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CIRIA’s research is member-driven, and spans the separate market sectors of buildings and facilities, water and utilities and transportation infrastructure. Working both within and across these market sectors, the themes of work cover wide remits topical to construction, such as technical issues, legislation and regulation, training, management and economics. While much of the work benefits from competitively-won public sector funding, CIRIA maintains its provision of ‘club-funded’ projects aimed at building understanding between contributors in key areas of concern, such as Knowledge Management and Performance Indicators of Design. In addition to a published output (in the form of design guides, training manuals, etc in both hard copy and electronic format), CIRIA also provides training seminars and workshops based on the results of its project work.
The 2002 Fairclough review of construction research reported a high industry regard for CIRIA, ranking it highest of all research providers on polls of both industry users and public sector funders of construction research. Further confirmation of CIRIA’s worth was provided by the results of the 2002/3 Partners in Innovation competition of the DTI, in which CIRIA was awarded more than 25% of the entire funding available – sufficient to enable a forward research workload of around £5.5m.
Typically, each project is funded by a number of stakeholders which often include core members and government as well as other private sector companies. A steering group comprising key industry individuals, including funders.