Questions from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
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Building safety – social and behavioural issues
What factors can lead to poor building industry compliance within the regulatory regime? And what is effective in motivating industry to comply (including in relation to energy efficiency)?
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, 2022
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Technological change and data
What are the barriers to the building industry investing in better data management (generating information, saving it, and making it accessible) and how can these be addressed? What sorts of government incentives/interventions are effective to achieve digital transformation of the building industry?
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, 2022
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Building safety – technical issues
What does evidence from other countries tell us about technical building safety issues, e.g. the key points of failure resulting in fire spread and/or risk of structural collapse in high rise residential buildings?
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, 2022
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The regulatory regime
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?
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, 2022
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The regulatory regime
In terms of product testing, what evidence exists for ways in which designers can effectively test and evidence whether combinations of products forming ‘systems’ are safe (e.g. using digital modelling)? What is proportionate and feasible? What requirements could be placed on manufacturers to support designers when putting a system together?
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, 2022
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The regulatory regime
How should we measure whether the overall system enables redress if things go wrong? Are there effective routes for residents/leaseholders/others to be compensated for historic and new defects? And for those who design/build defective premises to be held to account?
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, 2022
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The regulatory regime
How should we measure the overall effectiveness of the regulatory regime? What evidence is there to show what an effective regulatory body looks like? How is the impact of regulatory interventions best evaluated, and what factors are key to it succeeding?
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, 2022