CSIC Innovation and Knowledge Centre Phase 2

在全球范围内，国家基础设施正面临重大挑战：-资产老化：英国现有的大部分基础设施都老旧，不再适合使用。土木工程师学会在其2014年国家基础设施状况报告中指出，所分析的行业中没有一个“适合未来”，只有一个行业“适合现在”。对现有和新基础设施的未来需求至关重要，并已成为行业文件、研讨会、讲习班和讨论的恒定主题。-增加负荷：现有的基础设施面临着增加负荷和使用量的挑战——无论是运载的乘客数量、车辆数量还是用水量——以及在现有能力下维持现有基础设施运行的要求。-气候变化：预计极端天气事件的数量和严重程度将不断增加，这意味着我们的基础设施在未来需要更具弹性。这些挑战需要创新来解决。然而，在基础设施和建筑行业，经营利润微薄、行业细分以及对安全性和可靠性的高度重视，为将创新引入行业实践创造了障碍。CSIC是一个由EPSRC和Innovate UK资助的创新和知识中心，通过将世界领先的研究成果转化为行业实施，与40多个行业合作伙伴合作开发、试验、提供和交付高质量、低成本、精确的传感器技术和预测工具，帮助解决这一市场失灵问题，从而实现监测基础设施在建设和资产运营过程中的行为的新方法。提供贯穿整个生命周期的方法，以综合的方式实现可持续发展。它为行业提供培训和渠道，开发和提供这些新方法来刺激商业和鼓励经济增长，改善国家基础设施和建筑行业的管理。我们的合作方式汇集了工业界和学术界的领导者，加速了新兴技术的商业开发，促进了知识转移和行业实施，以塑造基础设施的未来。第二阶段的资金将使CSIC能够解决实施智能基础设施解决方案所面临的具体挑战。在接下来的五年里，为了克服这些障碍并在智能基础设施领域创造一个自我维持的市场，CSIC将与更多的行业和学术合作伙伴一起：通过将智能基础设施的组成部分集成到系统方法中，将传感器数据和资产管理决策结合在一起，以改善资产的全生命周期管理和城市规模的基础设施规划，创建行业所需的完整的创新解决方案；在有需要时引入技术，以便以综合方式展示智能技术。-通过与合作伙伴密切合作，在实际基础设施项目中展示和部署新的智能基础设施解决方案，继续建立行业信心。代表行业开发项目，使用种子基金为硬件和消耗品提供资金，并展示能力。-与资产所有者和政府机构一起，在将智能信息与基础设施资产的全生命周期价值模型相结合的基础上，为智能基础设施解决方案创造一个令人信服的商业案例。围绕智能基础设施是未来的整个系统业务案例，关注价值驱动的信息，并将努力将今天的无形资产转化为未来的业务驱动因素。-通过拓展我们在新领域的合作伙伴网络、知识转移、智能基础设施标准和有影响力的政策，促进供应链的发展和扩大。

Globally, national infrastructure is facing significant challenges:- Ageing assets: Much of the UK's existing infrastructure is old and no longer fit for purpose. In its State of the Nation Infrastructure 2014 report the Institution of Civil Engineers stated that none of the sectors analysed were "fit for the future" and only one sector was "adequate for now". The need to future-proof existing and new infrastructure is of paramount importance and has become a constant theme in industry documents, seminars, workshops and discussions.- Increased loading: Existing infrastructure is challenged by the need to increase load and usage - be that number of passengers carried, numbers of vehicles or volume of water used - and the requirement to maintain the existing infrastructure while operating at current capacity.- Changing climate: projections for increasing numbers and severity of extreme weather events mean that our infrastructure will need to be more resilient in the future.These challenges require innovation to address them. However, in the infrastructure and construction industries tight operating margins, industry segmentation and strong emphasis on safety and reliability create barriers to introducing innovation into industry practice.CSIC is an Innovation and Knowledge Centre funded by EPSRC and Innovate UK to help address this market failure, by translating world leading research into industry implementation, working with more than 40 industry partners to develop, trial, provide and deliver high-quality, low cost, accurate sensor technologies and predictive tools which enable new ways of monitoring how infrastructure behaves during construction and asset operation, providing a whole-life approach to achieving sustainability in an integrated way. It provides training and access for industry to source, develop and deliver these new approaches to stimulate business and encourage economic growth, improving the management of the nation's infrastructure and construction industry.Our collaborative approach, bringing together leaders from industry and academia, accelerates the commercial development of emerging technologies, and promotes knowledge transfer and industry implementation to shape the future of infrastructure.Phase 2 funding will enable CSIC to address specific challenges remaining to implementation of smart infrastructure solutions. Over the next five years, to overcome these barriers and create a self-sustaining market in smart infrastructure, CSIC along with an expanded group of industry and academic partners will:- Create the complete, innovative solutions that the sector needs by integrating the components of smart infrastructure into systems approaches, bringing together sensor data and asset management decisions to improve whole life management of assets and city scale infrastructure planning; spin-in technology where necessary, to allow demonstration of smart technology in an integrated manner. - Continue to build industry confidence by working closely with partners to demonstrate and deploy new smart infrastructure solutions on live infrastructure projects. Develop projects on behalf of industry using seed-funds to fund hardware and consumables, and demonstrate capability.- Generate a compelling business case for smart infrastructure solutions together with asset owners and government organisations based on combining smarter information with whole life value models for infrastructure assets. Focus on value-driven messaging around the whole system business case for why smart infrastructure is the future, and will strive to turn today's intangibles into business drivers for the future. - Facilitate the development and expansion of the supply chain through extending our network of partners in new areas, knowledge transfer, smart infrastructure standards and influencing policy.