Innovation in Construction: Tools, techniques, and approaches for the next generation of construction projects

艾伯塔大学(The IRC)的建筑工程与管理工业研究讲座项目(IRC)在过去十年中成功地建立了一个主要的模拟和建筑研究所，该项目为下一个十年的研究开发和扩展确定了一套关键目标。我们打算加强和扩大我们与全球顶尖研究人员和产业界的合作和维持关系。拟议的国际创新研讨会寻求将模拟技术领域的顶级研究人员聚集在一起，其中许多人是成功的研究项目和研究中心的领导者，他们的愿景建立在模拟的基础上。这项活动将与2009年8月在艾伯塔省班夫举行的年度加拿大建筑研究论坛一起启动，以吸引该会议的工业从业者和最终用户对IRC的模拟技术和决策支持工具的受众。研讨会的重点将是与政府和行业合作伙伴进行模拟研究，邀请伊利诺伊大学关于建筑研究资金的主要会议的许多领军人物，并将他们与参加论坛的行业领袖联系起来。讲习班有一系列有针对性的具体目标，包括：(1)研究学术界、建筑业和世界各地不同机构的公共部门之间的成功伙伴关系，以便确定在建立这些伙伴关系方面取得成功的关键因素；(2)确定世界各地的研究和教育趋势，以加强国际学术合作；(3)制定一项行动计划，以促进在加拿大和国际合作伙伴机构在这一领域建立新的伙伴关系；(4)巩固与国际合作伙伴机构和建筑业的长期研究和教育举措。该讲习班的成果将促进国际机构和建筑业之间的合作，并将有助于确定维持各国经济增长以及建筑业在全球经济中的竞争力所需的新的研究领域。

Having successfully built up a major simulation and construction research institute over the past ten years, the Industrial Research Chair program in Construction Engineering and Management at the University of Alberta ("the IRC") has identified a set of key objectives for the next decade of research development and expansion. We intend to strengthen and expand our collaborations and sustaining relationships with top-level researchers and industry at the global level. The proposed International Innovation Workshop seeks to bring together top-level researchers in simulation technology, many of whom are leaders of successful research programs and research centres with a vision founded on simulation. This event will be launched alongside the annual Canadian Construction Research Forum in August 2009, at Banff, Alberta, in order to entice that conference's audience of industrial practitioners and end-users of the IRC's simulation technologies and decision-support tools. The Workshop will focus on simulation research with partners in government and industry, inviting many of the leading figures from a major conference on construction research funding at the University of Illinois and connecting them to the industrial leaders participating in the Forum. This Workshop has a number of targeted and tangible objectives, including: (1) To study successful partnerships between academia, the construction industry, and the public sector at different institutions around the world, in order to identify the critical success factors in the creation of these partnerships; (2) To identify research and educational trends worldwide to enhance international scholarly collaboration; (3) To define an action plan in order to promote the creation of new partnerships in this area in Canada and international partner institutions; and (4) To consolidate long-term research and education initiatives with international partner institutions and the construction industry. The outcomes of this workshop will foster collaboration among international institutions and the construction industry and it will assist in the identification of new research areas that are needed to sustain economic growth of nations as well as the competitiveness of the construction industry in a global economy.