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Consultants are being called upon to help identify key threats to the UK鈥檚 built environment and establish a risk rating system for buildings.

Loughborough University has launched a project aimed at 鈥渋ncreasing the resilience of the built environment to natural and human-induced hazards鈥�.

The two-year project aims to create a 鈥榟azard mitigation protocol toolkit鈥� that would be used to judge, on a scale of one to five, a building鈥檚 potential to cope with risk.

The study was sparked following a series of incidents, including the Buncefield oil depot explosion in December 2005 and the Boscastle flood in August 2004.

Project member Dr Lee Bosher is encouraging QS firms to participate, particularly in their roles as cost, risk and project managers. 鈥淭he project is the first risk rating of its kind for buildings in the UK and would impact on the services QS firms offer,鈥� he said. 鈥淭hey could improve their disaster risk management and possibly diversify into risk management as a separate service.鈥�

There could be significant changes needed in education, potentially changing the scope of the APC and CPD

Dr Lee Bosher, Loughborough University

The outcome of the project would provide QSs with 鈥渁 framework of prioritisation of resilience issues鈥�. Benefits for clients could include higher rental incomes and reduction of insurance premiums.

If the project succeeds, Bosher suggested that future training might be affected: 鈥淭here could be significant changes needed in education, potentially changing the scope of the APC and CPD programmes.鈥�

Project partners so far include the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, Equion and Scott Wilson. High profile members of LOCOG and the ODA have also shown their support, Bosher claimed, although they are yet to officially join the project. The RICS and Sir Robert McAlpine are other potential partners.

PRE-EMPT, or Proactive Resilient Engineering & Emergency Mitigation Protocol Toolkit, is headed by Dr Andrew Dainty, a senior lecturer and a member of the Innovative Manufacturing and Construction Research Centre.