Over the next few years, the construction sector will witness a wave of infrastructure projects (£60 billion of spend each year over the next decade) and ground work will be undertaken to set future financial settlements. The pace of this growth, and the size of this opportunity, demands a construction sector that is the best in the world. To maximise the opportunities to drive efficiency savings across the delivery of the transport infrastructure pipeline, this proposal brings together key UK Transport Client groups, Suppliers and academic experts to establish a Transport Infrastructure Efficiency 'Living Lab' to build capability within delivery, innovation and managing construction risk. The UK has had a modest track record of infrastructure delivery with some programmes completed late; over budget; failing to secure the benefits expected; or cancelled after a significant investment. With the increasing challenge and complexity of the government's pipeline of major projects, the capacity to deliver is being stretched. The estimation of cost and schedule can be improved and major projects and programmes are tending to avoid innovation risk. These attitudes to uncertainty and risk are deeply engrained and cultural, with inconsistencies across Departments and ALBs. Together, they create barriers to the greater uptake of Modern Methods of Construction and driving productivity. This proposal offers a strategic, scalable and sector wide approach with Government, Client Groups, Suppliers and Academia working in partnership. To overcome these challenges, the 'Living lab' will work in collaboration with i3P and the CIH to tackle the systemic issues that still obstruct the use, integration and adoption of innovations that could drive productivity and wider social benefits through major construction schemes. It will be a catalyst for cultural change, shifting focus within infrastructure delivery decision-making from the costs of construction to an understanding of its whole life value. Statement from Professor Lord Robert Mair, Cambridge University, Chair of the DFT Science Advisory Council and Member, Transport Research & Innovation Board: "This demonstrator is a transformative collaboration. It uses data, technology and Modern Methods of Construction within live transport infrastructure projects to showcase the value of data visualisation through real-time data control rooms and demonstrates where we can drive even greater productivity and efficiency through innovation transfer. By implementing advanced construction and engineering techniques on live projects, we will deliver significantly better outcomes for society and provide the evidence needed to scale how we drive productivity across the transport infrastructure sector."

The FASTtruss project is focused on developing a Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) solution for off-site automated production of steel tube lattice-truss fabrications. This innovation will potentially unlock major opportunities for both the UK and export markets. Currently, lattice trusses are manufactured in a bespoke manner where extensive labour input, manual-handling and limited repeatability present challenges to increasing efficiency. The project will use DfMA to design a suite of standardised steel lattice truss systems which are parameterised for mass-customisation. Furthermore, it will establish the economic viability of creating a fully-automated production facility and a physical proof-of-concept demonstrator that incorporates automated assembly and robotic welding processes. The technologies developed in this project will initially be used for the development of major structural components for warehouses for both domestic and export markets. However, the technologies are scalable for a very wide range of long span buildings in the public and private sectors, including schools, sports halls, airport terminals, industrial buildings. The project will lead to a streamlined one stop shop process for clients and will demonstrate reductions in costs and delays, together with improvements in productivity and outputs, as well as addressing some of the current skills-shortage in construction.

"**Automated Construction Project -- 105 Sumner St, Southwark, London** The project will aim to validate and showcase the benefits that can be delivered using Platform Design for Manufacture and Assembly (P-DfMA) techniques, Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) and digital technologies on a large-scale new build commercial office development. It will use a hybrid steel and concrete structural platform that was developed as part of an Innovate UK First Phase Challenge Fund research project on Automated Construction. The structural platform developed as part of the R&D project will provide the chassis for the office floor space and the project will include the development of cladding and building services components to create a reusable 'kit of parts' based solution for offices. The objective is to showcase the development as an innovation led demonstrator project to deliver buildings 'Faster, Better and Cheaper' adopting manufacturing-based techniques and processes. The project team features industry leading organisations including; Landsec, Bryden Wood, Piercy and Company, Gardiner & Theobald, Mace and Sir Robert McAlpine. The scale and ambition of the project will be a catalyst for change and we hope a major step forward in proving the new business and financial metrics, whole life performance, and supply chain adoption needed to accelerate the transformation of the construction sector. We believe this will be the first building of its kind to be designed and constructed on this basis. **Project Details** Project: Two new build commercial office buildings, built around a publicly accessible internal courtyard, in total comprising c135,000 sqft. It will be 9 storeys high with reception and basement areas. The development will be a high quality and sustainable building with a vastly improved streetscape and public realm continuing the transformation of Southwark. Client: Landsec the UK's leading Real Estate Investment Trust. Vacant possession: 21st of October 2019\. The demolition, sub-structure and enabling works have been procured and a contract placed. Main construction works are scheduled to commence 20th April 2020\. Target programme completion is the 7th February 2022\. The design is at Stage 3 and has planning approval. A Section 73 planning application has been submitted for some minor amendments (to be determined by January 2020). Early stage due diligence and market feedback work is underway in advance of procuring the main construction works. **Areas Addressed** * Digital Methods * MMC and Platform based approaches * Whole life performance * Business models, procurement, analytics, benchmarking and metrics * Financial assurance, warranty and lending"

"Costain and BrydenWood's longstanding and innovative partnership is leading disruption of the traditional design/engineering services marketplace through the development of an integrated suite of tools to automatically design the infrastructure of the future. Our vision is for a **'data-centric infrastructure design process'** that will reduce the time and cost of railway design in a safe and transparent way. We will support Network Rail's Whole Systems Modelling team in the development and demonstration of a new Rail: Automated Infrastructure Design (R:AID) toolkit. The project aligns with the objectives of the Systems Operator, which are: * planning future strategic infrastructure investment * allocating capacity on the national rail network The current mechanism for planning investment and allocating capacity is isolated from the real-world environment. The processes for designing rail systems isolated from the planning model, its capacity requirements and options. We will demonstrate how: * We have built on existing generative design technologies * Can develop a solution relevant to rail * Deliver a demonstrator within 6 months Our project benefits from similar work for Highways England and seeks to remove the need for designing from first principles each time. We will take predetermined engineering standards, methods and procedures and adapt them to create a rules-driven multi-disciplinary process for rapidly designing and engineering a railway. This process, using a generative design approach based on formulae, logic and the input from rail engineering specialists, will seek to create a design that complies to the rules and regulations of the railway and the ORR, but dramatically reducing the time it takes to design, with accurate design leading to improved certainty of constructing and operating a railway. The result is a fully integrated digital design model that provides significant production efficiencies across the asset lifecycle and fully supports a projects business case and objectives. Digital design solutions will revolutionise productivity, lower exposure to harm, achieve predictable delivery on time, to lower cost, providing the desired quality with fewer defects."

"SEISMIC (Standardisation of School Components) is an ambitious project to use digital technology and a highly skilled team to productionise the delivery of school construction in the UK. A successful project will deliver ongoing savings to the UK taxpayer and act as a trailblazer to showcase the benefits of modular building across the construction sector. SEISMIC is a collaboration of 3 leading modular construction delivery partners (Portakabin, McAvoy Group and Elliot Group) together with leading consultants and designers (Blacc Ltd, BrydenWood) and the Manufacturing Technology Centre. In just 12 months, SEISMIC will create a harmonised digital modular build design library which can be used used to configure any new school. Thiw will bring a level of certainty to the school community, the supply base and the UK taxpayer which has never been realised before."