Construction Engineering Conference and Workshop 2014: Setting an Industry-Academic Collaborative Research Agenda, Seattle, Washington, March 27-29, 2014

该研讨会的目的是研究如何增强建筑工程这一大领域的能力，为基础研究制定议程，以成功和积极地应对其未来的挑战。目前，建筑工程的产学研合作有限，不注重理论建设的研究，对建筑工程基础理论的构成缺乏认识。拟议的会议和研究研讨会将于2014年在华盛顿州西雅图举行，目的是确定关键的研究需求，综合可操作的研究议程，并创建一支来自行业和机构代表以及建筑和非建筑学者的高素质合作者队伍。为了实现研讨会的三个目标，该项目旨在不仅倡导而且积极实践合作：论文和主旨演讲由工业界和学术界联合撰写，研究组成部分被整合到整个活动中，受薪人员将在最终的综合研讨会期间促进讨论、记录专业知识和领导小组。如果成功，该研讨会将使建筑工程从传统的创新和解决问题的后期采用者转变为变革的驱动力，以严格的科学方法追求自己的以需求为中心的研究议程。通过促进基础研究，建筑业将更深入地了解如何通过为所有利益相关者节省时间和成本来改善其业绩，增强在全球市场上的竞争力，提高已建成设施的可持续性和质量，并降低安全事故的数量。结果将通过一份详细的报告分发，其中将包含方法、各种投入的摘要和最后的研究议程，并通过业界-学术团队就相关问题发表的同行评议出版物。

The objective of this workshop is to investigate how the large domain of construction engineering can be empowered toward setting an agenda for basic research to successfully and proactively address its future challenges. Currently construction engineering has limited collaboration between industry and academia, does not focus on theory-building research, and a lack of understanding on what constitutes fundamental theory in construction engineering. The proposed conference and research workshop will be held in Seattle, Washington in 2014 with the goals of identifying critical research needs, synthesizing an actionable research agenda, and creating a high-caliber cohort of collaborators from industry and agency representatives and of construction and non-construction scholars. To achieve the workshop three goals, the project is designed to not just advocate but actively practice collaboration: Papers and keynote speeches are jointly authored by industry and academia, research components are integrated into the entire event, stipendees will serve to facilitate discussions, record expertise, and lead groups during the culminating synthesis workshop.If successful, this workshop will enable construction engineering to move from being a tradition-bound late adopter of innovation and problem-solving to become a driver of change that pursues its own needs-focused research agenda with rigorous scientific methodologies. By stimulating basic research the construction industry will gain a deeper understanding of how to improve its performance by realizing savings of time and cost for all stakeholders, enhance competitiveness in the global marketplace, improve sustainability and quality of the delivered built facilities, and lower the number of safety incidents. Results will be distributed through a detailed report that will contain the methodology, summaries of the various inputs, and the final research agenda and through peer-reviewed publications on pertinent issues by the industry-academic teams.