Professor Ray Levitt, CRGP Director, was invited to present a keynote lecture at a NSF Workshop held at the University of Illinois on July 8-10, 2009, to describe our CRGP Collaboratory model as an exemplar for international academic-industry-government collaborative research. Other presenters at this International Workshop included Wayne Crew, Executive Director of the Construction Industry Institute, Robert Tener, Director of the Charles Pankow Foundation, and Stanford alumnus, Dr. Keith Hampson, Director of the Cooperative Research Centre on Construction Innovation at Queensland University of Technology in Australia. CRGP's unique global collaboratory model was the focus of a great deal of interest and discussion at the workshop. We received an expression of Interest from CRC Construction Innovation in Australia to be collaboratory partner in Australia for research and outreach on PPP delivery of social and civil infrastructure, an area in which Australia has a great deal of experience that we could draw on.

Posted by levitt at July 9, 2009 8:49 PM