Data-Centric Engineering programme
Bringing together world-leading academic institutions and major industrial partners from across the engineering sector, to address new challenges in data-centric engineering.
Safer sustainable infrastructure
Discover how Lloyd's Register Foundation is ensuring critical infrastructure is safe, resilient and fit for purpose to meet the changing needs of society.
79%
79%
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UNEP estimate that infrastructure is responsible for 79% of all greenhouse gas emissions.
Our climate is changing.
Higher temperatures, rising sea levels, and more frequent severe weather patterns all expose vulnerabilities in our infrastructure systems. AI and autonomy will disrupt how we design, build and operate critical infrastructure. And the urgent technical, social and physical changes needed to successfully decarbonise industry pose a significant threat to people’s safety.
Lloyd’s Register Foundation’s mission is to ensure that critical infrastructure is adapted to be resilient, safe and sustainable for years to come. Working with partners to ensure we maximise the benefits of emerging technologies, and putting the safety of people at the heart of advances in big data.
Our work is helping decarbonise maritime trade and generate clean energy from the oceans, whilst championing whole systems thinking throughout the engineering sector.
Explore our work in this area below.
Help us make a difference
29
29
Live safer sustainable infrastructure grants.
7
7
Countries receiving funding in this area.
£78m
£78m
Current value of grant portfolio in this area.
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Making safety tech work: new framework guides adoption of industrial safety technologies
Cambridge Industrial Innovation Policy, in collaboration with the Global Initiative for Industrial Safety (GIFIS), has released a new white paper to improve how organisations identify and adopt technologies for industrial safety.
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Securing our oceans: challenges and opportunities for autonomous maritime vehicles
With 90% of global goods transported by sea, maritime efficiency is vital to the world's economy. AI and autonomous vessels offer exciting opportunities to cut emissions and improve shipping, but these technologies bring significant cybersecurity risks that must be addressed to ensure safe, trustworthy maritime operations.
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Supporting road safety and health messaging in Kenya
With support from Lloyd's Register Foundation's small grants initiative, international development organisation Transaid launched the Madereva Salama Zaidi campaign, combining road safety education with accessible health services - reaching thousands of drivers with practical, life-saving support across Kenya.
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Expanding the Innovative Engineering Curriculum: Scaling Safety, Sustainability and Regional Leadership Across Africa
Through a new partnership with University College London, and supported by Lloyd’s Register Foundation, The South African Innovative Engineering Curriculum (IEC) is scaling a systemic model of curriculum transformation that integrates safety and sustainability across disciplines, institutions, and regions.
Safer sustainable infrastructure
Critical infrastructure is under increasing pressure from ageing systems, climate impacts, and accelerating technological change. Lloyd’s Register Foundation works with global partners to strengthen safety, reliability, and resilience by supporting evidence‑based solutions that protect the people who design, operate, and depend on these essential systems.
Jan Przydatek Director of Technologies
Focusing on the increasing deployment of cyber-physical systems, the scaling of sustainable assets and the adaptation of infrastructures to the effects of climate change, our strategy targets safer outcomes for all.
