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BRE calls for next government to raise the bar on UK building standards, with ‘micro’ investment zones and AI adoption
BRE announces launch of the BREEAM Awards 2024
BRE responds to Spring budget 2024
Poor housing costs the NHS £1.4bn a year
Our findings reveal that 2.6 million homes in England, 11% of the country’s housing stock, are categorised as ‘poor quality’.
According to BRE’s analysis, more than half (£857 million) of this annual NHS treatment bill can be attributed to defects in homes which expose residents to excess cold, while the second biggest cost to the NHS comes from hazards which cause people to fall and injure themselves, often on staircases.
NABERS UK Design for Performance Framework Launches
First development to achieve HQM ONE at design stage
Predicting service life of timber structures
Mal Sivapunniyan, Executive Director, Risk and Audit at dentsu group Inc, joins BRE Group’s Board of Non-Executive Directors
BRE proud to have played major role in new English Housing Survey 2018-19 reports
BRE China celebrates two major milestones
Frameworks to build a better Britain
Frameworks to build a better Britain is a BRE series of roundtables and interviews with planners, architects, policy-makers, and construction experts about the future of the built environment.
Read our latest roundtable discussion, hosted in Manchester on the question: How can Britain’s Built Environment Tackle Social Exclusion?
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