A Centre for Innovative Manufacturing and Construction

创新制造和建筑研究中心（IMCRC）将承担制造、建筑和产品设计领域的各种工作。这项工作将包含在5个方案内：转型组织/为个人、组织、行业和地区提供充满活力和创新的能力，使其在复杂和不确定的未来中茁壮成长。高价值资产/提供工具、技术和设计，以最大限度地提高高资本成本、长寿命实物资产的全寿命价值。健康和安全的未来/满足对促进健康、安全和保障的产品和环境日益增长的需求。下一代技术/将产品交付给客户的未来材料、工艺、生产和信息系统定制产品/提供客户特定产品的设计和优化技术。拉夫堡IMCRC的学者在这些领域拥有国际领先的记录，并且在将IMCRC的能力与外部团体的互补优势相结合方面有着强有力的合作历史。创新活动越来越多地分布在整个价值链上。IMCRC令人印象深刻的范围有助于我们反映这一工业现实，并加强知识转移。与其他较小的英国中心相比，IMCRC内活动的规模和多样性的优势使拉夫堡IMCRC在这一技术和价值链整合领域发挥了主导作用。拉夫堡国际研究中心是迄今为止最大的国际研究中心（就学者、研究人员和资金数量而言），它可以采取更全面的方法，并拥有根据需要从其他地方产生、识别和整合专业知识的技能。因此，中心资金的很大一部分（约50%）将分配给涵盖专业知识范围的集成项目或大挑战。该中心涵盖从概念到创作的广泛活动。该中心的活动将与英国和国外的世界上最好的研究人员合作进行。中心内的学者将被组织成3个研究单位，以便他们能够有效地协调，并在项目上合作。

The Innovative Manufacturing and Construction Research Centre (IMCRC) will undertake a wide variety of work in the Manufacturing, Construction and product design areas. The work will be contained within 5 programmes:1. Transforming Organisations / Providing individuals, organisations, sectors and regions with the dynamic and innovative capability to thrive in a complex and uncertain future2. High Value Assets / Delivering tools, techniques and designs to maximise the through-life value of high capital cost, long life physical assets3. Healthy & Secure Future / Meeting the growing need for products & environments that promote health, safety and security4. Next Generation Technologies / The future materials, processes, production and information systems to deliver products to the customer5. Customised Products / The design and optimisation techniques to deliver customer specific products.Academics within the Loughborough IMCRC have an internationally leading track record in these areas and a history of strong collaborations to gear IMCRC capabilities with the complementary strengths of external groups.Innovative activities are increasingly distributed across the value chain. The impressive scope of the IMCRC helps us mirror this industrial reality, and enhances knowledge transfer. This advantage of the size and diversity of activities within the IMCRC compared with other smaller UK centres gives the Loughborough IMCRC a leading role in this technology and value chain integration area. Loughborough IMCRC as by far the biggest IMRC (in terms of number of academics, researchers and in funding) can take a more holistic approach and has the skills to generate, identify and integrate expertise from elsewhere as required. Therefore, a large proportion of the Centre funding (approximately 50%) will be allocated to Integration projects or Grand Challenges that cover a spectrum of expertise.The Centre covers a wide range of activities from Concept to Creation.The activities of the Centre will take place in collaboration with the world's best researchers in the UK and abroad. The academics within the Centre will be organised into 3 Research Units so that they can be co-ordinated effectively and can cooperate on Programmes.