The government has invited businesses to bid in two competitions worth up to £36m to fund collaborative R&D and demonstrator projects.
Both competitions focus on modern methods of construction, digital and whole-asset performance. UK Research and Innovation is providing the funding through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund’s Transforming Construction Challenge.
The two competitions are as follows:
Competition 1: Transforming UK construction - collaborative R&D.
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest up to £10m in UK businesses undertaking collaborative research and development projects. Projects should go beyond the state-of-the-art in improving productivity, quality and performance of the UK construction sector.
The project must focus on one or more of the following themes:
To lead a project your organisation must:
Your project’s total eligible costs must be between £150,000 and £1.5m.
Competition 2: Transforming UK construction demonstrator projects.
UK businesses can apply for a share of up to £26m for practical, demonstrator projects in modern methods of construction, digital and whole-life asset performance. This competition aims to invest in approximately ten world-leading practical demonstrators. They must establish improvements in productivity, quality and performance of the UK construction sector.
Demonstrators are the application of approaches, deployed at scale, that aim to improve all aspects of a built assets lifecycle. These will include:
Both competitions open on 28 August, and close at midday on 30 October.
Click here to find out more and apply for Transforming Construction collaborative R&D projects.
Click here to find out more and apply for the Transforming Construction demonstrator projects.
ACE has produced a user-friendly guide for firms interested in applying for this funding. Click here to view the ACE guide, How firms can access funding for the next round of Innovate UK competitions.