The transforming construction challenge was funded under the UKRI Challenge Fund to accelerate the modernisation of how we deliver buildings in the UK.
Learn about the investments and impact from the £170 million, 4-year programme. The outputs will help others engage with change underway across the sector.
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Establishing a narrative
To deliver real system change across construction, a narrative needs to be established.
All projects resulting from the challenge, and their outcomes, have been detailed as stories in our catalogue.
Together these stories describe a coherent narrative of a sector moving together to deliver value rather than cheapness.
This resource can be used to build new stories from the various elements to continue to show how positive change can happen.
Read case studies from our transforming construction stories catalogue.
Progress and achievements
The transforming construction challenge brochure details all of our investments and their progress at the end of 2021.
This includes all:
- collaborative research and development
- demonstrators
- academic research.
Independent evaluation
In February 2022 an independent report on the impact of the transforming construction challenge was published.
This evaluation by Frontier Economics details evidence collected on the challenge performance against its original objectives.
Research and development centres
Learn more about the work of our two principle research and development centres:
They were established to work with sector stakeholders and put the ecosystem in place for a new system delivering net zero buildings using digitally-driven platform processes with greater assurance.
Meet the team
Delivering the transforming construction challenge has required a diverse and energetic team.
Meet the team: transforming construction challenge.
Last updated: 13 February 2023