Buildings Great Britain contains representations of building footprints, with each structure related to a building unit or collection of units, that are enriched with detailed characteristics, such as year built, living area, and sales information, as well as other data to help assess the property. Each building structure is related to a building unit or collection of units that are enriched with building characteristic information such as living area, year built, sales information, and other data helpful in assessing the property. The IDLink table, which builds real-world relationships to address and property information for a richer understanding, can be leveraged to aid in uses cases such as:
Insurance
- Identifying the location of a building can validate the placement of insured structures within a parcel, and helping to understand their exposure to risks such as flood, wildfire, fault lines, and shoreline
- Performing analyses of building proximity to fire stations, police stations, and crime-prone areas to determine which properties to ensure, and provide appropriate premium rates
- Assessing affected properties after a risk event to estimate total loss
- Managing policies in force by understanding over-concentration or under-concentration of policies in high-risk areas
- Identifying fraudulent claims
Telecommunications
- Updating service areas by identifying serviceable locations for unserved or underserved properties, providing potential for increased subscribership or extension of new services to existing customers
- Performing network planning and managing assets by using building footprint shapes and densities to optimize signal coverage, identify obstructions for microwave or millimeter-wave networks, and determining how signals will penetrate buildings based on construction data
- Performing risk modeling and assessing the vulnerability of network infrastructure to ensure resilience during weather risk events
- Reducing the costs of expensive on-site physical inspections