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Future buildingThe Low Impact Building Innovation Platform
Innovation in the built environment
Global urbanisation, climate change and energy security are demanding more from the built environment than ever before.
By 2050 it’s estimated that 70% of the global population will live in cities. The UK also intends to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 80%.
Since buildings account for 37% of all UK greenhouse gas emissions, finding sustainable ways to adapt our built environment will be critical to meeting these challenges.
In 2008 Innovate UK established the Low Impact Building Innovation Platform (LIBIP) to focus on the developing market in low impact solutions for new build projects, and on the impact of emerging government policy on refurbishing existing buildings.
Over the past 5 years we’ve invested £79 million (leveraged by co-funding and match funding to £118 million) into 20 major programmes to find answers for these challenges.
As a result we’ve funded 800 UK organisations through 580 projects - with an estimated impact of £1.5 billion on the UK economy.
But this is just the beginning.
“The construction industry contributes almost £90 billion to the UK economy and supports around 3 million jobs. We are well placed to take advantage of new and emerging technologies, commercialise them and then export them across the world.”Vince Cable, Business Secretary
2008 Low Impact Building Innovation Platform established
Jan 2010Design and decision tools£4 million funding, 14 projects
Jan 2009AimC4 www.aimc4.com£3.4 million funding, 1 project
Jun 2010Energy efficient Whitehall£2 million funding, 10 projects
Aug 2009Retrofit for the future£17million funding, 86 projects
Aug 2010User-centred design sandpits£2 million funding, 4 projects
Jan 2009Components and materials in low impact buildings£3 million funding, 5 projects
May 2010Building performance evaluation£8 million funding, 105 projects
Our strategy for 2015–2019The next 5 years is a critical time for the built environment.
The UK needs to build 250,000 homes per year but must overcome unprecedented resource shortages. And by 2016 all Government procured construction must be BIM (building information modelling) compliant.
Construction 2025* expresses the common aspirations of government and industry, for the sector
• 33% lower costs
• 50% faster delivery
• 50% lower emissions
• 50% improvement in exports
*https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/
construction-2025-strategy
Meeting these demands will require significant innovation. We will need to find resilient, sustainable and adaptable solutions, that can be delivered with precision and at high quality on an industrial scale. We must develop new ways to design, construct and maintain our built environment.
The Low Impact Buildings Innovation Platform will be investing up to £60 million between 2015 to 2019 to enable UK business-led innovation.
Our aim is to bring together best practice, knowledge and expertise from both the private and public sectors and academia. We will support the industry to generate growth opportunities in export markets and to protect UK jobs.
“Our funding will help transform the sector, integrate supply chains, capitalise on the UK’s current leadership position, mitigate import threats, develop growth sub-sectors and exploit export opportunities.” Simon Hart, Low Impact Building Innovation Platform Leader - Innovate UK.
Sep 2010Design for future climate
£5 million funding, 50 projects
May 2011Eracobuild
£1million funding, 4 projects
Mar 2013Buildings better connected
£500,000 funding, 15 projects
May 2012Rethinking the build process
£4 million funding, 8 projects
Mar 2014Digitising the construction sector
£6 million funding, 11 projects
Apr 2012Invest in innovative refurb
£6 million funding,10 projects
Oct 2013Future energy management
£3 million funding,10 projects
Feb 2013Scaling up retrofit
£3million funding, 9 projects
Digital design and engineering
We will support next generational digital design and modelling tools to enable a more industrialised, collaborative approach to both new build projects and retrofitting.
We will also support and enable:
• data-driven solutions delivering greater certainty of whole-life building performance, productivity and wellbeing
• industrialised mass production, customisation and digital manufacture
• the on-going adoption of BIM
• technology transfer from other industries including the digital economy and advanced manufacturing
High performance materials and building technologies
We will support the innovation required to adopt of high-performance materials and technologies into an industrialised sector. This includes:
• integrated and composite products
• smart components and sub-assemblies
• embedded self-diagnosing systems
• climate active facades
• smart responsive materials, coatings
We will also work closely with our materials team to enable the best technology transfer across the UK.
Energy management and diagnostics tools
As energy costs increase and legislation tightens we will:
• support energy management and diagnostic tools to complete feedback loops, unlock a data driven economy, and enable business opportunities based on performance-based contracts
• support energy diagnostic data, integration of the Internet of Things, advanced control methods, and autonomous demand responsive control systems
• work with our electronics, sensors and photonics teams to enable best technology transfer, to create low cost dense sensor networks for buildings
Energy eco-systems
We will promote innovation to enable buildings to become part of intelligent, decentralised energy generation and storage systems. We will:
• leverage smart-grid and heat-network technologies to bring greater energy security and resilience to climate impacts
• explore integrated energy generation products that are cheaper and seamlessly integrated within building materials
• work closely with our energy team and government partners to ensure technology and policy are aligned
As markets and technologies change we will also seek to support emerging areas resulting from early adoption and change within the industry.
Jan 2014Localised energy systems£4.5 million funding, 15 projects
Jan 2015Building whole life performance £4 million funding
Oct 2014Digital tool for BIM£1.5 million funding
Jan 2015Supply chain integration in construction £2 million funding
To deliver our strategy we will focus investment in areas likely to deliver high growth.
The story of our successWe have funded and supported over 800 UK organisations to develop innovative products, services and technologies with an estimated economic impact of £1.5 billion via 20 major programmes. Our investment of £79 million has been leveraged to nearly £118 million thanks to:
£31 million in co-funding from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS), the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPRSC).
£34 million in match funding from industry consortium members involved in collaborative R&D projects.
£5 million of aligned European funding to share and exploit research outcomes - partnering with the Institute for Sustainability.
Flagship programmes Retrofit for the future This £17 million programme encouraged collaboration to explore how existing homes can be made more energy efficient - with the aim of achieving an 80% reduction in CO2 emissions for properties in use. 86 project teams got funding to find out how their ideas worked in real homes. The programme stimulated new business opportunities in the retrofit market. The results have also been published online.
Building performance evaluation£8 million funding supported 105 projects exploring how design, building fabric, construction methods, occupancy patterns, handover and operational practices affect a building’s energy use. Data from the programme is being used to help builders and developers deliver better performing, more efficient buildings.
Design for future climate£5 million funding supported 50 projects considering climate change impacts on the design of both new build and refurbishment projects in the UK. It enabled UK companies to become leading innovators in this area and in the emerging global market for these services, which grew by over 5% in 2014. It’s also created a substantial open-access resource on adapting buildings for climate change that will benefit the building design sector.
Digital toolkit for BIMBuilding information modelling (BIM) is transforming the way we procure, construct and operate buildings and infrastructure. The UK is leading the global market for BIM development. £1.5 million funding supported the development of a free-to-use BIM planning tool and classification system, to be launched in 2015.
You can find more information about the impact of our programmes online at:https://connect.innovateuk.org/web/low-impact-building-innovation-platform
Coed Cymru
Coed Cymru led a project to develop a way to use locally sourced timber. The component-based system is used to build low impact, energy efficient, sustainable buildings that can be put together quickly on site or prefabricated in a factory.
Modcell
Support from Innovate UK helped ModCell develop its super-insulated, carbon negative construction system based on straw bales. Its Flying Factory system also enables the assembly of the prefabricated wall and roof panels on site – reducing transport emissions as well.
Demand Logic
Demand Logic received £300,000 in grant funding to develop the Data Acquisition Device. It analyses performance data supplied via building management systems to identify energy wastage and initiate maintenance tasks.
About Innovate UKWe fund, support and connect innovative businesses to accelerate sustainable economic growth. We:
• provide new support for innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with high-growth potential
• make sure that government initiatives such as SBRI (Small Business Research Initiative) attract innovative UK businesses and give companies access to important customers in the public sector
• identify and invest in the sectors that have the greatest potential for innovation to speed up economic growth
• help innovative companies work with their backers so their ideas can be developed commercially
The built environment Construction is one of the largest sectors of the UK economy, contributing around £90 billion to the UK economy annually:
• over 280,000 businesses (large and small) provide approximately 2.9 million jobs
• the UK exports £7.5 billion in professional services and £18 billion high-value building technologies and products annually
• 5 of the largest building design firms in the world are based in the UK
This puts the UK in a strong position to develop innovative solutions to challenges such as climate change and urbanisation.
Innovation PlatformsInnovation Platforms are a powerful approach to innovation. In areas with high growth potential they bring together public and private sectors to work on societal challenges that also present potential business opportunities.
The Low Impact Building Innovation Platform (LIBIP) is Innovate UK’s platform for the built environment. https://connect.innovateuk.org/web/low-impact-building-innovation-platform
Innovate UK is the new name for the Technology Strategy Board – the UK’s innovation agency. We know that taking a new idea to market is a challenge. We fund, support and connect innovative businesses through a unique mix of people and programmes to accelerate sustainable economic growth.
The Technology Strategy Board is an executive non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, and is incorporated by Royal Charter in England and Wales with company number RC000818. Registered office: North Star House, North Star Avenue, Swindon SN2 1UE.
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