This site contains a number of smaller sites which are here to disseminate the findings of some of BRE's research programme to a wider audience. Many of these projects are carried out under the Department of Trade and Industry's 'Partners in Innovation' scheme, on behalf of regulatory bodies, or with EC funding.

For details about the projects, contact the person named within each page.

For general BRE enquiries see the main BRE website at www.bre.co.uk

concrete and masonry | timber and composites | building services, ventilation, noise and air quality | Building Regulations | fire, risk and security | 'Green' issues, whole life, sustainability, building perfomance and use | others

Concrete and masonry projects:

• CON REP NET - a thematic network on performance-based rehabilitation of reinforced concrete structures
• 1st International Conference on Thaumasite in Cementitious Materials
• Special Digest 1: Concrete in aggressive ground
• BRE Stone List
• Corrosion in Concrete (DME5.1)
• Testing of industrial products: Aggregates for construction
• Development of Codes and Standards for Natural Stone
• Practical Application of Best Practice in Concrete Frame Construction
• European Standards for Concrete, Cements, Aggregates and Concrete Repair
• The REACH project

Timber and composites projects:

• Please visit the BRE website Timber pages for current timber projects
• ECOTAN - increasing the durability, value and performance of European timbers
• Polymer composites as construction materials

Building services, ventilation, noise and air quality issues:

• Intelligent Buildings
• DHCAN - A promotional programme for District (or Community) Heating in Candidate Countries
• Adoption of Part L in the refurbishment of existing housing stock
• School Acoustics - compliance with Building Bulletin 93
• Environmental Noise – data from two major BRE studies
• Airtightness testing services from BRE
• Overcoming the ‘Circle of Blame’ in minimising the ingress of external pollution
  and improving indoor air quality.
• Controlling dust from construction and demolition activity
• Atrium sizer:
  the demonstration version of the atrium sizing tool referred to in the BRE Report "Natural Ventilation in atria for environment and smoke control" (Excel workbook)
• CHP in buildings
• Designing for adaptable building services
• AirCycle project
• Nitecool - a sketch design tool for ventilation that runs over the web
• Revision of CIBSE Guide B – Sections 2, 3 and 12
  Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Acoustics
• Positive input ventilation in dwellings – Does it work?
• Noise in the net: how and where to find more info about noise on the internet
• Innovative displacement ventilation to improve building performance
• Innovative cooling technologies
• The CabinAir project
• NATVENT -
  Pan-European project encouraging the use of natural ventilation in office-type buildings.

Building Regulations

• Adoption of Part L1(2002) in existing dwellings – case studies
• SAP 2001, Standard Assessment Procedure, energy rating for dwellings - information and downloadable document
• New Approved Document J – Frequently asked questions
• School Acoustics - compliance with Building Bulletin 93

Fire, risk and security projects

• Designing roofs with safety in mind
• Actual Delivered Density (ADD) Sprinkler Research
• New Draft TBs for the LPC Sprinkler Rules
• Characterisation of fires database
• ECSC Natural Fire Safety Concept 3
• FBE Heat loss prediction project
• Plastic Pallet Fire Test Demonstrations
• Predicting Future Crime Trends
• Site Safety Hazard Assessment System
• BRE Best Practice Guides – Structural Fire Engineering

'Green' issues, whole life, sustainability, building perfomance and use

• T-Zero. Towards zero emission refurbishment options in UK housing
• A note which describes the derivation of emission factors for use with delivered energy consumption data for buildings (PDF file)
• A note which provides updated delivered energy emission factors. It also gives an an initial assessment of emissions associated with transporting fuel and historical electricity emission factors (PDF file)
• Carbon emissions from non-domestic buildings (BR442) PDF file
• Reducing carbon emissions from the UK housing stock (PDF file)
• Library of Packages
• Domestic Energy Fact File 2003
• Advanced calculations of moisture movement in structures
• EU SAVE project. Labelling and other measures for reducing the energy use and carbon emissions of heating systems in dwellings
• Sustainability of Prefabricataion and Modular Processes in Construction
• Building performance and post occupancy evaluation
• Assessing the Risk of Climate Change for Roofing
  The roofing industry and BRE have teamed up to assess the problems posed by climate change and the possible solutions.
• Developing biodiverstiy benchmarks for construction projects
• Sustainability lessons from PFI and similar initiatives/Functionality in Construction
• Sustainable Refurbishment: refurbish or redevelop - making the right choice
• the Haverhill Hemp Homes project
• MaSC - Managing Sustainable Construction
• Reputation Risk and Reward - a report from the Sustainable Construction Task Group
• Engaging the client in design
• Field investigations of the thermal performance (U-values) of construction elements 'as built' PDF file (484k), opens in new window...
  
• A sustainability tool for Utility Companies
  indicators to check they comply with legislation and balance the economic, environmental and social demands on their streetworks and local infrastructure
• Sustainable Construction – the data
  This major BRE report provides a timely source of background information from which many groups can draw in devising their strategies and action plans for improving the sustainability of UK construction and for responding to the Governments own strategy.
• Environmental impact and whole life cost
• Deconstruction
• Development of a toolkit for measuring functional performance
• BRE Environmental building -- the details
• Informing & influencing small to medium sized enterprises
• Encouraging performance feedback during the defects liability period
• SB2000 - Greenest buildings
• Closing the Resourse Use Loop
• Wind engineering

Others

• Improving construction site communications
• Working with the community
• Dust testing (BRE website)