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Construction Innovation Hub
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The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) is
inspiring Great British manufacturing globally by
developing innovative manufacturing technologies
and processes in partnership with industry,
academia and other institutions.
Founded in 2010, and one of the High Value
Manufacturing Catapult centres, the MTC has some
of the most advanced manufacturing equipment in
the world enabling it to provide a specialised
environment for the development and demonstration
of innovation to be used on an industrial scale.
BRE is an international, multi-disciplinary, building
science organisation with a mission to improve
buildings and infrastructure through research and
knowledge generation, and their application. BRE
employs over 600 people in the UK, China, India,
the Middle East and the USA who are committed to
building a better world together.
Our products, services, standards and qualifications
are applied in over 80 countries enabling our
customers to make a positive difference to the built
environment. We are owned by a charity called the
BRE Trust, which delivers one of the largest
programmes of built environment education and
research for the public good.
The Centre for Digital Built Britain is a partnership
between the Department of Business, Energy &
Industrial Strategy and the University of Cambridge
to deliver a smart digital economy for infrastructure
and construction for the future and transform the UK
construction industry’s approach to the way we plan,
build, maintain and use our social and economic
infrastructure.