£50K Industry Call for Construction Automation Solutions
Innovation centre offers funding and support in quest to unlock the industry’s
next big innovation
Construction
Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC) is calling on Scotland’s construction
businesses to put forward their proposals for how automation could be
used to increase efficiency or improve quality, with the chance for five
businesses to receive up to £10,000 worth of funding and support to
test their ideas.
CSIC helps construction related businesses
to innovate, collaborate and grow by matching innovation requirements
with business support and academic specialists. Now, in partnership with
the Structural Timber Association, it is seeking Scottish companies
which have innovative ideas on how the offsite manufacturing cell in
CSIC’s Innovation Factory – which can complete a range of timber framing
processes - could be used.
Up to five ‘winners’ will be chosen
to receive a mix of funding and support up to a value of £10,000,
including access to CSIC’s network of academic partners, in-house
technical specialists and 35,000 sq. ft. Innovation Factory in
Hamilton. The Innovation Factory contains 16 pieces of state-of-the-art
prototyping and design equipment, including an industrial robot, a
collaboration robot, a multi-material 3D printer, a CLT vacuum press,
and 4 Edge Planer.
Further details about the innovation call
will be available at a free industry event to discuss the future of
automation in construction, which will be hosted at CSIC’s Innovation
Factory on 29 May. The programme will include a demonstration of the
Innovation Factory’s offsite manufacturing cell and talks from SP
Technology and CCG.
Fiona MacDonald, business relationship
manager at CSIC said: “This is a chance for construction companies to
unleash the next big innovation and directly improve their own bottom
line by testing out their ideas for new automated processes which will
help them operate more efficiently.
“The normal costs of
exploring new ideas with state-of-the art equipment can be seen as
inaccessible, but this innovation call, accompanied by the support
available from CSIC, provides companies with a fantastic opportunity
develop new ideas, improve efficiencies and gain a competitive
advantage.”
Interested parties should submit a short outline of their ideas by no later than 22 June 2018.
Successful applicants will then be invited to further develop their ideas through a full proposal.
Find out more about the innovation call and application process by contacting Fiona MacDonald, fmacdonald@cs-ic.org
To register for the Digital Construction: Automation event on 29 May, visit https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-construction-automation-tickets-43303697525