Construction Futures

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The School of Architecture and Built Environment includes the 'Construction Futures' theme, encompassing disciplines such as Architecture, Built Environment, Civil Engineering, and Geography. This research has far-reaching societal impact, influencing policy, decisions, and practice on a global scale. It has instigated changes in organisational practice, information management systems, and has facilitated the advent of Smart Cities. The ambition is to continue this momentum towards creating secure and sustainable improvements in the Built Environment.

The vision is to establish a versatile, cutting-edge centre of excellence for integrated architecture, built environment, and civil engineering; a centre that emphasises a people-centric, industry-facing approach to research. The mission is to apply impactful research outputs to communities at the local, national, and international levels. The overarching objective is to maximise the impact from innovative research across a three-tiered strategy:

• Direct project investors and end users are primary beneficiaries.
• Secondary beneficiaries are supply chain services, supporting projects in design, procurement, manufacturing, servitisation etc.
• The wider economy and society, including societal impact from publicly-funded research, social, cultural, environmental, and economic measures, are tertiary beneficiaries.

The research is orchestrated and supervised by the CFRC and strategically disseminated via two key research groups: 'Digital Construction' and 'Smart and Sustainable Construction'.

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University of Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton