Digitalisation towards Safety in Construction: The Facilitating Role of Industrialised Construction
Loughborough UniversityLoughborough, United Kingdom
Course overview
This PhD project lies at the intersection of three topics: Occupational Safety and Health (OSH), digital technologies and industrialised construction. Digital4OSH is a research group bringing together researchers and practitioners from Loughborough and across Europe. For several years, the group has been studying the application of digital technologies to the management of OSH in construction.
Despite governmental support to realise broader pre-manufactured value in construction through Industrialised Construction (IC), our understanding of how various organisations operating in this space are leveraging digital technologies to manage building safety risks is limited. This project aligns with the Building Safety Act, and aims to explore how to better maintain a clear ‘golden thread’ of information throughout pre-manufactured construction products’ lifecycle. The PhD project will address an emerging need to explore how various industrialised systems, components, and structures align (or not) with the Building Safety Act.
This will then inform the development of an online platform which records such safety performance using digital tools. One of the core objectives of this project is to enable the benchmarking of organisations and even countries against each other via a web-based platform. The platform also facilitates the sharing and dissemination of best practice reports.
This research would address questions such as: How well are existing practices in line with the Building Safety Act? How can engagement with the use of a platform be incentivised? What data should/can be measured and how can it be visualised?
How can the information within the online platform be aligned to organisational and national business models in the construction industry? 94% of Loughborough’s research impact is rated world-leading or internationally excellent. REF 2021
Key highlights
- Research spans occupational safety and health, digital technologies and industrialised construction
- Join the Digital4OSH group of researchers and practitioners across Europe
- Project aligns with the Building Safety Act and its golden thread
- Develop an online platform recording safety performance with digital tools
- Platform enables benchmarking of organisations and countries against each other
- Explore data measurement, visualisation and incentivising platform engagement
Entry requirements
- Degree: 2:1 — 2:1
Scholarships
Alumni Bursary
10% of tuition fees which will be credited to the student’s tuition fee account.
Up to 10% of feesAlumni Discount
UK students: £1,500 tuition fee discount for one academic year. International students: £3,000 tuition fee discount for one academic year.
Care Leaver's Scholarship
Excellence Scholarships
UK students: £3,000 off tuition fees; International students: £6,000 off tuition fees which will be credited to the student’s tuition fee account.
International Sports Student Postgraduate Bursary
Our International Sports Student Postgraduate Bursary offers a £12,000 tuition fee discount (set against the tuition fees of your chosen postgraduate taught programme ONLY).
Up to £12,000London 10th Anniversary Award
£5,000 off tuition fees.
Up to £5,000Loughborough Business School Scholarship
£1,500 (UK students) and £3,000 (international students) off tuition fees which will be credited to the student’s tuition fee account.
MBA Progress with Purpose Scholarship
50% of tuition fees which will be credited to the student’s tuition fee account.
Up to 50% of feesQatari Ghanim Al-Muftah Excellence Scholarship
Careers this course leads to
- Construction safety researcher
- Health and safety manager
- Digital construction consultant
- Building safety manager
- University lecturer in construction management
- Construction technology specialist
Cost of study
UK/Home: £5,238 | International: £29,500
Admission
Applications are made through AHZ at no cost. Share your transcripts, English test scores and personal statement, and your AHZ Counsellor will review your profile, submit your application to Loughborough University, and guide you through interview, offer, CAS and visa — right up to enrolment.
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