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Background to SCRI

Background to SCRI. 8 th October 2007. The presentation will cover. Introduction to SCRI SCRI Vision Future Research Portfolio Impacts. Introduction to SCRI. An Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre (IMRC) Formed January 2002 with £2.95M for 5 years

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Background to SCRI

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  1. Background to SCRI 8th October 2007

  2. The presentation will cover • Introduction to SCRI • SCRI Vision • Future Research Portfolio • Impacts

  3. Introduction to SCRI • An Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre (IMRC) • Formed January 2002 with £2.95M for 5 years • Renewed from January 2007 for 5 more years at £4.94M • Integrating three Schools: Built Environment, Art and Design, Computing Sciences & Engineering • Positioned within the 6* Research Institute for the Built and Human Environment (BuHu)

  4. Introduction to SCRI Academic Staff • Prof. Ghassan Aouad: Director (Dean of Faculty) • Prof. Peter Barrett: Chairman (PVC) • Carl Abbott Manager • Prof. Grahame Cooper: Investigator (ISI) • Prof. Mike Kagioglou: Co-Director (HaCiric) • Dr. Vian Ahmed: Investigator (SoBE) • Prof Lauri Koskela: Star Recruit (SoBE) • Prof. Peter McDermott: Investigator (SoBE) • Prof James Powell: Investigator (PVC) • Prof. Yacine Rezgui: Investigator (Director ISI Research Institute • Prof Les Ruddock:Investigator (SoBE) • Prof. Martin Sexton: Investigator (SoBE) • Prof. Pat Sterry: Investigator (A&D) Research Staff • Nick Bakis • Lucinda Barrett (0.6) • Stefan Boddy • Ricardo Codinhoto • Michael Dickinson (CTA) • Andy Fleming • Dr Charlie Fu (0.4) • Guilherme Henrich (PhD Student) • Norman Gilkinson • Dr. Malik Khalfan • Robert Owen (DTA) • Naveed Raja (DTA) • Dr Ade Oyegoke • Raju Pathmeseweran • Dr John Rooke • Steven Ruddock (DTA) • Mohan Siriwardena • Dr. Patricia Tzortzopoulos • Matt Wetherill • Dr Xiaonan Zhang • Pam Allen: Centre Administrator • Karen West: Assistant Administrator 20 Researchers and funded PhDs 13 Senior Academics

  5. Introduction to SCRI Steering Committee • Professor Brian Atkin Atkin Research and Development • Professor Richard Baldwin Consultant • Dr. Matthew Davies EPSRC • Dr Samir Boudjabeur Corus • Professor Rachel Cooper • Lancaster University • Richard Galloway MouchelParkman • Professor Graham Hillier Centre for Process Innovation • Professor Arto Kiviniemi: Committee Co-Chair VTT • John Lorimer • Manchester City Council • Professor John Miller Committee Co-Chair Consultant (ex MIT) • Professor Duane Passman Partnerships for Health • Professor Hennes de Ridder TU Delft • Professor Chris Woods Wates Construction

  6. Revised Vision - Criteria • Actively engaging with the agendas of the international and national academic and industrial communities so creating sustainable strategic alignment • Addressing selected research areas in which SCRI has international intellectual leadership • Achieving maximum academic and industry impact.

  7. Revised Vision – takes into account… • Welcome structural changes reflecting a move to consider a wider built environment view of the industry based on value creation • The desire to make explicit the particular expertise and character of SCRI to an external audience • The desire to show a clearer relationship and flow between the centre’s research expertise, activities that are conducted, the application sectors for research and the exploitation and associated industry impacts

  8. Revised Vision – Action From Steering Committee • Agreement that SCRI should focus not on the construction industry but built environment stakeholders. • Agreement around the content of the procurement, seamless delivery and service into use elements of the diagram. • Presentation and clarity needed to make the diagram more easily understandable. • SCRI needs to ensure that it retains its focus on the areas in which it excels.

  9. Exploitation Realising Value in Use Education Health Seamless Delivery of Value Procuring Value Housing Resulting Vision Diagram Value

  10. Future Research – Seamless Delivery The seamless delivery element of SCRI research focuses on the design and production of assets and services in the built environment. Seamless delivery here implies: • Minimal buffers of time, space or capacity along the material and information flows • Minimal loss of value due to gaps and distortion in requirements flowdown or missing validation and verification • Maximum opprotunity for evolutionary potential to take place across the process • The seamless flow of information between people and systems used in the delivery process.

  11. Current Research – Seamless Delivery • Vision Development • Life Cycle Process Management and Computing • Visual Management in the Real and Virtual World • Collaborative design, planning and construction • Virtual Agents for Intelligent Buildings • IT Platform Development

  12. Seamless Delivery - Impacts • International Leadership in Lean Construction, founders of the European Group for Lean Construction. • IGLC Salford 2008 • Symposium: Towards the Formation of Theory for the Built Environment • Embracing Complexity in Science & Society • Lean Special Interest Group Lean SIG ‘More of this kind of thing should be done. It’s better to have a dialogue than to be given information. In the past, it’s been difficult to talk about construction problems because of the entrenched positions of people in construction. Now, we’re talking’ Eric Johnson (Partner of Paddock Johnson Associates)

  13. Seamless Delivery - Impacts nD Modelling ongoing international research topic with local application 7 Journal Papers on open integration development of nD platform Asset management system developed for BNFL – secondment commenced in January

  14. Current Research – Procuring Value Procuring Value focuses on the processes that define and deliver value within the competitive and cultural environment.  Two related, but not mutually exclusive, concepts are the starting point for analysis namely – sustainability and value. Hence, this theme includes:- • the use of procurement to deliver wider sustainability (social, environmental, and economic) goals and • the use of procurement to help maximize the value jointly created by the stakeholders to construction and the equitable distribution of the resulting rewards • the competitive and cultural environment.

  15. Current Research – Procuring Value • Procurement and Industry Structure • Delivering Social and Economic Benefits through Procurement • Targeting Sustainable Development Policy Objectives Through Construction Procurement

  16. Procuring Value - Impacts • Joint Co-ordinator CIB W92. Symposium on ‘Sustainability and Value Through Construction Procurement’ • RAE Grant Exchange with Singapore • Contribution to 5 Government Reports • CTA - Elevate East Lancashire Collaborative Training Account ‘How can sustainable development policy issues can be addressed throughout the construction procurement lifecycle?’ ‘How can the environmental, social and economic dividends of procurement expenditure be increased?’

  17. Procuring Value - Impact • 36 out of 47 regional local authorities • Representing some 77% of authorities in the region • Actual construction spend is much larger. • 11 local authorities currently not touched are generally smaller rural authorities in Cheshire, Lancashire and Cumbria. • ALL of the regional authorities interface through the COPE.

  18. Future Research – Realising Value in Use Realising Value in Use focuses on the built environment as consumed by users within a societal perspective.  This is multilayered and includes social and economic dimensions. • Socially, users enjoy spaces as individuals, but this also builds to communities and influences many dimensions such as health and wellbeing. • Economically, users work in spaces and together make up organisations and here efficiency and productivity issues arise. • The above areas are of course interactive, e.g. businesses and social as well as economic units.  And more than this the industries related to the built environment are a significant but often unseen part of both the social and economic make up of the nation.

  19. Future Research – Realising Value in Use • Revaluing Construction • Senses, Brain & Space • 21st Century Construction Clients’ Group

  20. Realising Value in Use - Impacts In May 2007 in Cape Town Professor Barrett was elected as President of the CIB for the period 2007–2010, the first from the UK for 30 years The CIB is the global network for international exchange and cooperation in research and innovation in building and construction. It has over 2000 expert members in 60 countries working in more than 50 topic areas. In construction, Nesta found that modern methods of construction were cutting costs and improving efficiency, while the techniques and management used in the construction of Heathrow’s Terminal Five were highly innovative. “We all know Britain is world-leading in science and research. But in some areas, research and development figures and numbers of patents don’t show everything that is truly innovative,” Alastair Darling(Sunday Times June 17th) • Senses, Brain, Space Workshop • CIB President • CIB W65 Joint Co-ordinator • NESTA Report -Hidden Innovation

  21. Current Research – Exploitation The “exploitation” element of SCRI Research aims to increase the co-design/co-production of actionable knowledge between construction practitioners and researchers, by developing virtuous knowledge sharing in order to address, explore and develop ‘worthy problems.’ Worthy problems are negotiated between partners. So exploitation will result from a discourse between all parties, rather than the traditional, technology transfer from the university researchers to the construction practitioners..

  22. Current Research – Exploitation • SCRI Forum • Development of Upbeat Framework • NWUA Innovation Platform Project • Sectors – Health, Schools, Housing

  23. Exploitation - Sectors Healthcare work being led by HaCIRIC. Need to repeat in other sectors in future Housing – Living-i Project (Persimmon Homes), Design for Manufacture Competition, Constructing Excellence – 3 Pillars, Living Steel (Corus) Education – SBS Workshops, Collaboration with BCSE, Constructing Excellence 3 Pillars

  24. Exploitation - Knowledge Transfer SCRI continues to work in innovative ways for knowledge transfer and joint knowledge development. In addition to standard schemes our mechanisms include: SCRI Forum – 6 events a year. Plus collaboration with APM, Business Briefings Salford-CMI Client Group Special Interest Groups with the CKE Consultancy – Persimmon, BNFL, NESTA Working with NWUA to develop appropriate innovation platform for construction ‘We need you all to be following the lead that has been set by institutions like Salford University’ Alan Johnson

  25. Etc Sustainability Index Time Index AccessibilityIndex Life Cycle Costing Index Economic Viability Index Wider Activities • International Research Week • Manchester Science Festival • Sustainable Urban Environments

  26. Wider Impact • Academic output and Industry Contributions

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