TWENTY 65: Tailored Water Solutions for Positive Impact

20 65：量身定制的水解决方案带来积极影响

• 批准号: EP/N010124/1
• 负责人: Joby Boxall
• 金额: $ 504.95万
• 依托单位: University of Sheffield
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2016 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FN010124%2F1
• 关键词: TWENTY; 65; Tailored; Water; Solutions

Water for all is the aim of this consortium. The UK water sector faces grand challenges over the coming decades: increasing population, ageing infrastructure, and the need to better protect the natural environment all under conditions of uncertain climate change. The application of traditional technology-based solutions alone is not the way forward. We propose the use of 'tailored solutions' to address these challenges by combining measures to suit specific circumstances and constraints to achieve flexible and adaptive water systems. The project will undertake research in 8 technical themes, each of which individually pose disruptive questions, demonstrate the potential for, and lead transformation. However, they will not be viewed in isolation. When considered in combination, taking a systems view, they can be combined as 'silver baskets' of broader tailored solutions able to work synergistically for existing and new infrastructure in order to achieve transformative impact. Tailoring water solutions does not mean lower quality water services for different sectors in society; rather, it means fair, bespoke solutions appropriate to variations in the natural environment, population distribution, and legacy infrastructure. In this way the project will address the needs of water for all. Our consortium is built around a core based on the Pennine Water Group (PWG) which has been supported continuously by three EPSRC platform grants since 2001. The PWG's strength and international reputation is founded on a balance of fundamental and applied research via a multi-disciplinary approach focusing on urban water asset management. This consortium broadens the PWG to include new expertise to provide tailored water solutions for positive impact. At Sheffield, this will include new collaborations with experts in energy systems, robotics, automation, and management. Externally, the consortium includes internationally-leading experts from Exeter for household and community scale water efficiency, Imperial College for treatment and emerging contaminants, Manchester for social practices, Newcastle for climate change impacts, risk modelling and cities/infrastructure integration, and Reading for catchment processes. All members bring wide international collaborative networks that will link with the scientific and engineering research needed to deliver the silver baskets of tailored solutions.To achieve the envisioned transformation requires time and a step change in the way in which the UK water sector identifies, develops and applies innovation. Stakeholders need to move out of traditional silos and collaborate to creatively co-produce knowledge and action. Academics, scientists and engineers must work across disciplines and stages in the knowledge production process to deliver the complex socio-technical solutions needed to meet the challenges facing the UK water sector. Collaboration is especially relevant in a sector that is not accustomed to working together and does not have a shared vision of how to meet its grand challenges. A unique feature of this consortium is the development of the Hub that will revolutionise the way innovation is delivered to the UK water sector. The Hub aims to provide transformative leadership and accelerate and support innovation through partnerships for the co-production of knowledge across the water sector. Underpinned by world class science and engineering research the Hub will facilitate the development and communication of a shared visionary roadmap for the UK water sector, stimulate and demonstrate new tailored approaches to address the grand challenges, create a process for selecting potentially transformative tailored socio-technical solutions in line with the roadmap and enable the accelerated generation of collaborative, responsible innovation across the UK water sector.

人人享有水是该联盟的目标。未来几十年，英国水务部门将面临巨大挑战：人口增长、基础设施老化，以及在不确定的气候变化条件下更好地保护自然环境的需要。仅应用传统的基于技术的解决方案并不是前进的方向。我们建议使用“量身定制的解决方案”来应对这些挑战，通过结合适合特定情况和限制的措施来实现灵活和适应性的水系统。该项目将在8个技术主题上进行研究，每个主题都单独提出颠覆性问题，展示潜力，并引领转型。然而，我们不能孤立地看待这些问题。当综合考虑时，从系统的角度来看，它们可以作为更广泛的定制解决方案的“银篮子”组合在一起，能够为现有和新的基础设施协同工作，以实现变革性影响。定制水解决方案并不意味着降低社会不同部门的水服务质量；相反，它意味着公平的、定制的解决方案，适合于自然环境、人口分布和遗留基础设施的变化。通过这种方式，该项目将解决所有人的用水需求。我们的联盟以Pennine Water Group （PWG）为核心，该集团自2001年以来一直得到EPSRC三个平台的资助。PWG的实力和国际声誉建立在通过多学科方法专注于城市水资产管理的基础和应用研究的平衡之上。该联盟扩大了PWG，包括新的专业知识，以提供量身定制的水解决方案，产生积极影响。在谢菲尔德大学，这将包括与能源系统、机器人、自动化和管理方面的专家进行新的合作。外部，该联盟包括来自埃克塞特的家庭和社区规模用水效率的国际领先专家，帝国理工学院的处理和新出现的污染物，曼彻斯特的社会实践，纽卡斯尔的气候变化影响，风险建模和城市/基础设施整合，以及雷丁的集水区过程。所有成员都带来了广泛的国际合作网络，这些网络将与提供量身定制的解决方案所需的科学和工程研究联系起来。为了实现预期的转变，英国水务部门在识别、开发和应用创新的方式上需要时间和步骤的改变。利益相关者需要走出传统的竖井，进行协作，创造性地共同产生知识和行动。学者、科学家和工程师必须在知识生产过程中跨学科、跨阶段地工作，以提供复杂的社会技术解决方案，以应对英国水务部门面临的挑战。在一个不习惯合作、对如何应对重大挑战没有共同愿景的部门，合作尤为重要。该联盟的一个独特之处在于，该中心的发展将彻底改变英国水务部门的创新方式。该中心旨在提供变革性的领导，并通过合作伙伴关系加速和支持创新，以共同生产水部门的知识。以世界一流的科学和工程研究为基础，该中心将促进英国水务部门共同愿景路线图的发展和交流，刺激和展示新的定制方法来应对重大挑战，创建一个选择符合路线图的潜在变革性定制社会技术解决方案的过程，并使整个英国水务部门能够加速产生协作，负责任的创新。

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