Building standards: What evidence is available to improve the safety and standard of
buildings and people in or about buildings to inform the evaluation of the Building
Regulations and the associated guidance?
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
Get in touch with hsecsa@hse.gov.uk
Source
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Related UKRI funded projects
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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 focuses on AI-enabled bio-safety assessment for building design in pandemic conditions, directly addressing the safety and standard of buildings in relation to health risks.
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AI-Enabled Design Diagnostics and Optimisation System for Mould Prevention (AI-DOMP)
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Why might this be relevant?
The project addresses mould prevention in building design, which is related to safety and standard of buildings, but does not cover the broader aspects of the question.
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Health Effects of Modern Airtight Construction: Follow-on funding
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Why might this be relevant?
The project addresses the health impacts of modern airtight construction, which is partially relevant to improving the safety and standard of buildings.