Innovative Design Lab Launch

Wed, 15 Apr 2015 13:56:00 BST

The Innovative Design Lab Launch Event was held on the 12th of May 2015 at the 3M Buckley Innovation Centre. Please follow this link for an agenda of the event. The event included discussions around the role of research in design and its importance to support improvements in industry practices.

Industrial and practitioner presenters discussed the impact of previous and ongoing research on the product design and Built Environment fields. Client perceptions on the innovations that academic research can provide to change business in a positive way were discussed.

Professor Duane Passman and Derek Drysdale presented excellent examples of how academic research have helped the management and design task to become more efficient when implemented according to lean thinking.

Professor Carlos Formoso, Professor Glenn Ballard, Professor Miroslav Skibniewski and Professor Ghassan Aouad discussed the fundamentals of current research projects, highlighting some of the current challenges in research and innovation.

The contribution of the expertise of Trond Bolviken from Veidekke and Martin Simpson from Arup, highlight the need for research developments to connect theory and practice aligned to information technologies (i.e. BIM – Building Information Modelling).

The event provided an opportunity to establish new relations and extend existing partnerships. The research centre focuses on enabling collaborations between industry and academia, the launch event has been a successful means to initiate such collaborations.

The slides used by the presenters can be found here:

Practice and Research: A Client Perspective - Prof Duane Passman (1MB)

Target Value Delivery - Prof Glenn Ballard (1.7MB)

The Art and Science of Doing Research - Prof Ghassan Aouad (1.5MB)

IDL Launch Agenda

Download the launch flyer for speaker information‌

11.00am	Welcome Professor Mike Kagioglou
11.05am	IDL Vision Professor Patricia Tzortzopoulos
11.10 - 11.40am	Practice and research - a Client Perspective The 3Ts project at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Professor Duane Passman, Director of 3Ts at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust
11.40am - 12.10pm	Modeling value generation in social housing projects Professor Carlos Formosos, UFRGS, Brazil
12.10 - 1.00pm	Lunch
1.00 - 1.30pm	Target Value Design - What it is/Where it came from/What it does Professor Glenn Ballard, Director of the Project Production Systems Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, USA
1.30 - 2.00pm	Engineering Creativity in Construction and Project Management: from Ancient Past to Distant Future Professor Miroslaw Skibiniewski, University of Maryland, USA
2.00 - 2.30pm	Coffee break
2.30 - 3.00pm	Highways England - How we have deployed lean thinking and saved over £120m by aiming for conscious competence across our supply chain Derek Drysdale, Highways Agency, UK
3.00 - 3.20pm	The art and science of doing research Professor Ghassan Aouad, President of Applied Science University, Bahrain and President of the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB). Please note this talk will be delivered via the internet
3.20 - 4.00pm	Panel Discussion: creating impact: collaboration between industry and academia Involving speakers and industrial guests, Trond BBølviken, Director at Veidekke Entreprenør AS, Norway. Martin Simpson, Associate Director at Arup, UK. Christine Pasquire, Professor of Lean Project Management at Nottingham Trent University