Recent news and events
Adelard is hosting a Building Safety webinar on Safety Management Systems for HRBs
We are excited to present our Building Safety webinar series, designed to assist housing sector professionals in navigating the complexities of new regulatory demands and the obligation to adopt structured safety cases for building safety management.
In this webinar held on 3rd September, we focused on Safety Management Systems (SMS) and explored how SMS play a key role in buildings' safety cases. Our safety case experts provided some practical steps to help you make sense of the regulator’s guidance and shared good practices for SMS.
ASCE 5 Extensibility API is now available!
Aug 7, 2024
We are excited to announce the release of the new ASCE 5 Extensibility API. This comprehensive guide provides a set of definitions, interfaces, and guidelines to help our users extend ASCE by creating new custom plugins and schemas.
ASCE – the Assurance and Safety Case Environment is the most widely adopted commercial software for the development and management of safety and assurance cases. It facilitates the creation of the structured argument of claims or goals that are backed up by argumentation and supporting evidence, including multiple internal and external cross-references. This structured approach, underpinned by ASCE, can be applied to many problem domains.
Adelard is hosting a Building Safety webinar exploring the HAZID risk assessment technique
May 14, 2024
We are excited to present our Building Safety webinar series, designed to assist housing sector professionals in navigating the complexities of new regulatory demands and the obligation to adopt structured safety cases for building safety management.
In our first webinar held on 29th May, we will be looking at the HAZID (Hazard Identification) risk assessment technique and ways it can be successfully employed to identify and control potential building safety hazards.
Adelard is hosting a Safety Assurance Case Workshop
Mar 04, 2024
Adelard, part of NCC Group, is hosting a hybrid Safety Assurance Case Workshop dedicated to the nuclear industry stakeholders on March 14th, 2024 at 1PM – 5PM EST.
The workshop is organised to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and to enable the industry to gain a better understanding of the technology and the activities in the area of a safety assurance case framework.
In view of industry’s desire for performance-based regulatory evaluation and interest in the safety assurance case approach, Adelard is seeking input for NRC-sponsored research in a DI&C safety assurance case framework tailored to the needs of the US nuclear industry. This framework could be built on results available from the DARPA Automated Rapid Certification of Software (ARCOS) program, which was based on Assurance 2.0.
Adelard supports Safety Case Adoption at Gentoo Group
Feb 26, 2024
Housing association Gentoo engaged safety case expert Adelard, part of NCC Group, to help develop a pilot safety case for one of their high-rise buildings in line with new obligations under the Building Safety Act 2022.
The project, built around safety case mentoring and knowledge transfer, aimed to develop Gentoo's own safety case capabilities within their building safety team, evaluate the use of the ASCE safety case tool, and prepare a broader programme of work and roadmap for safety case adoption.
Adelard is hosting Best Practices in Safety Cases for Higher Risk Buildings Forum
Jan 10, 2024
We are thrilled to be hosting a breakfast networking and experience sharing forum “Best Practices in Safety Cases for Higher Risk Buildings” on 29th February 2024.
The event is organised in anticipation of the April 2024 deadline set by the Building Safety Regulator requiring HRB accountable persons to have safety cases and safety case reports in place for their higher risk buildings. It will bring together building safety professionals and safety case experts and will provide a unique opportunity to share invaluable insights and knowledge.
CPNI publishes new security-informed safety page containing a range of useful guidance dedicated to safety and security specialists
Feb 6, 2023
UK Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) published a series of guidance documents that cover extensive expert information on the approach to security-informed safety assurance and the Claims, Arguments and Evidence (CAE) methodology.
ASCE 5.1 delivers enhanced functionality, support for GSN v3 and next generation assurance case design.
Oct 03, 2022
Adelard, part of NCC Group, is pleased to announce the release of ASCE 5.1. The release signifies an important milestone in the evolution of ASCE with the new version incorporating improvements to many familiar features as well as the introduction of new features aimed at embracing the next generation of assurance case design, Assurance 2.0.
Peter Bishop presents a paper at ESREL 2022
Sep 01, 2022
On September 1st 2022, our Chief Scientist Peter Bishop presented a paper to the European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2022) entitled: "Proportionate Assurance of Smart Devices used in the UK Nuclear Industry".
Sofia Guerra presents at NPIC&HMIT 2021
Jun 18, 2021
Adelard’s partner Dr Sofia Guerra attended the American Nuclear Society's 12th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2021) conference held on 14-17 June and presented Adelard’s research papers discussing the use of COTS devices in safety-critical sectors and various justification approaches employed by industries.
Clarion Housing Group works with Adelard to develop safety case framework in response to Hackitt report.
May 05, 2021
Clarion Housing Group is collaborating with Adelard, safety case and risk management specialists, to develop and deploy a safety case programme and framework for Higher Risk Buildings (HRB) helping to further enhance the safety of its residents and visitors.
Robin Bloomfield, keynote speaker at Safety-Critical Systems Symposium (SSS'21)
Feb 04, 2021
Professor Robin Bloomfield, partner at Adelard LLP, will be delivering a Keynote presentation at Safety-Critical Systems Symposium on 10 February 2021 at 2:00pm (GMT). Robin will introduce the why, what, and how of Assurance 2.0: A Manifesto. Assurance 2.0 has been developed in response to the challenges posed by new developments including systems in which major functions are driven by machine learning as well as the persistent issues of effective and timely assurance.
Adelard's partner Sofia Guerra co-authors report with IAEA
Oct 07, 2020
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) published the report co-authored by Adelard’s partner Dr Sofia Guerra “Challenges and Approaches for Selecting, Assessing and Qualifying Commercial Industrial Digital Instrumentation and Control Equipment for Use in Nuclear Power Plant Applications”.
New research paper co-authored by Peter Bishop
Jul 01, 2020
Adelard's Chief Scientist Peter Bishop, collaborated with Andrey Povyakalo to release the research paper "A conservative confidence bound for the probability of failure on demand of a software-based system based on failure-free tests of its components".
Adelard launches ASCE 5 and new support website
Apr 21, 2020
Adelard LLP has released the fifth generation of ASCE with a host of new updates aimed at bringing operational improvements to the development, maintenance and communication of assurance and safety cases.
Toward Trustworthy AI Development - Heidy Khlaaf co-authored a new multi-stakeholder report
Apr 16, 2020
Heidy Khlaaf, Senior Consultant at Adelard, joined the international team of academic researchers, industry scientists, policy experts and other stakeholders involved in the development of AI to co-author “Toward Trustworthy AI Development: Mechanisms for Supporting Verifiable Claims” report.
Autonomous road vehicles - Adelard releases TIGARS project conclusions
Mar 25, 2020
TIGARS (Towards Identifying and closing Gaps in Assurance of autonomous Road vehicleS) was an international research project aimed at investigating the assurance gaps and challenges for first generation autonomous systems, and research into novel techniques and engineering processes for addressing them.
Adelard delivers keynote lecture at SREcon19
Nov 20, 2019
Heidy Khlaaf, Consultant at Adelard, was invited to deliver the keynote lecture at Site Reliability Engineering Conference 2019 (SREcon19) in Dublin, Ireland. SREcon is an annual conference gathering engineers and enabling them to discuss topics of site reliability, systems engineering, and working with complex distributed systems at scale.
Adelard wins contract to streamline release into service process for the ATM safety case for the Queen Elizabeth-class (QEC) aircraft carriers.
Oct 23, 2019
Adelard LLP in conjunction with Osprey Consulting Services will be assisting DE&S in modernising its existing safety case and compliance matrix for Air Traffic Management (ATM) for the QEC aircraft carriers.
Adelard updates DOORS integration for ASCE
Oct 10, 2019
Adelard has released an updated version of its DOORS integration for ASCE. Now compatible with the latest versions of IBM Rational DOORS classic, (9.6 and 9.7), the integration permits traceable content managed by DOORS to be inserted into the safety or assurance case within ASCE.
DE&S renew commitment to ASCE
Aug 28, 2019
Adelard LLP is delighted to announce the renewal of a contract for the continued use of ASCE within DE&S Air Operating and Weapons Operating Centres. The contract signed in March 2019 covering both operating centres will run for 3 years.