DESIGNING A SAFER BUILT ENVIRONMENT: A Complete Guide To The Management Of Design Risk

John Carpenter

Mayo de 2021       Páginas: 248

Código 9266      ISBN/EAN: 9780727765826

CONTENIDO:

Designing a Safer Built Environment addresses long-standing uncertainties and challenges faced by designers, highlighted by recent events such as the Grenfell Tower fire, by providing a clear methodology for design risk management. Applicable across projects of all sizes, the book shows how designers can effectively manage risks to safety and health over a structure’s life-cycle whilst also raising standards. Importantly, it is also written for those professionals who manage, oversee, or have a wider interest in the consequences of design work. 

Coverage includes

• a clear methodology for the Designer duties in the 2015 CDM Regulations 
• influence of contract, time, and cost on design risk management decisions 
• managing the risk of structural failure during construction and over the life of the structure 
• techniques to facilitate collaboration, and the importance of effective communication 
• wider business benefits to good risk management including the avoidance of civil claims
• incorporating contemporary industry practice into design. 

The book also includes an extensive list of references to further sources of information. 

Designing a Safer Built Environment questions, challenges, informs and explains. It is an essential companion for construction industry designers, and also those with associated responsibilities including Design Managers, Principal Designers, Clients and Contractors.

John Carpenter is a past Fellow of IStructE and of IOSH, and has majored on risk management for most of his career. He is a past Secretary to SCOSS, during which time the CROSS scheme was launched; he was also the founding Secretary of the Temporary Works Forum (TWf) and is the technical author of PAS8811:2017. He has undertaken several research commissions for HSE, and has published and spoken widely on risk issues, in the UK and internationally.

INDICE EXTRACTADO:

Part I The challenge of design risk in construction
01 Introduction
02 The construction industry
03 The legislative background
04 The wider benefits and lessons from elsewhere
Conclusions from Part I

Part II Practical guidance on design risk management
05 Responsibility and interest in design-related risk
06 CDM: Regulation 9
07 Risk management in action
08 Structural and geotechnical engineering issues
09 Temporary works
10 Communication
11 Actions

Appendix A: Author’s published work used in this text
Appendix B: Contemporary accepted industry guidance for designers
Appendix C1: Basis of design approach
Appendix C2: Recording the risk management process
Appendix D: Other references relating to risk management issues
Appendix E: ‘Swiss cheese model’: In plain sight