NSAR’s own Neil Robertson contributed to Rail Technology Magazine’s March 2021 issue. Neil points out the poor track record of large transport infrastructure projects, delivering late, over budget, failing to secure the benefits expected, or cancelled after a significant investment. TIES Living Lab will demonstrate… Read More »Living Lab contribution to our green future
Social Profit Calculator announces their proud involvement in TIES Living Lab. Describing Living Lab as a strategic, scalable and sector wide approach intends to be a catalyst for real cultural change, shifting focus within infrastructure delivery decision-making from the costs of construction to a greater… Read More »SPC announce involvement in the Living Lab
numerous advances in products, processes and digital technologies have a part to play in achieving the scale of reduction in capital carbon that is required. These three, highly collaborative projects each provide the ideal environment to pinpoint where advances can be made and adopted straight… Read More »Opportunities to Drive Down Carbon in Construction
The AVA bridge team demonstrated the future of manufactured infrastructure once again in an article with New London. The AVA bridge consortium within the Living Lab have continued to push the usual limitations of a construction based approach in order to deliver a system that… Read More »Accessible Station Bridges
“Ava” is a new concept in footbridges being developed via an innovative collaboration between the railway, architectural, construction and manufacturing industries. The first glimpses of Ava and its many benefits are revealed in this new video [link]. Small and medium sized railway stations are the… Read More »Introducing Ava, the adaptable bridge set to revolutionise local station access
Pushing the pace on digitisation and innovation to drive better, faster and greener delivery of infrastructure, Costain has worked together with key partner SAP as well as a consortium of industry leading enterprises, such as Transport for London (TfL), East West Rail Company, HS2 and… Read More »Weaving a New Data Fabric for Infrastructure
Today UWE announced their involvement with TIES Living Lab. A team of researchers from UWE led by Professor Lamine Mahdjoubi will work in; artificial intelligence data mining, advanced logistics, conversational artificial intelligence and quality assurance areas in the living lab. Receiving £1.2 million to complete… Read More »UWE Bristol to drive innovation in consortium as part of new multi-million-pound consortium
A new programme designed to drive innovation across major infrastructure projects in the UK, has been launched by Minister of State, Andrew Stephenson. The ‘Transport Infrastructure Efficiency Strategy Living Lab’ (TIES Living Lab) is a transformative collaboration aimed at harnessing the vast quantities of intelligence… Read More »TIES Living Lab driving innovation across major infrastructure projects
On 15th June NSAR hosted the launch event of the TIES Living Lab Programme. The event welcomed Andrew Stephenson, MP and Minister of State for Transport, along with Mike Hardaker from Transport for London, Keith Waller from the Construction Innovation Hub, Sam Stacey from Innovate… Read More »Living Lab Launch Event