Conquering COVID in Construction – a safe, managed return to site for construction workers

战胜建筑业中的新冠疫情——建筑工人安全、受管理地返回工地

• 批准号: 55828
• 金额: $ 9.54万
• 依托单位: ELECTRONIC MEDIA SERVICES LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Feasibility Studies
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=55828
• 关键词: Conquering; COVID; Construction; safe; managed

The IHS Markit purchasing managers' index for UK construction dropped to 39.3 last month from 52.6 the previous month, the lowest reading in more than 10 years. The UK construction sector employs 2.4m workers many of whom are self-employed and are unable to benefit from the Treasury's Furlough Scheme. The sector is a significant contributor to the UK's economic activity producing about 6 per cent of the country's total economic output.The vision for the project is an easy to use health check and tracking app that will give the worker and their employer a simple red/green check of their ability to work. This would enable the industry to end the lockdown, re-engage the predominately self-employed workforce and restart economic activity in a significant sector.The red/green advice from the app would be based on:1\. Daily self-declared monitoring of general health and especially of any symptoms specific to COVID-19\. These declarations will be performed even when the user is self-isolating.2\. A tracking feature that would record the user's location while at work and who else they have been in contact with (e.g. < 5 metres separation).3\. Alerting when there are too many people too close together.4\. Occupancy of any welfare units, so they can self-time their breaks to minimise unnecessary contacts.5\. Alerting of the user when a co-worker who they have been in contact with is developing symptoms or who has tested positive for COVID-19\.6\. Machine Learning-based algorithm to track the development of symptoms in the workforce.The app would have a dashboard for the employer showing who is currently on-site, real-time hot spots showing where workers are congregating so they can be instructed to disperse, a list of staff who have reported symptoms or have tested positive, a list of staff who should be self-isolating because they may have come into contact with another infected member of staff, potential return dates for self-isolating staff plus a list of staff who have tested positive for antibodies and may be immune to re-infection.Both China and South Korea have demonstrated the benefit of using tracking and contact tracing to reduce the spread of COVID-19\. Therefore, the proposed system can be part of an industry-led approach that will help the global construction sector to safely return to work.The request for Extension Funding will; support trials with end users that will increase the impact and speed to market, fund the development of AI models to improve the accuracy of the locationing capability, fund the evaluation of additional wearable devices to monitor employee vital statistics (temperature, heart rate. etc), allow evaluation “System as a Service” business model and allow productization of the system by partnering with UK manufacturers.

IHS Markit英国建筑业采购经理人指数从上个月的52.6降至39.3，为10多年来的最低阅读。英国建筑业雇佣了240万名工人，其中许多是自雇人士，无法从财政部的休假计划中受益。该行业是英国经济活动的重要贡献者，约占该国经济总产出的6%。该项目的愿景是一个易于使用的健康检查和跟踪应用程序，将为工人及其雇主提供简单的红色/绿色检查他们的工作能力。这将使该行业能够结束封锁，重新吸引主要的自营职业者，并在一个重要部门重新启动经济活动。该应用程序的红/绿色建议将基于：1\。每日自我申报监测一般健康状况，特别是COVID-19特有的任何症状。即使用户是自隔离的，也会执行这些声明。2\。跟踪功能，将记录用户在工作时的位置以及他们与谁接触过（例如< 5米的间隔）。3\.当有太多的人靠得太近时发出警报。占用任何福利单位，因此他们可以自行安排休息时间，以尽量减少不必要的接触。当与用户接触的同事出现症状或COVID-19检测呈阳性时，向用户发出警报。基于机器学习的算法，用于跟踪劳动力中症状的发展。该应用程序将为雇主提供一个仪表板，显示目前谁在现场，实时热点显示工人聚集的地方，以便他们可以指示分散，报告症状或检测呈阳性的员工列表，应自我隔离的工作人员名单，因为他们可能接触过另一名受感染的工作人员，自我隔离员工的可能返回日期，以及对抗体测试呈阳性并可能对重新感染免疫的员工名单。中国和韩国都证明了使用追踪和接触者追踪来减少COVID-19传播的好处。因此，拟议的系统可以成为行业主导办法的一部分，帮助全球建筑业安全地重返工作岗位。支持最终用户的试验，以增加市场的影响和速度，资助人工智能模型的开发，以提高定位能力的准确性，资助评估额外的可穿戴设备，以监测员工的生命统计数据（体温、心率）。等），允许评估“系统即服务”的商业模式，并允许通过与英国制造商合作将系统产品化。