10.06.24 LONDON, Connected Places Catapult, the UK’s innovation accelerator for cities, transport, and place leadership, today announced that it is set to host i3P, a membership body which brings together powerful organisations from across the infrastructure sector. i3P will transfer to the Catapult from Innovate UK Business Connect, where it was co-created in partnership with industry in 2016.
i3P’s mission is to facilitate impactful collaborative innovation, enabling the UK infrastructure industry to deliver improved and more sustainable infrastructure assets for our society and the UK economy. To date, i3P has been involved in a number of projects across its focus areas of carbon, productivity and safety, these include:
- Helping members to understand how to achieve 10—20% productivity savings through adopting innovations in earthworks;
- Supporting the Environment Agency and other clients to identify and evaluate innovative approaches to upskilling site supervisors on employee mental health;
- Supporting members to speed up their net zero journeys by establishing a low carbon technology accelerator community of practice.
By moving to its new home at the Catapult, i3P and its members will benefit from access to the Catapult’s workforce of over 300 staff with unique innovation expertise gained from across both the public and private sectors. They will also benefit from superb facilities designed to support collaboration and close proximity to the existing communities with links to the infrastructure sector that the Catapult already hosts, including the Digital Twin Hub, Freight Innovation Fund Cluster and 3Ci (the Cities Commission for Climate Investment).
