What are the wider costs of a major building safety incident? What might the impacts be on undermining resident, insurer and bank confidence in the construction industry and in the built environment? And what are the consequences of this e.g.in terms of property valuations, or ability to secure a mortgage?
Background
Key areas here are developing our understanding of the drivers of behaviour across the industry, and the benefits and potential risks that technological change may bring.
Next steps
The lead contacts are: Lesley Smith, Senior Principal Research Officer, Analysis, Research and Co-ordination Unit, Analysis and Data Directorate: [email protected] and David Hughes, Head of the Chief Scientific Adviser’s office: [email protected].
Source
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Related UKRI funded projects
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IMPROVING DESIGN FOR SAFETY: A WEB-BASED DESIGN FOR SAFETY CAPABILITY MATURITY INDICATOR (DFS-CMI) TOOL FOR THE CONSTRUCTION SECTOR
The global construction sector is estimated to account for 100,000 fatalities annually and about 30-40% of all fatal occupational injuries. In the UK, although the construction sector accounts for only approximately 5% o...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: University of Manchester
Why might this be relevant?
The project is related to construction safety and could provide insights on the wider costs of a major building safety incident.
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Challenging RISK: Achieving Resilience by Integrating Societal and Technical Knowledge
This project is concerned with socially integrated mitigation of multiple structural risks in the urban environment, with a focus on the linked risks of earthquake and fire. Fire is the largest contributor to building da...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on multi-hazard risk mitigation in the urban environment, which could provide insights on the impacts of a major building safety incident.
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The Building Safety Application
ONE Creative's innovation will embed core Building Information Modelling (BIM), information management, facilities' management (FM) and IoT (Internet of Things) capability within a central, cloud-based information manage...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: ONE CREATIVE ENVIRONMENTS LIMITED
Why might this be relevant?
The project addresses the wider costs of a major building safety incident and its impacts on resident, insurer, and bank confidence in the construction industry.