Professor Brian Collins UCL (convenor of UKCRIC)

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Background Investment in UK national infrastructure over £400B in

next 20 years, and yet Research is at most £250M over next 5 years

Recognition that existing UK research in cities and in national infrastructure is not coordinated, is incomplete in coverage and insufficient in scale

No single point of contact for Commerce, HMG, Cities, LEPs, Innovate UK or International Bodies, or academic community causing inefficiency and loss of learning

Opportunity to bid for consideration in BIS consultation on capital investment in 2014

Rising commercial interest in investment in cities and infrastructure

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Infrastructure Archetypes

The value extracted by services using national infrastructure is insufficient and unsustainable. The cost of ownership of the infrastructure platforms in developed countries is becoming unaffordable.

The vision of UKCRIC is to create and operate a national and international multidisciplinary research programme that addresses both these issues, in a partnership between Industry, Government, Cities and Academia.

It starts with enhanced capital investment in shared facilities in academic institutions but will involve further development of a wide range of multidisciplinary research and teaching programmes.

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UKCRIC Vision

UKCRICBig Picture Synthesis,

Impact DeliveryInternational, Data

Repository, Relationship and

programme coordination

Engineering and Technology Research

Laboratories

Modelling Simulations and

Analysis

Governance Regulation and

Policy

Business Models , Finance and Economics

Systems thinking, Interdependencies

and Resilience

Research clusters

Social science and learning frameworks

Urban Living

Growth &

Development

Domestic

Consumers

Water

savings skills

Electricity

generation

WATERWISE

Etc.

AgricultureCatchment

Sensitive

Farming

biofuels

MTP

Bathroom

Manufactur

ers AssocConstruction

Industry Financial

Objectives

Land mgt

EU

Directives

UK Govt RDAs

Local govt

Efficiency of domestic

water using devices

Trends in

hygiene

Fresh

Water supply

Domestic

consumption

(52%)

Cost of

water

Amenities

& commerce

Showers,

baths, sinks

Hot

weather

Clothes &

dishwashing

Toilets &

bidets

Foul

Water

Detergent

effectiveness

Detergent

biodegradability

Foul

Water

Treatment

Hosepipe

use

Building

Control

Availability

of

inefficient

appliances

Industrial

Water Use

Cost

reduction

New

technology

Abstracted

water

Water

meters

Fish farms,

& cress

Domestic

Leakage

(6%)

(23%)

(48%)Water co

Leakage

(17%)

(12%) (28%)(10%)

governance

supply

demand

Water

footprinting

Procurement &

supply chain

standards

Consumer

demand

Droughts

Water

Demand

Mgt

Electricity

demandBuilding

Insulation

Bottled water

sales

Water

bottles to

waste

Water -Demand

Incident in East BarnetMany residents in north London who had their gas cut off have also lost their electricity after heaters they were given overloaded supplies.About 750 homes in East Barnet are still without gas, three days after it was cut off.And EDF energy said about 180 customers have been without electricity since 2030 GMT on Tuesday.

A spokeswoman for the National Grid said water from a burst main got into the gas pipes, cutting off the flow.More than 3,000 cooking and heating appliances have been distributed to the affected households.And about 150 gas engineers from across the country have gone to Barnet to attempt to get the homes reconnected by Christmas Day. They have already restored supplies to 980 properties.

An EDF Energy spokeswoman said: "Following damage to National Grid's gas mains a number of electric fires have been distributed to residents inEast Barnet who were left without heating."The significantly higher demand on the local electricity network has damaged some of EDF Energy's equipment and interrupted power supplies."EDF is asking customers to use only essential electricity appliances and switch off any non-essential appliances as National Grid carries out its repairs.

It has also "reconfigured the electricity network to make it more robust to help with the extra demand placed on it by the significant increase in the use of electric heaters".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8431654.stm

UCL Adelaide 18/03/2014

Current position Science case internationally peer reviewed (twice) in January

2015–judged as world class 53 external letters of support Outline business case confirmed in March 2015 by BIS and HMT Was announced in Budgets of 18 March and 10 July 2015,

contingent on business case approval Up to £138 Million from government – total aimed at in CSR

period is greater than £400 Million with external funding and research grants

13 universities, coordination (CN) at UCL, inclusive for new members, attractive for other research proposals

Business case approved by BIS/HMT and announced 25/11/2015 Confirmed in Science funding 2016 to 2021 in March 2016 Commercial and International partners now being sought

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Next steps

Conversations have commenced with Industry, Cities, InnovateUK and Catapults, Professional Institutions particularly RAEng and ICE, IET, and with some government departments and city groups in order to achieve more matched funding and engagement.

Proposals for modelling facility, data repository and coordination node are being developed and refined

Discussion with BIS/HMG/EPSRC officials ongoing Conversations with RCUK proceeding to determine how to

start up UKCRIC CN being formed Research proposals being formed through workshops

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