The United Kingdom’s National Platform for the Built Environment was launched in summer 2005. Its mission is to significantly increase the level of business-led research applicable to the built environment and to create a powerful voice to enable the industry to establish a strategic research agenda and influence the regulatory environment.
The National Platform has close links with the European Construction Technology Platform. It seeks to influence the EC’s research funding calls under FP7 in order to ensure that the UK built environment industry successfully accesses the funding being made available for European research.
The National Platform will also influence and access national research funding. The National Platform has evolved from CRISP and nCRISP and will build upon the principles and work of these groups. It is an industry-led initiative that aims to engage a wider group of key stakeholders including academia and the research community at large.