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Asked by Rocket Man Sam to Jamie, Kristen, Sheun, Simon, Will on 14 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by 200hspc34.
Question: Has any of your work ever saved anybody's life?
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Sheun Oshinbolu answered on 14 Jun 2015:
Not yet as I am only just starting, but probably in the future!
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Kristen Salzer-Frost answered on 15 Jun 2015:
It’s a bit hard to say. With my job, I would really only know if someone had died in a fire, which would mean that I had got something wrong. I always do my best to make sure that never happens! There haven’t been any fires in any of the buildings I have designed that I know about, and that may be partly due to my work. Also, by me designing efficiently, money that would otherwise have had to be spent on fire safety systems could by spent elsewhere, for example on better hospital equipment. So that may have contributed to saving lives.
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William Scott-Jackson answered on 15 Jun 2015:
Not as of yet. But hopefully in the years to come as my research continues and is picked up on by companies which is then turned into a technology, then maybe!
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Simon Marchant answered on 16 Jun 2015:
Hi Rocket Man Sam! Your username is fantastic!
I have just realised that I just replied to another of your questions (how does your work influence the life of others?) with my little story of how some of my work will hopefully save lives. So I’ll just say it again here… A few weeks ago me and some engineers and scientists found out some important information about dialysis machines (machines that clean your blood if your body can’t do it for you). These machines measure some things to see how well they’re doing, and if they’re not doing well then it is what is known as a Very Bad Thing. Our information will hopefully help to find people whose blood isn’t cleaning very well, and help them to not die. It was only a few weeks ago, and I will probably never meet anyone who it saves, but we hope it will save lives!
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