🔊"With access to the Standard, the #builtenvironment industry is equipped to target, design and operate buildings to be #netzero carbon aligned, driving the positive change that we need to meet our #climate goals," said Katie Clemence-Jackson, Chair of the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard’s Technical Steering Group. 📄 A pilot version of the #UKNetZeroCarbonBuildingsStandard goes live today. BRE has joined forces with other industry leaders Better Buildings Partnership, The Carbon Trust, CIBSE, The Institution of Structural Engineers, LETI, RIBA, RICS, and UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) to champion this initiative. This free-to-access cross-industry standard for #netzerocarbon aligned buildings enables the #construction industry to robustly prove that built assets align with the UK’s #carbon and #energy budgets. The Standard provides a set of consistent rules to create a level playing field around such claims. 🗓 The pilot version contains the technical details on how a building should meet the standard, and what limits and targets it needs to meet. Sign up to the pilot version's launch webinar on 31st October to ask questions directly to the Technical Steering Group: https://lnkd.in/eFf8tt6r #UKNZCBS #TheStandard
BRE
Construction
Watford, Hertfordshire 40,975 followers
Contributing to a thriving and sustainable world by developing science-led solutions to built environment challenges
About us
BRE delivers innovative and rigorous products, services, standards and qualifications which are used around the globe to make buildings better for people and for the environment. For over a century we have provided government and industry with cutting edge research and testing to make buildings safer and more sustainable. BRE’s ambition is to be the world’s leading innovation, science and data hub for the built environment. By developing science-led solutions to urgent challenges, we will build a thriving and sustainable world.
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http://www.bregroup.com
External link for BRE
- Industry
- Construction
- Company size
- 501-1,000 employees
- Headquarters
- Watford, Hertfordshire
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 1921
- Specialties
- Construction Materials, Fire, Structural Engineering, Structural Testing, Timber, Concrete, Acoustics, Thermal Performance, Sustainability, EcoHomes, Energy, Waste, Building Diagnostics, Corrosion, Wind Loading, Durability, Life Cycle Analysis, construction, and sustainability
Locations
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Primary
Bucknalls Lane
Garston
Watford, Hertfordshire WD25 9XX, GB
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Red Tree Magenta, Red Tree Business Centre
270 Glasgow Road, Rutherglen
Glasgow, G73 1UZ, GB
Employees at BRE
Updates
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🔊"Since embodied #CO2 in #construction is 11% of all global #emissions, and clinker, the critical ingredient in cement generates 65% of these, finding ways to reduce emissions from cement and concrete is critical," said John Reddy, Director of Concrete Technology Deployment at #Ecocem. 📁 BRE joins #Sisk, Ecocem GB, Ramboll, Creagh Concrete, Capital Concrete Ltd & Loughborough University to trial "world-first" #lowcarbon concrete technology at Wembley site following £500k in funding from Innovate UK. More by Bea Patel in BTR News: https://lnkd.in/eYbvehdz #builtenvironment #netzero #zerocarbon
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🔊"By presenting a unified set of rules, the industry can demonstrate how it will meet #netzero targets and stay within the critical 1.5°C temperature increase," said Duncan Baker-Brown , #RIBA #Climate Expert Advisory Group co-chair. 📁 A pilot version of the #UKNetZeroCarbonBuildingsStandard has been launched. This free-to-access technical standard will enable the #construction industry to robustly prove that built assets align with the UK’s #carbon and #energy budgets. BRE joined forces with other industry leaders Better Buildings Partnership, The Carbon Trust, CIBSE, The Institution of Structural Engineers, LETI, RIBA, RICS, and UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) to develop the standard. More by Robert Hakimian for New Civil Engineer: https://lnkd.in/eRaa8KZV #builtenvironment #zerocarbon
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🔊"The consortium’s approach builds on the technical expertise of each party to build long-term resilience and #sustainability in our industry, working towards a sustainable future for the communities in which we operate," said Sarah-Jane Pisciotti, Innovation and design director at Sisk. 📁 BRE is part of a consortium, led by #Sisk and including Ecocem Global, Ramboll, Creagh Concrete, Capital Concrete Ltd and Loughborough University, which has been awarded £500,000 in Innovate UK funding as part of the Contracts for innovation: decarbonising concrete competition. The project will deliver a two-storey #lowcarbon concrete frame, demonstrating how the material is suitable for both precast and in-situ concrete applications. It uses a first-of-its-kind technology called Advanced Cement Technology (ACT), which can reduce #CO2emissions from concrete by up to 70%. 📄 Full rundown by Miles Rebeiro in Construction Wave https://lnkd.in/eDZQVwTX #builtenvironment #construction
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🔊"As a robust industry-backed initiative, the Standard should be useful to policymakers as it outlines what is needed to support the UK’s #netzerocarbon transition." 📄 A pilot version of the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard (NZCBS), a free-to-access technical standard to robustly prove built assets align with the UK #carbon and #energy budgets, has been launched. BRE has joined forces with organisations Better Buildings Partnership, The Carbon Trust, CIBSE, The Institution of Structural Engineers, LETI, RIBA, RICS, and UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) to champion this initiative. "The Standard brings together data from thousands of buildings submitted by professionals from across the #builtenvironment and will be an important step towards a #netzero carbon economy," said David Partridge, Chair of the Standard’s Governance Board. 📁 Read full rundown in Specification Online: https://lnkd.in/exE8wBgF
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"Improving the homes of older people by making it easier to get the adaptations that are needed would help significantly reduce the number of falls in this country and their associated cost to the #NHS," said Millie Brown, Centre for Ageing Better (CFaB) Senior Evidence Manager for homes. Published to mark #FallsPreventionAwarenessWeek (23-27 September), new BRE analysis for the CFaB shows that removing the most serious fall hazards in homes lived in by at least one person aged 55 would unlock £1.4bn annually. 📄Read full rundown by Mark Cantrell for Housing Digital: https://lnkd.in/eeBb4cui #builtenvironment
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"New analysis from BRE for the Centre for Ageing Better shows that removing the most serious fall hazards in homes lived in by at least one person aged 55 or over, would also bring broader annual savings to society of £1.4bn." 📄 Released to mark #FallsPreventionAwarenessWeek, this research finds removing serious fall hazards from older people’s homes would save the #NHS £330mn a year. Fall hazards are a major contributing factor to the 3.5 million unsafe homes in this country, with almost eight million people in England living in such homes, including around 2.6 million people aged 55 and over. "Of course, there can be many reasons for falls. But homes that lack basic adaptations can play a significant role in increasing the risk. This is an unnecessary threat that risks causing unnecessary pain and injury to older people," said Millie Brown, Senior Evidence Manger for Homes at the Centre for Ageing Better. Read more: https://lnkd.in/em672-ev #homes #builtenvironment #NHS
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📁 How do our science-based solutions help to drive the highways industry towards a more #sustainable future? Join us at Highways UK to discover how our range of solutions are enabling infrastructure projects around the world to be more sustainable. 🗓 16-17 October 2024 at The NEC, Birmingham. Visit BRE at stand 356B and meet our experts to discover how our leading solutions, BRE Academy, #SmartWaste and #BREEAM Infrastructure can help you exceed environmental targets and validate your #sustainability credentials. 🗓 Stuart Blofeld, Senior Lead Trainer, for #SmartWaste, will also speak on the panel, "Designing in Carbon Reduction," discussing the tools and approaches needed for identifying and mitigating #carbonemissions. Sustainability Theatre, 17 October, 14:10 – 14:50. Featuring over 300 expert speakers, Highways UK is an event focused on the planning, developing and future-proofing of UK road networks. 📄 Sign up for the event here: https://lnkd.in/ec2qv2fM 📄 More on #BREAcademy, our leading training solution for addressing defining challenges in the #builtenvironment: https://lnkd.in/eQgdF5KD 📄 More on #SmartWaste, BRE's leading waste management tool: https://lnkd.in/ea3tf4mH 📄 More on #BREEAMInfrastructure, sustainability rating scheme for infrastructure and civil engineering: https://lnkd.in/edvb2cXy
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🔊 "I’m looking forward to attending the IAASF Conference and discussing how training can help support the protection of cultural venues and heritage," said Polly Wilkinson, Head of BRE Academy. 📄 Next month we will be exhibiting at the International Arts and Antiquities Security Forum (IAASF) Annual Conference, bringing together museum professionals, security specialists, researchers, academics and government bodies to explore the development of resilience in the cultural sector. Visit our stand event where Richard Flint, Technical and Commercial Lead – Security, and Polly Wilkinson, Head of BRE Academy, will discuss how #LPCB and #BREAcademy can support the protection of cultural venues and heritage. 🗓 16-17 October 2024 at Redworth Hall Hotel, County Durham. Find out more and register for the IAASF Conference: https://lnkd.in/epjWQq4Z
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"Each year, the #NHS in England spends an estimated £1.4bn on treating illnesses associated with living in cold or damp housing, according to building research body BRE." BBC News references our "Cost of poor housing in England" report while discussing the dangers of black mould in homes. Full article: https://lnkd.in/etETvRiS BRE report in full: https://lnkd.in/ekWyBNUT