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Strategic Advisory
We help national and local government, commercial and not-for-profit organisations to achieve their goals. Embarking on the journey to net zero is a pivotal step for all organisations, and our Strategic Advisory team will provide expert guidance to help you navigate the transition with clarity and confidence.
Our team can draw on over a century of experience here at BRE and can offer services such as setting carbon baselines and roadmaps, improving building performance, addressing embodied and operational carbon, optimising supply chains, enhancing ESG reporting, and integrating circular economy principles into your projects. As a profit-for-purpose organisation, BRE reinvests its earnings into research and innovation, ensuring that our clients benefit from the latest scientific insights and practical solutions.
Whether you're at the start of your net zero journey or looking to refine an existing strategy or process, our Strategic Advisory team can offer strategies, measurement, insight, or solutions to assist with your transition to Net Zero.
Our multidisciplinary team can help you shape the strategy to decarbonise your business, portfolio or asset using industry leading approaches in the context of current policy and legislation. We believe people are the key to success here and we ensure they come with you, both in your business and your supply chain including asset occupants and users.
Net Zero Pathways and Strategies
We will support you to develop and deliver a sustainability strategy or Net Zero action plan for your organisation. We can determine your carbon baseline, and assist you with collecting clear and consistent data across your value chain to understand opportunities. We will work with you to create a tailored action plan that works for your organisation.
Learn moreResearch, Policy and Programme Management
We provide independent evidence-based research, policy advice and strategy support services designed to support effective strategy design, policy-making and programme management. We incorporate a range of methods e.g. literature reviews, qualitative and quantitative research, surveys, focus groups, data analysis, and more! Discover our latest Research, Policy and Programme Management case study to start your journey.
Building Energy Performance Strategic Support
We support housing and property professionals plan and deliver net zero buildings and effective retrofits. Drawing upon our expertise in energy modelling, coupled with our deep market insight and sustainability expertise, we provide authoritative technical, commercial and environmental due diligence to support informed decision making.
Contact usDecisions to improve and decarbonise are best grounded in measured evidence and outcomes. We can help you measure your carbon footprint, the thermal performance of your walls, your impact on building occupants and users and the positive impact that recycling and reuse of materials can have across your refurbishment or demolition projects. This provides the foundation for you to confidently act and communicate about your decarbonise journey.
Post Occupancy Evaluation
We evaluate how your building/homes performs in-use (e.g. newly constructed or post-retrofit) using POE. This will generate insight on the effectiveness of a building’s design, how occupants are using the building/systems, etc. and this is particularly useful when piloting a new specification or adopting new technologies / systems. We provide bespoke POE services suited to client’s needs, project characteristics and budget.
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Building Performance Evaluation
We offer a range of building performance evaluation services to assess the 'as-built' performance of buildings/homes (newly constructed or retrofitted) and support to address performance gaps. We develop bespoke approaches to suit project needs, drawing on our experience in delivering in-situ U-value assessments, evaluation of whole house heat loss performance, thermal imaging, air tightness testing, etc. We also offer in-use monitoring to assess energy performance and trends in internal comfort conditions and air quality.
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Pre-Refurbishment Audits
We help you determine which materials within your built assets are suitable for reuse or recycling. Our bespoke audit service enables you to set targets and objectives for your project, to assist you with meeting GLA planning requirements, BREEAM assessment needs, or other sustainability goals.
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Carbon Assessment & Performance Verification
We provide a range of carbon-based assessments, allowing you to be open and evidenced about the carbon performance of your building or product. We can also provide guidance around procurement, allowing you to select the most suitable materials for your building or product. We can also undertake third-party audit to verify a net zero carbon assessment for an organisations buildings and assets.
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Site Productivity Assessment
We will help your management team to pinpoint where time has been wasted or activities haven’t been efficient during a construction process, evidenced by hard data. We do this using CaliBRE, our site efficiency and productivity measurement tool that diagnoses and quantifies the breakdown of working hours into ‘waste time’, non-value added time and value-added time. This can lead to reduced delivery times, lower construction costs and reduced environmental impacts.
Learn moreOur solutions offer tools for you to adopt and use in your business today or to collaborate and research the tools and solutions of tomorrow with us through our active commercial, UK and European research portfolio.
Innovation Support
We understand the complexities involved in developing, testing, trialling and commercialising new built environment product, services or processes. Our experts can support you in achieving your innovation ambitions. We understand the standards and regulatory science requirements of key UK (construction, energy and retrofit) product approvals processes and we offer independent analysis, R&D, testing, monitoring and evaluation, to support routes to verification and/or certification.
Contact usKnowledge Exchange
We offer a comprehensive range of built-environment related knowledge exchange services to support you in upskilling or understanding new concepts, policies, emerging approaches or techniques. We work with you to find the best solution to meet your needs (e.g. bespoke training, workshops, stakeholder engagement, strategy and action planning, etc.) while levering our sector expertise.
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Sustainable Fit-Out Decision Making
LIST (Low Impact Sustainability Tool) is a simple online tool which enables retailers, designers and manufacturers to evaluate and compare the environmental impacts of interior fit-out designs. Using LIST, you will be able to understand and reduce environmental impacts and maximise opportunities to improve performance.
Learn moreEPD Consultancy
BRE is internationally recognised for its expertise in Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Environmental Product Declaration (EPD). Our Sustainable Products team are able to conduct your EPD, whilst Strategic Advisory can provide tailored support to help you understand your results, communicate these with customers and prepare for any regulation changes.
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Our cross- sector expertise includes net zero, energy, buildings, carbon, waste, fire detection and materials. This is deployed to provide you with the trusted insight needed to meet your specific needs for product innovation, process innovation or understanding your portfolio. Using science- based evidence to enable you to make informed decisions.
BIU Pilot Assessment
We identify where built asset improvement in BREEAM In-Use credits can enhance your sustainability and net zero credentials to deliver a positive financial outcome. We can perform this pilot service across the BREEAM scheme range on any portfolio size.
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Thermal Modelling
We use our expert knowledge to perform thermal modelling of constructions and junctions to provide values for use in energy assessments, and for risk management and mitigation against surface condensation.
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Fire Safety Research
We are actively exploring new areas of research work relating to fire safety risks associated with the move towards Net Zero. We can perform bench and full-scale experimental programmes in our test labs to assess technologies such as Li-Ion battery failures or the performance of fire detection technologies. We use research to produce new product standards that result in associated testing and certification schemes and generate knowledge that we share in the public domain as videos, briefing papers and articles in trade press.
Contact usSustainable Construction Materials
We can offer a range of services around selecting the latest low embodies carbon materials for construction projects. Our services include LCA scenario modelling, the creation of a balanced scorecard for material selection, advice on waste and advice on new technologies. We can also offer support in understanding and communicating the results of your EPDs. Our approach will be tailored to your needs.
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We lead and support research that drives progress in the built environment. From EU Horizon and Innovate UK projects to bespoke collaborations, we can help shape and deliver evidence-based solutions to your biggest challenges. Our in-house technical expertise spans a diverse range of topic areas from materials and energy performance to AI and robotics, enabling rigorous, high-impact research across all areas of the built environment.
RetroNetZero RS&IN
The RetroNetZero Regulatory science and Innovation network (RSIN) is an Innovate UK-funded project focussing on unlocking the adoption of innovation for domestic retrofit. Regulations are failing to keep pace with innovation in the retrofit sector. This is slowing the introduction of potential new solutions which could contribute to the rapid upscaling of retrofit and help the UK meet its net zero carbon targets.
Learn moreLetZero
LetZero are committed to transforming the private rental sector across South Yorkshire, working in equal partnership with both landlords and tenants to improve housing quality, reduce carbon emissions, and tackle fuel poverty.
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CLICKdesign
The CLICKdesign project (2019-2022) targeted performance-based specification protocols to predict long-term performance of wood products subjected to biotic and abiotic deteriorating agents. The overarching objective was to help specifiers and public to embed service life performance specification for wood.
Learn more5G CONQuEST
The 5G CONQuEST Project is an Innovate UK funded project that aims to provide low Carbon, flexible, secure, high speed, private 5G coverage for construction sites. The project is being undertaken by Glideology, BAM, BRE, Leading Edge Power and Attocore. They have developed a 5G mast which is easy and safe to deploy, with no working at height required, and can be re-located and moved around the site, though it’s location is linked to the 5G licence. The mast can be powered locally and off-grid.
Transform-ER
Transform-ER (Transform. Engage. Retrofit) is a game-changing, consortium-led project funded by Innovate UK that’s tackling the retrofit industry’s biggest barriers to enable a sector that can deliver one million home upgrades every year by 2030. 13 industry leaders are collaborating to create a new retrofit delivery model that makes it easier for social landlords to achieve high-quality, cost-effective retrofit programmes at scale - creating comfortable, healthy, and energy-efficient homes that appeal to residents. Transform-ER (Transform.Engage.Retrofit)
PRISM
Proactive Intelligent Construction Site Management Enabled by Automated On Site Monitoring (PRISM) will develop a digitally-enabled construction planning and management solution that delivers step-change productivity improvements for on-site construction.
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