Business
The School of the Built Environment has a long and proud tradition of engagement with business, policy makers and the wider community. Primarily this work is conducted through our enterprise centres, but enterprise and engagement is ingrained in all of our teaching and research activities.
The Centre for Construction Innovation hosts best practice seminars and offers research, grant-funded projects and consultancy in many areas of the construction sector with a particular focus on performance measurement through KPIs and its KPI engine and value procurement. CCI clients include government departments, regional development agencies, local authorities, developers, contractors, supply chains and SMEs.
Construct IT is a members network that co-ordinates and promotes research into IT in construction. The Centre produces how-to guides and benchmarking studies, and runs meetings and an innovation network.
The Centre for Applied Archaeology has unrivalled access to a wide range of skills from planning and surveying, to conservation and 3D visualisation. The Centre’s professional seminars have an emphasis on industrial archaeology and the built environment to maximise this access to specialist expertise and resource. The Centre’s community archaeology projects engage the local and wider community in their heritage. Follow their work with the University of Salford archaeology blog.
The THINKlab is a futuristic and spacious research environment with state-of-the-art facilities. The space facilitates research related to Information and Communication Technologies, providing answers to challenges faced by industry, commerce and the community.
The Open BIM Learning Xchange has been established to work with the UK Government and construction industries (AECOO) to catalyse the transformation required and facilitate updated and new business models, organisational structures and operating principles that draw on collaboration through the use of Open BIM, increasing quality and value and reducing cost and waste.
In addition to these centres, the School has a number of mechanisms through which we can work with industry to jointly build a better future:
Continuous Professional Development (CPD): the School works with the Salford Professional Development unit to deliver a range of industry focussed CPD events that enable professionals to keep up-to-date with the latest industry practices.
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships: Businesses often have innovative ideas but often lack the internal expertise or funding to make it happen. The KTP scheme enables the School to work with businesses to help you reap the rewards that a longer-term investment in Knowledge Transfer can offer.
