i-BUILD: Infrastructure BUsiness models, valuation and Innovation for Local Delivery

i-BUILD：基础设施商业模式、估值和本地交付创新

• 批准号: EP/K012398/1
• 负责人: Richard Dawson
• 金额: $ 454.62万
• 依托单位: Newcastle University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FK012398%2F1
• 关键词: BUILD; Infrastructure; BUsiness; models; valuation

Our national infrastructure - the systems of infrastructure networks (e.g. energy, water, transport, waste, ICT) that support services such as healthcare, education, emergency response and thereby ensure our social, economic and environmental wellbeing - faces a multitude of challenges. A growing population, modern economy and proliferation of new technologies have placed increased and new demands on infrastructure services and made infrastructure networks increasingly inter-connected. Meanwhile, investment has not kept up with the pace of change leaving many components at the end of their life. Moreover, global environmental change necessitates reduced greenhouse gas emissions and improved resilience to extreme events, implying major reconfigurations of these infrastructure systems. Addressing these challenges is further complicated by fragmented, often reactive, regulation and governance arrangements. Existing business models are considered by the Treasury Select Committee to provide poor value but few proven alternative models exist for mobilising finance, particularly in the current economic climate.Continued delivery of our civil infrastructure, particularly given current financial constraints, will require innovative and integrated thinking across engineering, economic and social sciences. If the process of addressing these issues is to take place efficiently, whilst also minimising associated risks, it will need to be underpinned by an appropriate multi-disciplinary approach that brings together engineering, economic and social science expertise to understand infrastructure financing, valuation and interdependencies under a range of possible futures. The evidence that must form the basis for such a strategic approach does not yet exist. However, evidence alone will be insufficient, so we therefore propose to establish a Centre of excellence, i-BUILD, that will bring together three UK universities with world-leading track records in engineering, economics and social sciences; a portfolio of pioneering inter-disciplinary research; and the research vision and capacity to deliver a multi-disciplinary analysis of innovative business models around infrastructure interdependencies.While national scale plans, projects and procedures set the wider agenda, it is at the scale of neighbourhoods, towns and cities that infrastructure is most dense and interdependencies between infrastructures, economies and society are most profound - this is where our bid is focussed. Balancing growth across regions and scales is crucial to the success of the national economy. Moreover, the localism agenda is encouraging local agents to develop new infrastructure related business but these are limited by the lack of robust new business models with which to do so at the local and urban scale. These new business models can only arise from a step change in the cost-benefit ratio for infrastructure delivery which we will achieve by:(i) reducing the costs of infrastructure delivery by understanding interdependencies and alternative finance models, (ii) improving valuation of infrastructure benefits by identifying and exploiting the social, environmental and economic opportunities, and,(iii) reconciling national and local priorities. The i-BUILD centre will deliver these advances through development of a new generation of value analysis tools, interdependency models and multi-scale implementation plans. These methods will be tested on integrative case studies that are co-created with an extensive stakeholder group, to provide demonstrations of new methods that will enable a revolution in the business of infrastructure delivery in the UK. Funding for a Centre provides the opportunity to work flexibly with partners in industry, local and national government to address a research challenge of national and international importance, whilst becoming an international landmark programme recognised for novelty, research excellence and impact.

我们的国家基础设施——支持医疗、教育、应急响应等服务，从而确保我们的社会、经济和环境福祉的基础设施网络系统（如能源、水、运输、废物处理、信息通信技术）——面临着诸多挑战。人口增长、现代经济和新技术的不断发展，对基础设施服务提出了更多新的要求，基础设施网络的互联性日益增强。与此同时，投资并没有跟上变化的步伐，导致许多部件的寿命即将结束。此外，全球环境变化要求减少温室气体排放，提高对极端事件的抵御能力，这意味着这些基础设施系统需要进行重大重新配置。分散的、往往是被动的监管和治理安排使应对这些挑战变得更加复杂。财政部特别委员会（Treasury Select Committee）认为，现有的商业模式价值不高，但在调动资金方面，几乎没有经过验证的替代模式存在，尤其是在当前的经济环境下。我们的民用基础设施的持续交付，特别是在当前财政紧张的情况下，将需要跨越工程、经济和社会科学的创新和综合思维。如果要有效地解决这些问题，同时将相关风险降至最低，就需要以适当的多学科方法为基础，将工程、经济和社会科学专业知识结合起来，了解基础设施融资、估值和各种可能未来的相互依赖关系。必须作为这种战略方针基础的证据尚不存在。然而，仅凭证据是不够的，因此我们建议建立一个卓越中心，即i-BUILD，它将汇集三所在工程、经济和社会科学方面拥有世界领先记录的英国大学；一系列开创性的跨学科研究；以及提供围绕基础设施相互依赖性的创新商业模式的多学科分析的研究愿景和能力。虽然国家规模的计划、项目和程序设定了更广泛的议程，但在社区、城镇和城市的规模上，基础设施最为密集，基础设施、经济和社会之间的相互依存关系最为深刻——这是我们竞标的重点。区域间、规模间的平衡增长对国民经济的成功至关重要。此外，地方主义议程正在鼓励地方代理商开发与基础设施相关的新业务，但由于缺乏在地方和城市规模上开展业务的强有力的新商业模式，这些业务受到限制。这些新的商业模式只能从基础设施交付的成本效益比的逐步变化中产生，我们将通过以下方式实现：(i)通过了解相互依赖关系和替代融资模式来降低基础设施交付的成本，（ii）通过识别和利用社会、环境和经济机会来改善基础设施效益的评估，以及（iii）协调国家和地方的优先事项。i-BUILD中心将通过开发新一代价值分析工具、相互依赖模型和多尺度实施计划来实现这些进步。这些方法将在与广泛的利益相关者团体共同创建的综合案例研究中进行测试，以提供新方法的演示，这些新方法将使英国基础设施交付业务发生革命。研究中心的资金提供了与行业、地方和国家政府的合作伙伴灵活合作的机会，以解决国家和国际重要性的研究挑战，同时成为公认的新颖性、卓越性和影响力的国际标志性项目。

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