29th September 2023
News
21st September 2023
BRE responds to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s update to UK green policies
BRE has long argued that we urgently require a clear, long-term plan to transition our homes and buildings away from fossil fuel boilers and on to clean heat, and the announcements made by the Prime Minister could set us back substantially on this ambition.
18th September 2023
BRE Global signs MoU with Dubai-based fire testing laboratory Thomas Bell-Wright International Consultants
BRE Global and Thomas Bell-Wright International Consultants are pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the two organisations.
16th August 2023
Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard public consultation
BRE, in collaboration with the construction and built environment sector, is working to create robust and practical solutions to the global climate crisis.
8th September 2023
LPCB Certification and Kingspan
Following BRE’s decision last year to end its commercial relationship with Kingspan, BRE now confirms that all existing Kingspan products that were previously listed on RedBookLive have been recertified. BRE will continue to support LPCB certification for these existing products.
4th September 2023
NABERS UK to seek new administrator as BRE moves to focus on BREEAM
The Building Research Establishment (BRE) and NABERS have today announced that BRE is ending its licence agreement for the energy performance rating tool, NABERS UK, in order to focus on its world-leading BREEAM scheme.
19th July 2023
The role of third-party certification in installing gas extinguishing & condensed aerosol systems
The purpose of LPS 1204 is to set appropriate technical and quality standards to assure interested parties that gas extinguishing systems are properly designed, installed, commissioned and serviced to safeguard life and/or property.
4th July 2023
Poor housing will cost over £135.5bn over the next 30 years without urgent action
A new cost-benefit analysis published today by the Building Research Establishment (BRE) has revealed that remedial work to England’s poorest housing could provide £135.5 billion (bn) in societal benefits over the next 30 years.
3rd May 2023
27,500 Dutch homes provide BREEAM’s largest single certification yet
Vesteda, a Dutch residential investor has achieved the single largest real estate sustainability certification in the world, through BRE’s leading certification scheme, BREEAM.
24th May 2023
BRE consults on net zero BREEAM update
BRE launches consultation to seek views on a major update to its world-leading sustainability assessment method, BREEAM.
