International multi-disciplinary workshop: Funding, Financing & Emerging Technologies in Infrastructure

基础设施中的资金、融资和新兴技术研讨会将于2021年12月在纽约市举行，该研讨会将召集国际专家，通过创新的资金和融资以及新兴技术改善后疫情时代的基础设施交付，帮助英国和美国的民用和社会基础设施转型。来自基础设施技术、工程、社会、环境、经济和金融等方面的专家将齐聚一堂，探讨如何采用多学科方法应对众多紧迫的政策挑战。研讨会的目标包括评估新技术和经过验证的技术如何改善基础设施交付，评估替代合同和采购方法——包括公私伙伴关系、价值获取和资产回收——以及收集良好实践，重点关注基础设施政策经验可以提供的教训。研讨会的重点是将经济增长与资源消耗和浪费脱钩，通过将产品和材料循环投入生产，实现可持续、资源高效和低碳的基础设施系统。来自英国和美国的研究团队将成为研讨会的核心。英方方面，研讨会由剑桥大学智能基础设施与建设中心组织。CSIC拥有一个多学科团队，包括各种工程学科的合作。剑桥大学是英国基础设施与城市研究协作馆（UKCRIC）的13个创始合作伙伴之一，UKCRIC在研讨会组织中占有突出地位。在美国方面，康奈尔大学基础设施政策项目（CPIP）将成为研讨会组织的焦点。CPIP的重点是改善实体基础设施的交付、维护和运营，重点是基础设施的资金和融资。CPIP将与位于纽约康奈尔理工学院雅各布斯理工学院的城市技术中心合作。研讨会将包括从业人员、学者、金融家、行业领袖、国家和政府代表，并通过在线技术将其国际覆盖范围扩大到那些无法亲自参加的人。与会者将提出一份具有改造基础设施愿景和专业知识的研究议程。该研讨会将支持美国和英国之间的合作和持续互动，并为学生提供一个参与论坛，并与在国内和国际上享有盛誉的专家建立关系，为下一代基础设施规划和政策专家建立渠道。其结果将在未来几年指导和维持有影响力的研究，为更多的跨国、跨学科和跨部门研究和基础设施实施奠定基础。

The Funding, Financing & Emerging Technologies in Infrastructure workshop to be held in New York City in December 2021 will help transform civil and social infrastructure in the United Kingdom(UK) and United States (US) by assembling international experts to improve infrastructure delivery in a post Covid world through innovative funding and financing as well as emerging technologies. Experts from infrastructure's technological, engineering, social, environmental, economic, and financial dimensions will be convened to explore how a multi-disciplinary approach can address numerous pressing policy challenges. Workshop objectives include an assessment of how new and proven technologies can improve infrastructure delivery, an evaluation of alternative contracting and procurement approaches - including public-private partnerships, value capture, and asset recycling - and assembling good practice with a focus on lessons that the infrastructure policy experience can offer. The workshop will focus on decoupling economic growth from resource consumption and waste by cycling products and materials back into production enabling a sustainable, resource efficient and low carbon infrastructure system. Research teams from the UK and US will form the core of the workshops. On the UK side, the workshop is organized by the Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC) based at the University of Cambridge. CSIC has a multidisciplinary team including collaborations across the various engineering disciplines. Cambridge is one of thirteen founding partners of the United Kingdom Collaboratorium for Research in Infrastructure & Cities (UKCRIC), which features prominently in the workshop organization. On the US side, the Cornell University Program in Infrastructure Policy (CPIP) will be the focal point of workshop organization. CPIP is focused on improving the delivery, maintenance, and operation of physical infrastructure with a focus on infrastructure funding and financing. CPIP will partner with the Urban Tech Hub at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute on the Cornell Tech campus in New York City.The workshop will include practitioners, academics, financiers, industry leaders, and state and government representatives and extends its international coverage to those who cannot attend in person through online technologies. Participants will generate a research agenda with the vision and expertise to transform infrastructure. The workshop will support collaboration and continuing interaction between the US and UK and also create a forum for students to participate and forge relationships with experts who have strong national and international reputations, building a pipeline of next-generation experts in infrastructure planning and policy. The result will be to guide and sustain impactful research for years to come, setting the stage for greater cross-country, cross-disciplinary, and cross-sectoral research and infrastructure implementation.