UKCRIC - UK Collaboratorium for Research in Infrastructure & Cities: Newcastle Laboratories

英国基础设施与城市研究协作中心（UKCRIC）将为协调一致、世界一流的英国国家基础设施研究社区的发展和发展提供领导和支持，该社区至少涵盖14所大学。它将使政府、城市和商业决策者、投资者、公民和学术界参与一个合资企业，推动创新和价值创造，利用国家基础设施提供的服务。通过中央协调，为知识转让提供一个协调中心，UKCRIC将支持国家基础设施投资方法的逐步改变。UKCRIC的一个关键目标是，通过对一系列国家研究设施的协调投资，直接解决工程和物理科学研究理事会在2015年优先考虑的前四个工程重大挑战：（i）为所有人提供水的可持续工程解决方案;（ii）未来城市;（iii）跨长度尺度的工程;（iv）为所有人提供水的可持续工程解决方案。以及，（iv）识别风险并在工程系统中建立弹性。此申请旨在为基于纽卡斯尔大学科学中心校园开发的城市基础设施工程研究设施的开发提供资本投资。这将提供世界一流的，独特的，地表水管理的研究设施。此外，通过提供研究基础设施来互连多个基础设施系统，UKCRIC@纽卡斯尔将创建一个独特的“综合基础设施”研究设施，以了解系统集成和基础设施的相互依赖性。作为这些活动的结果，UKCRIC@纽卡斯尔将支持更广泛的UKCRIC目标：1产生新的知识，技术和数字解决方案，降低风险，并增加价值，非常大的基础设施投资，将不得不在未来50年内进行; 2针对基础设施问题开发创新解决方案，包括数字解决方案，以降低基础设施的拥有成本并提高衍生服务的价值;3从根本上提高基础设施系统和服务对极端事件的抵御能力;4发展和保持基础设施专业人员的能力，以增加国内和全球商业市场机会。

The UK Collaboratorium for Research in Infrastructure & Cities (UKCRIC) will provide leadership and support for the development and growth of a coordinated and coherent, world class, UK-based national infrastructure research community, spanning at least 14 universities. It will engage government, city and commercial policy makers, investors, citizens and academia in a joint venture that drives innovation and value creation in the exploitation of services provided by national infrastructure. Through central coordination, providing a focal point for knowledge transfer, UKCRIC will support a step-change in the nation's approach to infrastructure investment. A key UKCRIC objective is, through the coordinated investment in a range of national research facilities, to directly address the first four Engineering Grand Challenges prioritised by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council in 2015: (i) Sustainable engineering solutions to provide water for all; (ii) Future Cities; (iii) Engineering across length scales; and, (iv) Identifying risk and building resilience into engineered systems.This application is for a capital investment contribution towards the development of urban infrastructure engineering research facilities to be based on Newcastle University's Science Central campus development. This will provide world class, and unique, research facilities in surface water management. Furthermore, by providing the research infrastructure to interconnect multiple infrastructure systems UKCRIC@Newcastle will create a unique 'integrated infrastructure' research facility to understand system integration and infrastructure interdependencies.As a result of these activities, UKCRIC@Newcastle will support the wider UKCRIC aims to:1 Generate new knowledge, technologies and digital solutions that reduce the risk of, and add value to, the very large investments in infrastructure that will have to be made over the next 50 years;2 Develop innovative solutions, including digital solutions, to infrastructure problems that reduce the cost of ownership of infrastructure and enhance the value of derived services;3 Radically improve the resilience of infrastructure systems and services against extreme events;4 Grow and maintain the capacity and capability of infrastructure professionals so as to enhance domestic and global commercial market opportunities.