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Our focus is on transforming the construction industry by adopting modern methods of construction, and decarbonising.

We are working with our partners to help deliver on the innovation agenda to enable the industry to deliver on the Construction Sector Deal which encompasses the Construction 2025 Strategy, the Transforming Infrastructure Pipeline and the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund which calls for transformation across the sector to eliminate waste, drive down greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, speed up delivery and lower costs. As a modern efficient industry we will gain recognition on a World stage and improve the export potential of UK companies.

The innovation programmes we are championing are enabling new technologies and solutions to disrupt the market in key areas such as:

  • Digital – Delivering better, more certain outcomes using digital technologies
  • ManufacturingImproving productivity, quality and safety by increasing the use
    of manufacturing
  • PerformanceOptimising through-life performance though the development of smart assets, using digital technologies to deliver digital twins.  This key area also encompass the development of integrated renewable energy technologies to decarbonise the built environment.

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Innovation Exchange challenge: Sustainable, high mass, highly finished, monolithic structures

Opens: 11/06/2024   Closes: 01/08/2024

Supporting the UK arm of a major blue-chip international organisation to identify sustainable materials and manufacturers to replace existing precast concrete components.

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Innovation Exchange challenge: Sustainable materials in modular outdoor structures

Opens: 11/06/2024   Closes: 31/07/2024

Supporting the UK arm of a major blue-chip international organisation to identify sustainable materials and manufacturers for outdoor exposure structures.

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Connecting concrete supply chain to innovators

Opens: 05/07/2024   Closes: 02/08/2024

Would you like to connect with innovators who are developing solutions to decarbonise concrete?

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Open Innovation challenge: Building New From Old - Circular Construction Challenge

Opens: 12/07/2024   Closes: 27/08/2024

This Open Innovation challenge, delivered by the Innovate |UK Global Alliance Africa project, is supporting Lafarge Africa Plc (part of Holcim Group) to find innovative, circular ideas for the use of Construction Demolition Materials (CDM) to tackle the challenges of material waste and climate chang…

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UK-Nigeria Sustainable Construction Innovation Lead Customer Programme

Opens: 10/07/2024   Closes: 05/08/2024

Innovate UK Global Alliance Africa project, is investing up to £120,000 for three UK-Nigeria collaborative pilot projects (x £40,000 per project) towards the adoption of sustainable construction practices in Nigeria.

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Innovation Exchange challenge: Underground Tunnelling Techniques

Opens: 08/07/2024   Closes: 15/08/2024

Innovation Exchange seeks innovative solutions for discreetly producing underground pathways in hostile and constrained subterranean environments.

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