A new £85 million national challenge is set to overhaul how Britain delivers sustainable social housing, schools, hospitals and public infrastructure, in a bid to boost a sector worth more than £250 billion a year to the UK economy.
Liverpool City Region has been selected to host the first pilot as part of the Industrialising and Digitalising Construction Challenge.
Working with Liverpool Combined Authority and the High Value Manufacturing Catapult, the pilot will apply innovative digital manufacturing processes to standardise ‘kits of parts’, improve digital co-ordination and provide greater certainty of demand. The Challenge is backed through the R&D Missions Accelerator Programme (R&D MAP) funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
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Katherine Bennett, CEO of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult, said:
Our focus is on turning ambition into action. By bringing together manufacturers, housing providers and public clients around shared standards and clearer demand signals, we can give industry the confidence to invest and expand capacity. That is how we move from isolated successes to a more resilient and competitive construction sector.
