Construction Engineering Conference and Workshop 2014: Setting an Industry-Academic Collaborative Research Agenda, Seattle, Washington, March 27-29, 2014

本次研讨会的目的是研究如何使建筑工程的大领域能够为基础研究制定一个议程，以成功和积极地应对未来的挑战。目前，建筑工程行业和学术界之间的合作有限，不注重理论建设研究，缺乏对建筑工程基础理论的理解。拟议的会议和研究研讨会将于2014年在华盛顿的西雅图举行，其目标是确定关键的研究需求，综合可行的研究议程，并从行业和机构代表以及建筑和非建筑学者中创建一个高素质的合作者群体。为了实现研讨会的三个目标，该项目不仅倡导而且积极实践合作：论文和主题演讲由工业界和学术界共同撰写，研究部分被整合到整个活动中，奖学金获得者将在最终的综合研讨会期间促进讨论，记录专业知识和领导小组。如果成功，该讲习班将使建筑工程从传统的创新和解决问题的后期采用者转变为变革的推动者，以严格的科学方法追求自己的需求为重点的研究议程。通过促进基础研究，建筑行业将更深入地了解如何通过为所有利益相关者节省时间和成本来提高其绩效，增强在全球市场上的竞争力，提高交付的建筑设施的可持续性和质量，并降低安全事故的数量。结果将通过一份详细报告分发，该报告将载有方法、各种投入的摘要和最终研究议程，并通过业界-学术团队关于相关问题的同行审查出版物分发。

The objective of this workshop is to investigate how the large domain of construction engineering can be empowered toward setting an agenda for basic research to successfully and proactively address its future challenges. Currently construction engineering has limited collaboration between industry and academia, does not focus on theory-building research, and a lack of understanding on what constitutes fundamental theory in construction engineering. The proposed conference and research workshop will be held in Seattle, Washington in 2014 with the goals of identifying critical research needs, synthesizing an actionable research agenda, and creating a high-caliber cohort of collaborators from industry and agency representatives and of construction and non-construction scholars. To achieve the workshop three goals, the project is designed to not just advocate but actively practice collaboration: Papers and keynote speeches are jointly authored by industry and academia, research components are integrated into the entire event, stipendees will serve to facilitate discussions, record expertise, and lead groups during the culminating synthesis workshop.If successful, this workshop will enable construction engineering to move from being a tradition-bound late adopter of innovation and problem-solving to become a driver of change that pursues its own needs-focused research agenda with rigorous scientific methodologies. By stimulating basic research the construction industry will gain a deeper understanding of how to improve its performance by realizing savings of time and cost for all stakeholders, enhance competitiveness in the global marketplace, improve sustainability and quality of the delivered built facilities, and lower the number of safety incidents. Results will be distributed through a detailed report that will contain the methodology, summaries of the various inputs, and the final research agenda and through peer-reviewed publications on pertinent issues by the industry-academic teams.