Successful transfer

Educational activities provided for remuneration and activities in the field of expertise or publishing are also important areas that we classify as economic transfers. Here are examples of successful transfer, especially in the expert activities carried out at the Institute of Forensic Engineering at the BUT.

• IFE co-organized WORLD RECONSTRUCTION EXPOSITION, the premier educational forum for accident investigation professionals from around the world.
• IFE analyzed causes of a wide range of complex, difficult, and medially known cases including ascertaining the cause of the fall of the cable car on Ještěd mountain.
• In record time, IFE developed an accelerated valuation method and assessed damages to municipal property after the tornado n South Moravia in 2021 (valuated 108 often large objects in 8 days - one object means, e.g., an elementary school with several buildings, including a school playground).
• IFE serve as a consultant for the Ministry of Justice on the legal and sub-legal regulation of expert activities in the Czech Republic.
• IFE created new tool (Vehicle Damage Catalogue) for crash analysis, insurance companies and Police.
• IFE published a book Vehicle Crush Investigation: A Guidebook to Documentation and Analysis that aims to be a practical guide to the process of documentation and subsequent analysis of vehicle damage.
• As the methodological workplace in the field of accident analysis and reconstruction in the Czech Republic, IFE created a New methodology for documentation of the crash scene by the Police of the Czech Republic which serves for innovation of the crash documentation process conducted by the Police.
• IFE Crash Team has developed and tested the equipment designed for crash tests of personal vehicle and trucks. The system allows for the analysis of vehicle behavior under various collision conditions, including different impact directions, overlaps, and interactions with road infrastructure elements.
• IFE based on extensive research created The Expert Standard No. I/2022 - Valuation of Road and Special Vehicles that clarifies and unifies the approaches to vehicle valuation and serves to experts and insurance companies throughout the Czech Republic.
• IFE created The Road Traffic Accidents Reconstruction Standard supports expert witnesses in providing reliable crash analysis and enhancing the quality of expert opinions in legal proceedings.