Welcome to the IMCRC
The Loughborough University Innovative Manufacturing and Construction Research Centre (IMCRC) operated from the 1 October 2001 to 30 September 2011 and successfully completed over 200 research projects undertaken in collaboration with more than 400 organisations.
Funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences research Council (EPSRC), the purpose of the IMCRC was to provide a focal point for research excellence, collaborate actively with UK businesses and facilitate knowledge transfer and exploitation of research results; making a vital collective contribution to the future of the UK economy and society.
The Centre was one of fifteen UK based Innovative Manufacturing Research Centres (IMRCs) and the largest, in terms of number of academics, size of grant and breadth of work undertaken.
The IMCRC covered a range of research issues from design, processes and materials to business and management and included manufacturing, construction, systems engineering and computer science. Many of the projects brought academics from different areas together to investigate a problem and the cross-disciplinary research approach became a major advantage in such a large centre.
The new EPSRC Centres for Innovative Manufacturing and Loughborough's involvement in the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) are a great legacy of the IMCRC, which will enable Loughborough academics to build on their IMCRC successes.
Details of the Centre's research are available via these web pages and directly from the academic staff who have contributed to the Centre's activities.
