Transforming the construction industry through education, leadership, and research to drive change and influence policy for better outcomes for all. Lasting change comes from within, which is why our Innovation Lab was founded. By educating future industry leaders and delivering evidence-based research, we aim to lead change and progress across the sector and impact policy. Since its launch, the Innovation Lab has been a catalyst for multiple new partnerships, collaborations, and research projects that have delivered tangible benefits for all stakeholders and leveraged substantial additional research funds. Research is a key pillar for this transformation, and the Innovation Lab’s research portfolio is directly aligned to the needs of the industry, with a strong emphasis on technology and innovation. Our research themes include energy efficiency, innovative refurbishment, integrated digital delivery, net-zero carbon, design for manufacture and assembly, and digital twins. Our academic staff, PhD students, and research associates collaborate with partners across academia and industry. This collaboration offers the industry access to the brightest minds and the opportunity to benefit from evidence-based research targeting specific challenges.
We are an innovative design-build company with international portfolio of digital and physical projects all over the world. Nevertheless, we have a strong commitment in H-2020 and H-Europe projects, where we bring our expertise in:
• design-build and procurement
• construction processes and material (circularity, secondary biobased and NBS, recycling & upcycling)
• digital tools as BIM, Digital twins, BEM
• Economic and Financial capabilities in economic plans, financial schemes, business models and regulatory sandboxes.
• Currently, we are involved in 6 R&D Horizon projects in several topics: NEB, Energy Communities, Heritage Building.
Role: Market Intelligence, Funding and business advisory
Our main role will be condensed in WPs 5 “Community and value chain engagement” and 6 “Outreach, replication and exploitation” closely with HPHI and SIG by providing demo the technical, economic and financial support to the planification of the actions and creation of the value chain. Together with the pilots and the technology partners we will co-develop an innovative decision support tool allowing stakeholders, experts and decision makers to estimate and quantify the effects of different de-risking actions applied to investment projects (by leading task 5.5) and we will contribute to co-design innovative and nonstandard contracts with procurement approaches supporting the implementation of innovation and the performance‐based contractual approach (task 5.4). Finally, we will develop the SIRCULAR Road to market (by leading task 6.1) an horizontal Task group that will prioritize the most promising KERs, to co-design associated booklet of potential Business Model and blueprints, with focus on the market and economy sustainability and the circularity. As such, a Commercial Industrial Ecosystem Cluster (sub task 6.1.1) will be deployed.