Construction Innovation Centre (CIC)

The CIC’s mission is to provide breakthrough research, education, and training that directly benefit Canada’s construction industry and lead to the sustainable and economic development of our built environment and a competitive advantage for the Canadian construction industry. The CIC creates new opportunities for collaboration between various research and industry areas, opening the doors to the potential for fostering discovery and innovation across all sectors of the construction industry in Alberta and Canada at large. The CIC’s high-impact research projects seek to identify industry needs and provide a unified platform for solutions to construction industry problems. The CIC’s current top priorities of research applications are. Research conducted by CIC members will adopt innovative and technology-based approaches to these areas through the use of Automation, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Systems and Data Integration, Simulation Modeling, and Visualization.