Net Zero innovation: Are there significant implications from carbon reduction for construction workers health and safety and for building safety involving: retrofitting domestic and commercial buildings; constructing, altering or decommissioning high hazard infrastructure / plants; low carbon heat solutions; zero emission vehicles and plant; reduced carbon materials; climate adaption to existing buildings and infrastructure?
Background
To enable strategic and transformative advances in health and safety across the diverse construction sector through technology and innovation and the new opportunities and risks arising from it. To underpin construction and building safety regulatory regimes with evidence-based approaches and enable effective oversight across the whole built environment. To inform standards and guidance development to improve the safety and standard of buildings and develop effective strategies to measure and build competence across the construction and building safety sectors. To ensure that our approach to regulating chemicals and microbial control agents: is effective, efficient and agile, reflecting current and developing scientific understanding and technical knowledge; reinforces our position as an internationally influential regulator; and enables society to derive the benefits of access to safe and sustainable use of chemicals; and ensure there is no harm to workers, bystanders and consumers or unacceptable effects on the environment.
Next steps
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Source
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Related UKRI funded projects
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The project focuses on reducing carbon emissions in the construction industry, which is directly related to the question about the implications of carbon reduction for construction workers health and safety and building safety.
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The project addresses the need for significant reductions in the embodied carbon of construction materials, which is relevant to the question about carbon reduction in construction.
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AI-Enabled Bio-Safety Assessment Tool for Sustainable Building Design in Pandemic Conditions.
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Why might this be relevant?
The project addresses the implications of bio-safety in building design during pandemic conditions, aligning with the question's focus on health and safety in construction.