ER18 Developing the concrete sector's 10-year research roadmap (November 2016)

The CCANZ Research Roadmap project has canvassed the opinions of a number of senior practitioners in the cement and concrete sector and from a wide range of stakeholders through use of a supply chain metaphor.

This paper describes the methodology of the roadmap exercise and highlights an overarching strategy for the coming decade. Further use of the supply chain metaphor to identify plausible scenarios amenable to research projects and their evaluation are also described.

The paper also briefly describes the results of a published literature network analysis that could be used in future to objectively assess the impact of research investment into areas identified as important to the New Zealand cement and concrete sector.

The process adopted has highlighted seven priority project themes and two mechanisms for implementing and supporting long-term research.