Back in August 2019 I revealed our £36 million R&D competition to transform construction. It was the largest government investment in construction innovation for a generation but unless the industry responded, it could be the last… Would there be enough …
It’s been almost a year since the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) Transforming Construction Challenge made its first awards from our £172 million investment fund creating the Construction Innovation Hub and the Active Building Centre. Connecting and sharing With so …
We already know that we can build cheaper, faster and safer but we must get more from our built environment. We need inspiring places to live and work, and effective ways to move between them.
Around nine years ago, I noticed a huge gap in the construction industry, not many women or girls were considering opportunities in the industry: at that time my training portfolio was 90% male and 10% female.
Few industries shape and support human life as construction does. So as the world enters a time of rapid change, the part our industry plays is vital.
Imagine if you ordered a new car and it came in a series of deliveries and put together by a series of different workers on your driveway. They work from a sheet drawing and can’t tell you exactly when it …
Imagine if the schools we built as a nation helping pupils achieve better educational performance just from the way they were designed. What if UK homes were all built with integrated energy generation and storage meaning most people had zero …
What Industrial Strategy Challenge am I leading? I am the interim Challenge Director for Transforming Construction, which seeks to change the way we deliver the buildings the UK needs. We want to provide places to live and learn that are …
