The Construction
Innovation Hub (formerly the Transforming Construction Alliance) announces the
creation of a powerful new Industry Board to ensure key industry decision
makers and leaders help to shape its programme of work.
The £72 million
Construction Innovation Hub, funded by UK Research and Innovation through the
Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, will transform the UK construction
industry.
Its new Industry
Board will:
- Ensure the voice of industry
– consultants, contractors and product suppliers – is fed directly into
the Construction Innovation Hub programme
- Encourage collaboration
across government policy makers, planners and delivery bodies to drive
better social, economic and environmental outcomes from the Construction
Innovation Hub
- Make sure the outputs of the
programme reach businesses with the potential to drive the transformation
of the sector
- Provide external challenge so
the broader, long-term objectives of the Construction Innovation Hub meet
the needs and aspirations of businesses throughout the UK
The appointed
members of the new Industry Board are:
- Mark Farmer, Chief Executive
of Cast Consultancy
- Diana Montgomery, Chief
Executive of the Construction Products Association
- Alasdair Reisner, Chief
Executive of the Civil Engineering Contractors Association
- Hannah Vickers, Chief
Executive of the Association for Consultancy and Engineering
- Victoria Hills, Chief
Executive of the Royal Town Planning Institute
- Huda As’ad, Head of
Performance, Infrastructure and Projects Authority
Keith Waller,
Programme Director for the Construction Innovation Hub said: “The Construction
Innovation Hub is working with government, academia, the Construction
Leadership Council and other industry leaders to develop solutions that can be
used across projects and sectors.
"But I want our
programme to go further. I want to ensure key industry decision makers and
leaders help shape the Construction Innovation Hub, so it can deliver for
industry as well as society at large.
"Our new
Industry Board will help us develop the framework we need, focusing on those
outputs that will make a real difference.”
