Instilling a New Culture for Innovation in Canada

加拿大建筑业受到成本上升、利润率下降、新 市场需求日益复杂，生产力下降。这些都需要改变 整个建筑过程中，增加了更多的压力，有限的资源，可用于建筑业。 新的想法和创新可以帮助应对这些趋势，并为提高生产力创造机会， 盈利能力和市场扩张。这将需要建筑行业的文化转变。2014年及 为了响应这一行动号召，建筑业成立了加拿大建筑创新公司 （CCInnovations）。其价值观如下：（1）行业驱动：CCI所做的一切必须与行业相关。 行业，应用并具有可衡量的结果;（2）问责制：CCI对其成员负责 （业主、建筑师、工程师、承包商、制造商和供应商），并扩展到行业， 服务;（3）合作与伙伴关系：CCI必须利用所有可能的资源来完成其任务 通过建立积极的伙伴关系和合作安排;（4）多学科：CCI包括 建筑行业的所有部门，必须利用非常多样化的专业知识和经验， 加拿大和世界各地。本次研讨会旨在吸引CCInnovations的创始合作伙伴，特别是 与会嘉宾及建筑界学者，以达致以下目标： - 确定行业中可以找到务实解决方案并将其推向市场的关键挑战领域 - 确定重点关注每个领域所需的分组 - 建立网络，以利用必要的专门知识来处理每个已确定的领域 - 确定可以在CCI技术理事会任职的个人。 该研讨会对于促进工业界和学术界之间的合作以及进一步促进 在与生产力、盈利能力和市场扩张相关的关键领域开展研究活动。

The Canadian construction industry is significantly impacted by rising costs, reduced profit margins, new increasingly complex market demands, and decline in productivity. These are necessitating a change in the entire construction process, adding more strain to the limited resources available to the construction industry. New ideas and innovation can help address these trends, and create opportunities for increased productivity, profitability and market expansion. This will necessitate a culture shift in the construction industry. In 2014 and in response to this call for action, the construction industry formed Canadian Construction Innovations (CCInnovations). Its values are as follows: (1) Industry-Driven: All that CCI undertakes must be relevant to the industry, applied and have measurable outcome; (2) Accountability: CCI is accountable to its membership (owners, architects, engineers, contractors, manufacturers and suppliers) and by extension to the industry its serves; (3) Collaboration and Partnerships: CCI must leverage all possible resources to accomplish its mandate by establishing active partnerships and collaborative arrangements; (4) Multi-disciplinary: CCI is inclusive of all sectors of the construction industry and must harness the very diverse expertise and experience available in Canada and around the world. This workshop aims at attracting founding partners of CCInnovations, special guests, and construction academics to address the following objectives: -Identify key challenge areas in the industry where pragmatic solutions can be found and put to market -Determine the clusters needed to give focus to each of those areas -Establish networks to leverage the expertise necessary to address each of the identified areas -Identification of individuals who could serve on the CCI Technical Council. The workshop will be vital for advancing collaboration between industry and academia, and in fostering further research activities in key areas of concern linked to productivity, profitability, and market expansion.