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Businesses are invited to bid in two competitions worth up to £36 million, funding collaborative R&D and demonstrator projects.
Both competitions focus on modern methods of construction, digital and whole-asset performance. UK Research and Innovation is providing the funding through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund’s Transforming Construction Challenge.
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest up to £10 million in UK businesses undertaking collaborative research and development projects. Projects should go beyond the state-of-the-art in improving productivity, quality and performance of the UK construction sector.

The project must focus on one or more of the following themes:
To lead a project an organisation must:
The proposed project’s total eligible costs must be between £150,000 and £1.5 million.
UK businesses can also apply for a share of up to £26 million for practical, demonstrator projects in modern methods of construction, digital and whole-life asset performance.
This competition aims to invest in approximately 10 world-leading practical demonstrators. They must establish improvements in productivity, quality and performance of the UK construction sector.
Demonstrators are the application of approaches, deployed at scale, that aim to improve all aspects of a built assets lifecycle.
These will include:
Both competitions open on 28 August 2019 and close on 30 October 2019 at midday.
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