{"id":3726,"date":"2023-01-17T14:37:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T14:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/covid19-national-project\/?p=3726"},"modified":"2024-12-02T16:10:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T16:10:45","slug":"3726","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/covid19-national-project\/2023\/01\/17\/3726\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping the UK Building Safely phase 2 report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221; fullwidth=&#8221;on&#8221; next_background_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; global_module=&#8221;322&#8243;][et_pb_fullwidth_menu global_parent=&#8221;322&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.106&#8243; menu_id=&#8221;7&#8243; submenu_direction=&#8221;downwards&#8221; fullwidth_menu=&#8221;off&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;dark&#8221; module_class=&#8221;main-navigation&#8221; \/][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; fullwidth=&#8221;off&#8221; specialty=&#8221;on&#8221; prev_background_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; next_background_color=&#8221;#1d1d1d&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;2_3&#8243; specialty_columns=&#8221;2&#8243;][et_pb_row_inner locked=&#8221;off&#8221;][et_pb_column_inner type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; saved_specialty_column_type=&#8221;2_3&#8243;][et_pb_post_title _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.106&#8243; title=&#8221;on&#8221; meta=&#8221;on&#8221; author=&#8221;on&#8221; date=&#8221;on&#8221; categories=&#8221;on&#8221; comments=&#8221;on&#8221; featured_image=&#8221;on&#8221; featured_placement=&#8221;above&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_background=&#8221;off&#8221; locked=&#8221;on&#8221; parent_locked=&#8221;off&#8221; \/][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; parent_locked=&#8221;off&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>This Keeping the UK Building Safely (KUBS) report is part of the PROTECT National Core study, and explores four themes: transmission risk and perceptions, safety leadership, transmission modelling and wider project delivery and contractual performance in the context of the construction industry and COVID-19 pandemic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/covid19-national-project\/research-themes\/knowledge-integration-capacity-building-synthesis-and-communication\/keeping-the-uk-building-safely\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">KUBS phase 1 report<\/span><\/a> explored the context at the start of the pandemic with managers and suggested that construction was expected to manage well with safe working due to the existing cultures and structures.\u00a0 This report, <a href=\"https:\/\/documents.manchester.ac.uk\/display.aspx?DocID=65110\">\u2018<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">KUBS 2\u2019<\/span><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">,<\/span> was conducted at a much later point in the pandemic, and with a wider range of staff from all levels within construction, allowing us to explore these expectations and the extent to which they were realised.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The report concludes that the full extent of the economic consequences of the pandemic are yet to be known, but early data suggest that the path to recovery will be slow &#8211; particularly in the context of global uncertainty arising from the conflict in Ukraine. 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