UKCRIC is a portfolio of research and innovation facilities and programmes with a mission to underpin the renewal, sustainment and improvement of infrastructure and cities in the UK and elsewhere.
The UK Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities (UKCRIC) provides leadership and support for the development and growth of a coordinated and coherent, world class, UK-based national infrastructure research community. By engaging with government, city and commercial policy makers, investors, citizens and academia, it is a joint venture that drives innovation and value creation in the exploitation of services provided by national infrastructure. Through central coordination, providing a focal point for knowledge transfer, UKCRIC supports a step-change in the nation’s approach to infrastructure investment. Significant initial support from government, industry and higher education institutions has enabled:
Test and Experimental Facilities
A set of interlinked national facilities for research on the basic science, technology and engineering that underpins the economic infrastructure sectors and delivers innovative solutions meeting international, national and city needs.
Urban Observatories
A network of ‘urban laboratories’ for rapid trialing of solutions at scale and gathering/curating large volumes of diverse data about current and proposed infrastructure so as to allow policies, regulation, systems and capital investments to be made on the basis of evidence, analysis and innovation.
Modelling and Simulation
An environment to enable ‘what if’ experiments to be carried out in a high performance computing environment on possible large scale solutions at national, regional and city level. This will allow the de-risking of proposed large scale investments, give insights into possible futures and highlight new mechanisms for value capture and benefit realisation.
Julie Alexander
Chair, UKCRIC Board
Prof Brian Collins
Deputy Convenor
Prof William Powrie
UKCRIC Convenor
The Coordination Node (CN) provides governance and coordination for and on behalf of UKCRIC as a whole to ensure that the collective impact of its investments and research is achieved and communicated across and between sectors and communities.
Crucially, the CN is working to deliver a networked suite of national research test facilities ensuring that the obvious and emergent synergies between them are exploited. Through integration of resources and robust mechanisms for cooperation and collaboration UKCRIC will enable all relevant academic and user communities to work together on the challenges of current and future generation infrastructure in complex urban and non-urban environments.
The CN is also driving and supporting the overall direction of the co-developed UKCRIC strategy, governed and steered by national and international public and private sector experts and ‘future leaders’.
Coordination Node convening and management:
Prof Brian Collins
Principal Investigator, Coordination Node for UKCRIC, University College London
Prof William Powrie
UKCRIC Convenor, University of Southampton
Prof David Richards
UKCRIC Director of Strategy, University of Southampton
Prof Christopher Rogers
UKCRIC Director of Research Integration, University of Birmingham
Prof Paul Jeffrey
UKCRIC Director of Research Impact, Cranfield University
Modelling and Simulation
National Infrastructure Laboratories
National Distributed Water Infrastructure Facility (Sheffield)
Centre for Infrastructure Materials (Imperial College London, Leeds, Manchester)
Urban Water Infrastructure Facility (Cranfield, Newcastle, Sheffield)
National Soil-Foundation-Structure Interaction (SoFSI) Facility (Bristol)
Person-Environment-Activity Research Laboratory (PEARL), UCL
Priming Laboratory EXperiments on Infrastructure and Urban Systems (PLEXUS)
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