FUTURE CITIES CATAPULT CORE DELIVERY PROGRAMME
Not Energy Related
PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Computer Science and Informatics)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Architecture and the Built Environment)
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES (Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences)
Systems Analysis related to energy R&D (Energy modelling)
Future Cities Catapult
The Future Cities Catapult helps UK businesses create integrated products and services that meet the future needs of the world's cities.
Cities are powerful engines of productivity but they face enormous challenges from a changing climate, population growth, shifting demographics and the ever growing demand for resources.
As future cities compete to deliver a thriving economy and increased quality of life with a reduced environmental footprint, there is a rapidly growing market for innovative solutions that integrate and optimise their major systems whilst managing the downsides.
We estimate that by 2030 there will be a 200bn Pound global market annually for integrated city systems, covering functions such as health, energy, water, waste, communications, buildings and transport.
The UK is well positioned to exploit this growing market. We have world-leading companies in project management, engineering, architecture, energy and transport systems, communications and the digital economy, finance, legal and insurance. Our ability to bring together the cluster of companies needed to design, finance, risk manage and execute large infrastructure projects makes the UK a major global centre for such projects.
The Future Cities Catapult will help UK businesses to develop high-value, integrated urban solutions which we are then able to sell to the rest of the world.
It will create the technical capability to achieve new levels of systems integration. It will also join business, city governments and academia in a unique collaboration to better facilitate and enable businesses to develop products and services for this emerging market. The Catapult's three initial capabilities will be the Future Cities Laboratory, Future Cities Open Platform and Future Cities Financing.No related datasets
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