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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
- Manufacturing – Improving productivity, quality and safety by increasing the use
of manufacturing - Performance – Optimising through-life performance though the development of smart assets, using digital technologies to deliver digital twins. This key area also encompass the development of integrated renewable energy technologies to decarbonise the built environment.
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Open Innovation challenge: Building New From Old - Circular Construction Challenge
Opens: 12/07/2024 Closes: 10/09/2024
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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Innovation Exchange challenge: No dig measurement of pipe condition to ascertain the remaining lifespan of pressurised ferrous pipelines
Opens: 02/08/2024 Closes: 27/09/2024
Our challenge holder, a major UK water company, seeks to find more efficient methods of reliably assessing these pipes so that maintenance and replacement can be planned to reduce disruption and the carbon cost associated with emergency repairs.
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Innovation Exchange challenge: Net Zero and Energy System Transition - Calorific Value Gas Sensor
Opens: 05/08/2024 Closes: 13/09/2024
Cadent Gas is looking for companies who can develop a Calorific Gas sensor that can be installed into the gas network and monitor CV to ensure the gas is correct for use.
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Station Innovation Zone – Year Three
Opens: 22/07/2024 Closes: 24/09/2024
Connected Places Catapult, with Network Rail, invites SMEs to enter the Station Innovation Zone Competition, funded by Innovate UK.
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Innovation Exchange Challenge: New Insulation Materials for Enhanced Sustainable Lintel Products
Opens: 12/08/2024 Closes: 12/09/2024
The Innovation Exchange (iX) program is supporting Catnic, a global steel lintel manufacturer, to identify innovation to replace the fossil fuel-derived foam insulation in its products with a sustainable alternative.
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Innovation Exchange Challenge: Innovation in Functionally Graded Materials
Opens: 12/08/2024 Closes: 12/09/2024
BAE Systems is looking to implement open innovation in the manufacturing of a graded material component with continuously varying composition from one end to the other using two or more materials.
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Related Events and Recordings
Mon
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Sep
2024
Transforming Foundation Industries - Horizon Europe Opportunities
10.00 - 15.00 | Coventry