We accelerate innovation in the built environment, helping to create sustainable buildings, smart infrastructure, and inclusive urban spaces across the UK.

Our projects focus on decarbonising the built environment, harnessing digital technologies, and enabling connected, resilient communities.

Without this programme (Homes for Healthy Ageing), we would not have achieved the range of learning we did. It’s been an opportunity to change the way we deliver homes in the future, so it’s exciting to see how we can drive the next stage of learning and delivery.

Graham Scanlan

Assistant Director of Housing & Communities, Sunderland City Council

By 2050

of households will live in homes already built

To meet net zero targets

need retrofitting each year

Our focus areas

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Sustainable buildings and infrastructure

We support the development of energy-efficient, inclusive, and safe buildings and infrastructure. Our work includes decarbonising the built environment, improving lifecycle management, and promoting efficient and healthy homes. 

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Urban design & place making

We help create connected, thriving urban spaces through innovative planning, design, and collaborative co-creation. Our focus is on aligning spatial planning with infrastructure development to unlock investment and improve quality of life.

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Digital Construction 

Digital Construction International Programme (DCIP) provides strategic and technical expertise to support the adoption of digital construction across national and local infrastructure organisations, public policy units, programme teams, and individual projects.

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Driving collaborative innovation for Infrastructure 

Explore how the Infrastructure Industry Innovation Partnership (i3P) facilitates collaboration between infrastructure operators, supply chains, and innovators to increase productivity, improve safety and reduce carbon emissions.

‘Who isn’t in the room?’ Public realm developers challenged to better understand communities

A panel of public realm experts underlined that better engagement is key to creating sustainable, flourishing places.

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DIATOMIC

DIATOMIC (Digital InnovAtion TransfOrMatIve Change) is designed to accelerate place-based innovation in the West Midlands, harnessing the region’s existing international relationships through a series of targeted initiatives.
Clean Futures
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Clean Futures

Clean Futures is supporting the West Midlands’ transport sector as it transitions from fossil fuels to clean technologies. The programme is also driving regional economic growth by accelerating the route to market for SMEs in the sector.
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Innovation Twins Programme

The Department for Transport (DfT), in collaboration with Connected Places Catapult, recognises the transformative potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in shaping the future of the UK’s transport system.

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