was joined by Nigel Blundell, Partner at Pinsent Masons, Shaun McCarthy OBE, Director of Action Sustainability and chair of the Supply Chain Sustainability School and Elaine Mitchel-Hill, Business and Human Rights Lead at Marshalls Group and was moderated by Professor Jan Godsell, Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Strategy at WMG, University of Warwick and co-investigator of the N+. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://youtu.be/ypWfUR88l9k |
Description | Design Dialogues on Day Treatment Centres |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A one-day workshop which brought together healthcare professionals, architects, designers and researchers to question the current environment for Day Surgery in UK and create a future model of Day Surgery Care. Increased the number of collaborations (Clinical (x2) Academic (x2 - Chalmers University, TU Delft), Architects (x5), Health policy makers (x2), stronger internal UCL collaboration. Development of theatre solutions, skills and will initiate future research and funding proposals. Strengthened collaboration with existing collaborators Health Facilities Scotland and led to an invitation to join a workshop for the development of the Scottish Centre for Excellence for Reducing Infection and other Risk in the Healthcare Built Environment. Developed a new finding on the need for greater collaboration on a green theatre solution. Challenges existing approaches to design and enhanced the development of national standards. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Developing consistent benchmarks to drive improved performance in construction projects Workshop 1 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | The workshop was attended by 16 delegates from MACE, Turner and Townsend, Building Research Establishment, Whole Life Consultants Ltd, Transport for London, Department for Transport, University of Dundee, National Skills Academy for Rail, Heathrow and University of Leeds. The discussions and outcomes from the Workshop, in particular Group Exercise 2 have provided guidance on how best to approach the pilot studies in the subsequent weeks. It helped to identify barriers and challenges which are being faced in this project and also with regards to further projects which will follow on. The Workshop helped to strengthen relations with TfL and Turner and Townsend with whom it was hoped metric data could be examined during the pilot study phase. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Developing consistent benchmarks to drive improved performance in construction projects Workshop 2 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The workshop was attended by 25 people comprising a mix of government bodies, clients, consultants, contractors, research bodies and academia representing the Construction Innovation Hub, Building Research Establishment, Costain, Department for Transport, Faithful+Gould, Infrastructure Projects Authority, Kier Group, MACE Group, National Skills Academy for Rail, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Transport for London, Tideway, Turner and Townsend, Whole Life Consultants, University of Dundee, University of Leeds, University of West of England and UK Parliament. The main outcome of the study to date was to highlight the difference between current and future states of data collection as shown in the Figure below. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Digital Construction Week |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Professor Jacqueline Glass, N+ Principal Investigator, presented the N+ during the session 'Transforming Construction Challenge' at the Digital Construction Week. This panel session also featured Rosemary Nunn (Chair), Founder and Managing Director of I&K, the Innovation and Knowledge Agency; Sam Stacey, Challenge Director for Transforming Construction at UK Research & Innovation; Keith Waller, Programme Director at Construction Innovation Hub; and Ahsan Khan, Director of Research and Innovation at Active Building Centre. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.digitalconstructionweek.com/speaker-qa-professor-jacqueline-glass-ucl/ |
Description | Discovery Day - AMRC University of Sheffield |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Taking place in April, the Discovery Day demonstrated and promoted cutting-edge research at the AMRC (Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre) of the University of Sheffield. Participants had the opportunity to visit the AMRC Factory of the Future, learn about the core concepts that underpin the manufacturing discipline, consider how their expertise could contribute to the Transforming Construction Challenge. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/construction/events/2019/apr/manufacturing-and-me-transform-your-futu... |
Description | Discovery Day - University of Warwick |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Taking place in June, the Discovery Day enabled participants to experience, explore, and discuss the relevance of cutting-edge supply chain research at the WMG, University of Warwick. Participants had the opportunity to explore the WMG Battery and Connected Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) demonstrators and learn more about the core concepts that underpin supply chain management to understand how new technologies have the potential to transform construction supply chains. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/construction/events/2019/jun/discovery-day-managing-supply-chains-suc... |
Description | Feature on 'Feasible Futures' in Construction Management magazine |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The Feasible Futures - SME robotic adoption project and method (funded by the TCN+ and led by Dr Ruth Dowsett) was featured in Construction Management magazine as part of a segment showcasing academic work in the field. The magazine is the UK's most read construction industry magazine. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://constructionmanagement.co.uk/introducing-robotics-to-the-construction-supply-chain/ |
Description | Film on Block West included in SHERobots exhibition, University of Sydney |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Our Block West short film was included in the exhibition SHErobots: Tool, Toy and Companion at the Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney (20 October - 10 December 2022). Authorship: Claypool, C., Mean, M., & McAndrew, C.(arising from a research project funded by the TCN+). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.sydney.edu.au/architecture/about/tin-sheds-gallery/past-exhibitions/she-robots-tool-toy-... |
Description | Future of Building Week - Bringing it all home |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | As part of the Future of Building Week organised by UKRI, the N+ produce a short blog article to present the research undertaken as part of our grant. This blog was tweeted by Innovate UK and was shared by our partners on LinkedIn. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://aka.ukri.org/innovation/industrial-strategy-challenge-fund/transforming-construction/future-... |
Description | Future of Building Week - Listening, looking and acting with the N+ |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | As part of the Future of Building Week organised by UKRI, the research team of the N+ put together a short blog article to present the research undertaken and invite practictioners and industry representatives to get involved. The tweet had more than 2,200 impressions |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://twitter.com/TCN_Plus/status/1283312606355181569 |
Description | Futurebuild |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | As part of the Transforming Construction Challenge, The Transforming Construction Network Plus partners with the Active Building Centre and the Construction Innovation Hub for Futurebuild 2020. The three Transforming Construction Challenge partners were Lead Innovation partners and showcased their activities during the three days at centrally located Innovation Lounge. The Innovation Lounge offered the opportunity to meet with experts across the three organisations and find out how they could be involved. Professor Jacqueline Glass, N+ Principal Investigator, presented the N+ during the session 'Future of the workforce: delivering MMC'. She also released the second N+ digest 'Platform Thinking for Construction' which was available at the Innovation Lounge. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/construction/news/2020/jan/transforming-construction-partners-join-fo... |
Description | Innovation Caucus - MMS Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Prof Jacqui Glass gave a presentation for this MMS Workshop organised by the Innovation Caucus. Jacqui Glass shared her experience of running a Network Plus project and provided key input for future applicants. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | International Symposium on Project Leadership in a Changing World |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Jennifer Whyte hosted this international event in November 2021. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://project-leadership-eng.sydney.edu.au/ |
Description | Invited article for the Association for Project Management |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Mosca, L., Jones, K., Whyte, J., Glass, J., Zhou, A., Davies, A. Experiment with platform thinking. Project, the Journal of the Association for Project Management, Spring 2022, p.52-54. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Invited blog for the Association for Project Management |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Jones, K., Mosca, L., Davies, A. Whyte, J., and Glass, J. Invited blog for the Association for Project Management, Platform-based delivery is transforming the role of project managers, March 2022. Available at: https://www.apm.org.uk/blog/platform-based-delivery-is-transforming-the-role-of-project-managers/ |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.apm.org.uk/blog/platform-based-delivery-is-transforming-the-role-of-project-managers/ |
Description | Invited presentation for the Tata/Construction Excellence Construction Summit |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Invited presentation: "Is de-skilling really the answer?" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Invited speaker, I-4 Cluster, Indonesia |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Robby Soetanto (Loughborough University) was invited to give a talk on The Future of Digital Construction at this online event, drawing on his N+ funded project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9PTB-KenOo |
Description | Invited speaker, Knowvember 2020 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Robby Soetanto, Loughborough University was an Invited speaker on BIM, at this event drawing on his N+ funded project. The talk was titled "Beyond BIM: Skills for Future Digital Construction", and it was organised by Larsen & Toubro Limited in India. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Keynote by Prof Jennifer Whyte at Association for Project Management event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Professor Jennifer Whyte made the opening keynote "Global trends facing project management education and research" Association for Project Management (APM) Festival of Education and Research 2022, 9 February 2022 (London, Online, 400 people). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Keynote by Prof Jennifer Whyte at Building 4.0 CRC Annual Conference, Monash University |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | On 31 August 2022, Professor Jennifer Whyte was a keynote panellist at the Building 4.0 CRC Annual Conference, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, in a session on Industrialisation and Digitalisation. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Let's Build Townhall |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Prof Jacqui Glass participated in this discussion with international speakers organised by Let's Build UK. She shared her views on the transformation of the construction sector and highlighted current projects and programmes in the UK. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | MTC CIH Sandpit Demonstrator Facilitated Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Following on from his N+ funded research, Grant Mills was invited to take part in a two-day workshop at MTC Coventry. He presented his work as part of this Construction Innovation Hub's Sandpit Demonstrator Facilitated Workshop including the healthcare proposition that resulted from the N+. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Manufacturing Made Smarter Network + - Townhall events |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 2 Town Hall events to attract a broad range of social scientists, policy makers, manufacturers and industrial digital technology providers to explain the objectives of the Made Smarter Network+ and encourage their engagement in the design. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Multi-Stakeholder Design Workshops |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Workshops with a broad range of social scientists, policy makers, manufacturers and industrial digital technology providers to design the key activities and themes of the Made Smarter N+. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | N+ Annual Conference - Creating a Movement for Change |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | The Conference 'Creating a Movement for Change' was held at the Royal Society in London in September 2019, it was the first annual conference of the N+. On the day, the attendees were given the opportunity to hear from a range of speakers coming from academia, industry and government, spanning the construction, digital, energy, and manufacturing sectors. The funded projects under the N+ also presented their ongoing research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/construction/news/2019/oct/mobilising-change-construction-transformat... |
Description | N+ Annual Conference: Embracing a Movement for Change |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | On September 15th, the Transforming Construction Network Plus hosted its second annual conference: Embracing a Movement for Change. In these unusual times, the event was held online and was joined by more than 200 people from around the world. Change can't happen if the whole construction sector is not working together and collaborating with other experts, so the conference gathered speakers from a broad range of backgrounds from the UK, Europe and the USA. Multiple examples, best practice stories and advice was shared, considering the challenges that we need to face collectively, and there were energetic debates during the panel discussions. On screen, over 200 attendees participated through the day, raising questions and concerns, and tackling some of the most important questions faced by the construction sector. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/construction/news/2020/oct/embracing-movement-change-its-still-time-t... |
Description | Nudgeathon |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The Nudgeathon used the science of 'nudge' in a hackathon format to address 3 key challenges that social scientists face when conducting research in a manufacturing context. Insights were shared in a report and also informed the design of the resultant Made Smarter N+ proposal. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Panellists at Improving Supply Chain Integration in Construction Delphi event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Luigi Mosca and Kell Jones were invited to be panellists at the Delphi Event: Improving Supply Chain Integration in Construction, organized by WMG (Warwick Manufacturing Group), University of Warwick; 28th January, 2022. This was as a result of their connections made and knowledge gained through the N+ project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Parking as an agent for change |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Dr Kat Lovell and Dr Ralitsa Hiteva published in Parking News Magazine an article to convey key messages from the project to the parking industry through a platform they engage with on a regular basis. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | http://portfolio.cpl.co.uk/Parking-News/404/34/ |
Description | Participation at UK Construction Week 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Networking to raise awareness about the DECONT project. Attending the event has brought collaborators and participants for data collection. Skanska has expressed an interest to host focus group discussion with their staff. The researcher engaged and emailed 25 persons whom he met, with interview questions. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Presentation at Digital Construction Week 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The research team participated in this event to raise awareness about DECONT project and to develop collaborations/network/contacts for data collection (interviews, focus groups, workshops). Sixteen individuals were interviewed during two-day event. All the individuals interviewed were included in their special interest group for further collaborations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Presentation at National Trade Show |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Dr Grant Mills delivered a presentation. The objective was to reach out to multiple sections of the construction industry (incl.build, building tech, civils, energy & HVAC, surface & materials and timber). Increased contact with existing N+ contacts (e.g. Loughborough University, MTC, Elliott, Blacc and McAvoy). Increased offsite manufacture collaborators (x1) and design for manufacture (x2), increased case study access. Stimulated MTC - SEISMIC II proposal initiation. This activity has subsequently led to a new NIHR proposal that is advancing the platform for modern hospital manufacture. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Presentation by Teesside University as part of a BE Networking event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The Teesside University team took part in an industry event 'Understanding The Impact of Low Carbon Retrofit in Residential Properties', on Thursday, 8th December 2022, which covered outcomes from their research project funded through the TCN+ |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.built-environment-networking.com/event/impact-carbon-retrofit/ |
Description | Prof Jacqui Glass and Prof Andy Davies presented to Statsbygg (Norwegian state building commissioner) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Prof Glass and Prof Davies were visited by the Statsbygg senior leadership team, specifically to hear about the outcomes of the TCN+ as well as ongoing and subsequent research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Prof Jacqui Glass presented at 2023 Construction Summit |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Prof Jacqui Glass presented at the 2023 Tata Steel and Constructing Excellence Construction Summit. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Prof Jacqui Glass quoted in HBR Analytics report |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Prof Glass was interviewed and quoted in reports by HBR Analytics. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://hbr.org/sponsored/2022/08/leveraging-artificial-intelligence-and-automation-for-return-on-in... |
Description | Professor Grant Mills: Keynote at IHEEM Healthcare Estates conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Professor Mills delivered a keynote on Implementing Digital Technology & Innovation into the Healthcare Estate at the IHEEM Healthcare Estates conference (attended by over 3,500 EFM professionals) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | http://healthcare-estates.com |
Description | Professor Jennifer Whyte: Invited Keynote, Industrialized Construction Forum, Stanford University, USA |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited Keynote presentation: 'Lessons from Recent Construction Innovation and Industry Transformation' at the Industrialized Construction Forum, Stanford University, USA |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | The power of partnership |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Dr Kejia Yang and Dr Ralitsa Hiteva published an article in Parking News magazine in December 2020 to convey key messages from the project to the parking industry through a platform they engage with on a regular basis |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | http://portfolio.cpl.co.uk/Parking-News/403/40/ |
Description | Transforming Construction Challenge 'Foundations for the Future' closing event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Jacqui Glass was a panellist at this hybrid event held at the MTC in Coventry on 24 February 2022. a total of more than 1000 people watched online. It was the closing event for the programme and summarised the main outcomes. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://t.co/gSORnVLBZp |
Description | Transforming Construction Stories Catalogue: Challenging Space Frontiers in Hospitals |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | The 'Challenging Space Frontiers in Hospitals - Learning from space industry procurement to improve the whole-life value of hospital operating theatres' project, funded through the N+ is showcased on this page, in a simple and accessible format suitable for practitioners. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://tc-catalogue.strongerstories.org/stories/challenging-space-frontiers-in-hospitals/ |
Description | Transforming Construction Stories Catalogue: Data Capture for Whole Lifecycle Compliance Checking |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | The 'Data Capture for Whole Lifecycle Compliance Checking - Improving compliance in construction through digitisation' project, funded through the N+ is showcased on this page, in a simple and accessible format suitable for practitioners. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://tc-catalogue.strongerstories.org/stories/data-capture-for-whole-lifecycle-compliance-checkin... |
Description | Transforming Construction Stories Catalogue: Digital twins in construction |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | The 'Digital twins in construction - improving the integration of digital twins by creating a common data language' project, funded through the N+ is showcased on this page, in a simple and accessible format suitable for practitioners. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://tc-catalogue.strongerstories.org/stories/digital-twins-in-construction/ |
Description | Transforming Construction Stories Catalogue: Envisioning buildings-as-energy-service |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | The 'Envisioning buildings-as-energy-service - a toolkit to turn buildings from passive users of energy to active generators of energy' project, funded through the N+ is showcased on this page, in a simple and accessible format suitable for practitioners. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://tc-catalogue.strongerstories.org/stories/envisioning-buildings-as-energy-service/ |
Description | Transforming Construction Stories Catalogue: Transitioning to an automated supply chain |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | The 'Transitioning to an automated supply chain - future scenarios for greater SME automation' project, funded through the N+ is showcased on this page, in a simple and accessible format suitable for practitioners. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://tc-catalogue.strongerstories.org/stories/transitioning-to-an-automated-supply-chain/ |
Description | Transforming Construction Stories Catalogue: User-centred Design for Social Housing |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | The 'User-centred Design for Social Housing - A matrix for social housing design built around people's needs and values' project, funded through the N+ is showcased on this page, in a simple and accessible format suitable for practitioners. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://tc-catalogue.strongerstories.org/stories/user-centred-design-for-social-housing/ |
Description | UK Construction Week |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Professor Jacqueline Glass, N+ Principal Investigator, took part of the session 'Construction Innovation: Delivering smarter, greener and more efficient buildings' at the UK Construction Week. During her presentation, she presented the N+ and announced the first N+ Digest: 'Changing Business Models: Implications for Construction'. The session also featured Dr Martin Ganley, Director, Smart Homes & Buildings at BRE, Kevin Reeves , Director of IoT & Digital Twin at Costain, Julie Alexander , Director of Technology and Innovation at Places for People and Matt Gough , Director of Innovation at Mace. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.ukconstructionweek.com/seminar-programme-2019/construction-innovation-delivering-smarter... |
Description | Validation workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The proposal for the core themes, structure and funding for the Made Smarter Network + were presented with interactive activities to validate. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Webinar - Rethinking the business model for offsite construction |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Taking place in May, the webinar explored how new business models for modern methods of construction are emerging throughout the world. It featured Associate Professor Daniel Hall from ETH Zurich and Dr Wei Pan from The University of Hong Kong. This event was watched by 85 attendees and has since been viewed by more than 350 people. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/construction/news/2019/jun/transforming-construction-network-plus-web... |
Description | Webinar - The business of industrial transformation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Taking place in October, the webinar considered the management and organisational aspects of the business of industrial transformation. It featured Dr Sam MacAulay from The University of Technology Sydney and Dr Lena Bygballe from BI Business School in Norway. The event was watched by 45 attendees and has since been viewed by 80 people. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/construction/news/2019/oct/transforming-construction-network-plus-web... |
Description | Webinar: Feasible futures - Robot adoption and the SME challenge |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | In this webinar led by Ruth Dowsett and focusing on her N+ funded project, participants: • Explored how the adoption of robotics and machine-based automation might impact how the construction industry and its supply chain operate • Reflected on the socio-political, economic, and cultural settings that might provide the backdrop for robotics and machine-based automation • Considered alternative business models of SMEs adopting robotics and machine-based automation. The webinar was hosted by the Supply Chain Sustainability School and formed part of SCSS' Smart Construction Network E-learning module on technology adoption. A follow up event focused on the future for robot adoption in SMEs. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Webinar: regulatory compliance-checking |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The event was very successful. The primary output was increasing the awareness and dissemination of the work of the project. This has been successful as since then several queries and requests have been received. A second objective was to utilise the webinar as a means of validating elements of our work. In this sense too this was very successful and valuable feedback was received. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Westminster Digital Business Symposium |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Westminster Digital Business Symposium (Theme: Digital Construction) - This event was organised on the basis of Sergio de Cesare's N+ small grant project. The introduction to the workshop presented themes and problem areas that developed from the project (in relation to digital twins) and two of the four presenters were industrial practitioners who took part in the interview phase of the project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |