Details of Grant 

EPSRC Reference:	EP/N508925/1
Title:	Flexible Robotic Assembly Modules for the Built Environment - FRAMBE
Principal Investigator:	Harty, Professor CF
Other Investigators:	Davies, Dr R J
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Department:	Built Environment
Organisation:	University of Reading
Scheme:	Technology Programme
Starts:	01 March 2016	Ends:	31 August 2018	Value (£):	63,114
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EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Manufacturing Construction
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The research undertaken by the University of Reading (UoR) as part of this project focusses on the identification of cultural change requirements to enable flexible manufacturing and FRAMBE to become a viable, mainstream approach to construction activity. It supports the technical and process development activities undertaken across the consortium. Initially, it involves assessments of consortium and supply chain readiness in terms of implementing flexible manufacture techniques, identification of potential social and cultural barriers to implementation and the development of strategies to support this for the pilot projects (WP2 / objective 1). Following this, UoR will monitor and evaluate the pilots, focussing on emerging cultural and working practice change requirements such as required skills, alignment of expectations and integration of practices and process (WP 5 / objective 2). Post-pilot, the research activities will move to proposing new business models and identifying change management steps to enable the necessary cultural change and work practice reconfiguration to mainstream these new ways of working. These may include skills and capability identification, training and mentoring arrangements, incentives and management systems, and leadership approaches to support cultural change (WP 6 / objective 3). UoR will also participate alongside BRE and the rest of the project consortium in the overall evaluation and dissemination of the project's broader outputs to construction sector, policy and academic audiences as per the dissemination plan and pathways to impact.
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