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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.

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UNEP estimate that infrastructure is responsible for 79% of all greenhouse gas emissions.

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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 resilience, 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.

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Live safer sustainable infrastructure grants.

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Countries receiving funding in this area.

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Current value of grant portfolio in this area.

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.

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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.

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Nature-positive Engineering

Providing a framework for traditional engineering approaches to become ecology-inspired from ideation to implementation and delivery.

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Centre for Assuring Autonomy

Advancing safety assurance of autonomous systems, AI, and robotics across the globe.

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Why guidance and standards are key to safely scaling nature-positive solutions

In this blog, Üwe Best, a civil engineer and climate resilience expert with Royal HaskoningDHV, discusses why nature-positive engineering and the integration of nature-based solutions is critical for successful coastal protection and climate adaptation strategies.

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Programme Director - Data-Centric Engineering, The Alan Turing Institute

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Data can support immediate emissions reductions

Adam Sobey, Programme Director for the Data-Centric Engineering programme at The Alan Turing Institute, discusses the urgent need for data-driven solutions to support climate action - and the immediate role data can play in reducing emissions across transport, construction, and agriculture.

 

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Professor John McDermid, Director of the Centre for Assuring Autonomy

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Where next for the AI Opportunities Action Plan?

In this blog, Centre for Assuring Autonomy Director, Professor John McDermid OBE FREng shares six ways the government’s long-awaited AI Opportunities Action Plan can be enhanced to steer its way to success.

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Our experts in this area

Jan Przydatek

Director of Technologies

Jan is Director of Technologies at Lloyd’s Register Foundation and is responsible for the Foundation's activities in enhancing safety through high technical standards.

Chris White

Head of Programme Delivery

Currently serving as Head of Programme Delivery at Lloyd’s Register Foundation, Chris specialises in the operation and financial planning of the grant programmes.

Muntasir Hashim

Programme Manager

Muntasir has a background in Engineering and Materials Science, with extensive experience leading R&D and product development across hardware, software, and semiconductors.