Transforming Construction Network Plus (N+)

Network Plus(N+)的目的是创建一个新的研究人员社区和知识体系，为未来的建设政策和实践提供信息。N+是转型建筑挑战(TCC)中的投资之一，该计划由英国政府的产业战略挑战基金支持。这些投资的总体目标是改变建筑和建筑环境部门的运营方式。在这方面，N+侧重于支持采取整体方法的研究，这意味着将建筑视为为城市及其基础设施增加价值的已建成资产的生产“系统”。改造建筑物的设计、建造和运营是一个需要广泛背景和学科投入的问题，这就是为什么正在通过技术合作委员会进行重大、协调的投资。在这方面，通过N+支持的研究将侧重于该领域的差距、相互关系和未被开发的领域，涵盖数字、能源、建筑和制造专业知识，符合工业战略建筑行业交易的预期。N+将通过实现将先进的异地制造与最先进的数字设计以及能源生产和存储技术相结合的潜力，来应对英国设计、建造和运营建筑的未来。通过探索和综合人们和社区如何体验建成环境并与之互动的知识，N+将促进提供鼓舞人心的建筑的新方法，从而提高用户满意度和生产率。我们的雄心壮志是，N+应该有助于改变未来建筑的设计、建造、供电、管理和使用方式。N+将通过联网活动(如讲习班和会议)和技能建设活动，将学术界与业界和政策代表聚集在一起。它将对小型研究项目发出两次公开呼吁，资助最多20个学术主导和用户启发的项目，以产生新的研究成果。来自不同学科的学者将参与其中，并作为项目合作伙伴与用户合作，为改造建筑开发新的想法。多学科研究是可以期待的(即来自不同学科的研究人员共同工作)，但将优先考虑并积极鼓励跨学科研究(在这种情况下，询问是以问题为中心的，与学科规范脱节)。N+将特别注意职业生涯早期和中期研究人员的需求，因为支持他们有助于创建一个面向未来的协作思考者社区。它将与其他主要倡议，如英国基础设施与城市合作研究中心(UKCRIC)及其补充简报保持联系，以推进更广泛的基础设施和城市背景的科学和工程。与N+项目接触的机会包括参与小项目、参加活动(由N+项目和其他TCC项目组织)；将利用网络和印刷媒体传播想法、呼吁和项目成果。那些没有参与小项目的人仍然可以访问N+活动、网站、研究摘要、研讨会和会议。将特别努力扩大通常参与建筑业研究的学科范围，N+将支持那些寻求与用户进行新类型接触的人。一个专门的研究团队将从领先的实践中获取数据，以扩展对所涉及的区域创新系统的理解，并进行审查，这不仅将导致高质量的学术成果，还将在N+团队的支持下，以易于消化的摘要形式进行总结。

The purpose of the Network Plus (N+) is to create a new community of researchers and a body of knowledge to inform future construction policy and practice. The N+ is one of the investments within the Transforming Construction Challenge (TCC), a programme supported by the UK government's Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund. The overall aim of these investments is to transform the way the construction and built environment sector operates. Within this, the N+ focuses on supporting research that takes a holistic approach, which means thinking of construction as a production 'system' for built assets that adds value to cities and their infrastructures. Transforming design, construction and operation of buildings is a problem that demands input from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines, which is why major, coordinated investments are being made through the TCC. Within this, the research supported through the N+ will focus on the gaps, inter-relationships and under-explored regions of this domain, spanning digital, energy, construction and manufacturing expertise, in line with the expectations of the Industrial Strategy Construction Sector Deal. The N+ will address a future in which the UK designs, constructs and operates buildings by realising the potential for integrating advanced offsite manufacturing with state-of-the-art digital design and energy generation and storage technologies. By exploring and synthesising knowledge of how people and communities experience and interact with the built environment, N+ will foster new approaches to the provision of inspiring buildings that give rise to greater user satisfaction and productivity. Our ambition is that the N+ should help transform the way buildings are designed, built, powered, managed, and used in the future. The N+ will bring academics together, with industry and policy representatives, through networking activities (such as workshops and conferences) and skills-building events. It will issue two open calls for small research projects, funding up to 20 academic-led and user-inspired projects to generate new research findings. Academics from a range of disciplines will take part and work together with users, as project partners, to develop new ideas for transforming construction. Multidisciplinary research is to be expected (i.e. researchers from different disciplines working together), but interdisciplinary enquiry will be preferred and actively encouraged (where enquiry is problem-focused, and uncoupled from disciplinary norms). The N+ will be particularly mindful of the needs of early and mid-career researchers, because supporting them helps to create a community of collaborative thinkers for the future. It will liaise with other major initiatives, such as the UK Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities (UKCRIC), with its complementary brief to advance the science and engineering of the wider infrastructure and cities context. Opportunities to engage with the N+ include participation in the small projects, attendance at events (organised by the N+ and other TCC projects); web and printed media will be used to disseminate ideas, calls and project results. Those who are not involved in the small projects will still be able to access the N+ events, website, research digests, workshops and conferences. Particular effort will be made to broaden the range of disciplines that typically participate in research on the construction industry, and the N+ will support those who seek new types of engagement with users. A dedicated team of researchers will capture data from leading practice, to extend understanding of the regional innovation systems involved and conduct review that will not only lead to high-quality academic outputs, but will also be summarised in easy-to-digest summaries, with support from the N+ team.