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:
At this time not only is there a global pandemic for the novel coronavirus COVID-19, at time of writing this application there is the 11th outbreak of Ebola being fought in Africa, Europe is recovering from a 3-year outb...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: DATA INNOVATION.AI LTD
The project is focused on assessing bio-safety risks in buildings, which is directly related to improving the safety and standard of buildings.
The aftermath of the tragic death of Awaab Ishak because of prolonged exposure to mould in Rochdale Boroughwide Housing flats in 2020 increases the level of awareness of the health risks posed by mould. At the time, heal...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: BUILDECO LTD
Partially relevant as it focuses on AI-enabled design for mould prevention, but does not address overall building safety standards.
The way that buildings have been designed and constructed has changed rapidly in recent years, driven to a significant extent by the need to meet challenges of climate change and energy costs, but also to reduce costs an...
Funded by: AHRC
Lead research organisation: University of Strathclyde
The project addresses the health impacts of modern airtight construction, which is partially relevant to improving the safety and standard of buildings.