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.
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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Asbestos is a naturally occurring fibrous mineral with extraordinary tensile strength & excellent resistance to heat & chemicals, making it an attractive building material. It was used extensively up to 1999 befo...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: GREENWALL ENVIROMENTAL EVOLUTION LIMITED
The project aims to develop a portable, cost-effective, real-time asbestos detection device that can immediately detect whether asbestos is present in any building or material, which would fully answer the question.
To develop an innovative Artificial Intelligence tool for asbestos management in buildings. Clients will benefit from reduced cost, increased accuracy and compliance, and reduced ongoing risk....
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: University of Portsmouth
The project aims to develop an innovative Artificial Intelligence tool for asbestos management in buildings, which could partially answer the question by reducing cost, increasing accuracy and compliance, and reducing ongoing risk.
Asbestos is a hazardous material the use of which was banned across Europe in 1999\. Asbestos still accounts for about 5,000 deaths a year in the UK. Currently all asbestos that is removed from buildings around the world...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: THERMAL RECYCLING (UK) LIMITED
The project aims to identify the best use of treated material from denatured asbestos, but does not directly address the question of asbestos remaining in the built environment, disturbance rate, or industry trends.