Living and infrastructure
Enhancing safety and standards in the built environment
The Living and Infrastructure theme focuses on enhancing safety and standards in the built environment. The theme addresses:
- Ensuring people feel safe in their homes, workplaces, and surroundings.
- Leveraging evidence from construction and building safety to improve materials, buildings, and overall safety standards.
- Developing a regulatory approach that is fit for purpose and adaptable for the future.
Leadership
- UoM Lead: Meini Su
- HSE Lead: TBC
- HSE Strategic Science Adviser: Mike Wardman
- HSE Science Business Partner: Tracy Read
- HSE ERCL lead: TBC
Theme membership
- Mithila Achintha
- William Collinge
- Glen Cooper
- Gordon Crick (HSE)
- Lee Cunningham
- Alessandro De Rosis
- Rodger Edwards
- Obuks Ejohwomu
- Andre Freitas
- Mojgan Hadi Mosleh
- Jo Harris-Roberts (HSE)
- Kali-Babu Katnam
- Barry Lennox
- Patrick Manu
- Lee Margetts
- Sunny Olutunde Oyadiji
- Alistair Revell
- Matthew Roy
- Meini Su
- Mohd Ahmad Syed
- Jyoti Sinha
- Andrew Weightman
- Yong Wang
- Paul Warren
- Akilu Yunusa-kaltungo
Proposals and submissions
- EPSRC Made Smarter Centre/Hub bid-for cross-cutting research in the area of Digital Manufacturing. Research to cover both technological and societal aspects of the digital manufacturing space.
- Patrick Manu has secured internal funding from MACE to recruit a PhD to study construction 4.0 and Health and Safety. Akilu Yunusa-Kaltungo, Paulo Bartolo and Clara Cheung are part of the supervisory team.
- Awarded the joint Manchester-Melbourne Research Fund 2020 to investigate the confluence of industry 4.0 in construction (i.e., Con 4.0) with occupational safety and health (OSH) in construction.
- Building safety network - EPSRC Network Grant. Neil Bourne, Simon Thurlbeck et al. Collaborative bid led by UoM. Submission date tbc. Proposal development meeting 1 June 2021
- COVID-19 Secure and Biosafe Air Transport (COSBAT) - Redraft of the unsuccessful Cranfield led UKRI application. Submission date and funder TBC
- Floating offshore H&S Network - EPSRC Network grant. Submission date TBC. Presented to Supergen ORE H&S meeting in May 2021.
- Consultancy enquiry from Hudson Contract to look at subcontracting policy in construction sector.
- Innovate UK Smart Grant - graphene in cement to include H&S and technical aspects.
Publications and awards
Publications and articles
- 60 Seconds with…David Glass, Health and Safety Executive
- Delivery of the keynote speech at the recent Institution of Mechanical Engineers event on the topic of competence in the world of inspection, examination and asset integrity – taking the opportunity to highlight the RVI work and the potential for work on Additive Manufacture.
- On Thresholds for Dynamic Strength in Solids
- 4D micro-scale, phase-contrast X-ray imaging and computed tomography of HMX-based polymer-bonded explosives during thermal runaway
- Contributions to Dynamic Behaviour of Materials Professor John Edwin Field, FRS 1936–2020
- The Shock Induced Mechanical Response of the Fluorinated Tri-polymer, Viton B
- 4D synchrotron X-ray microtomography of fracture in nuclear graphite after neutron irradiation and radiolytic oxidation
- The transit to detonation in high explosives
- Advances on mode I fracture testing in brittle and quasi-brittle materials with x-ray tomography
- Material effects on the spallation response of metals and alloys
Awards
- NLP challenge on scholarly discourse and summarisation (Winners)