Salford Centre for Research and Innovation
Salford Centre for Research & Innovation(SCRI)'s research focus encompasses the creation of value for the widest range of built environment stakeholders. SCRI's mission is to be a leading multidisciplinary research centre in the built and human environment nationally and internationally, in order to deliver a construction industry that is valued by society.
SCRI's themes are Procuring Value, Seamless Delivery of Value and Realising Value in Use with an integrating activity of research exploitation and knowledge exchange focussed in the sectors of Health, Education and Housing.
Procuring Value
This theme focuses on the processes that define and deliver value within the pervading competitive and cultural environment. Two related, but not mutually exclusive, concepts are the starting point for analysis namely - sustainability and value.
Seamless Delivery of Value
This theme focuses on the seamless design, production and delivery of assets and services in the built environment.
Realising Value in Use
This theme focuses on the built environment as consumed by users within a societal perspective including social and economic dimensions.
Contact
Professor Mike Kagioglou
Centre Director
E m.kagioglou@salford.ac.uk
http://www.scri.salford.ac.uk/
The Centre is particularly interested in receiving PhD research proposals in the following areas:
- Lean Construction
- Process improvement
- Construction IT
- Building Information Modelling
- Procurement
- Supply Chain
- School Design
- Low energy housing
- Construction economics
- Healthcare design
- Construction innovation
Projects
Organisation and Management of Construction Working Commission
To stimulate, facilitate and communicate research and innovation, stressing the integration essential for successful innovation in a complex environment.
Standardisation of e-Learning in Construction
This project is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) under the First Grant Scheme.
The project introduces an innovative approach that aids educators to rebuild the learning components of multimedia learning tools by producing an online library of sharable learning objects that are interoperable, transparent and can be integrated within various computer based applications.
Women in North West Construction SMEs
The Women in North West Construction SMEs project aims to understand the contextual and specific issues which create barriers to the attraction, retention and development of high calibre professional women in senior positions in small construction companies in the North West region of England. Appropriate and high leverage guidance and best practice on eliminating these barriers, as well amplifying opportunities, will be identified.
