BRE is able to help at every stage of your building project, If your building has draughts we can help identify the air leakage paths, we can also help you to develop a strategy which helps air tightness targets to be consistently achieved.  We can advise on remediation of indoor air quality problems, and undertake surveys to assess occupancy satisfaction with new design approaches and technologies.

BRE's Building Design Consultancy offers clients low-carbon design guidance, technical advice and building evaluation services.

Our team of architects, building services engineers, environmental scientists and psychologists specialise in commercial, education, and healthcare sectors and help clients, design teams and occupiers to achieve high quality sustainable buildings and property portfolios.  This includes offering clients technical and design advice on achieving BREEAM standards, design quality indicator facilitation, energy and carbon management and research.

BRE helps local authorities, land owners and developers to identify the relevant sustainable development opportunities available to help deliver sustainable communities. We work with you to provide an assessment framework to guide the sustainable design of developments and to allow developers to demonstrate the sustainability features of their proposals to the local planning authority.

BRE offers a range of sustainable refurbishment consultancy services to the private and public sectors. The Refurbishment Team is currently working with partners and clients across the country on a wide range of green refurbishment projects.

The BRE Refurbishment Team provides services focus on:

• energy efficiency
• insulation
• carbon emissions
• renewable energy
• supply chain
• recycling
• new technologies
• decent homes code
• design specification
• retrofit for climate change

Our aim is to improve the energy efficiency, to adapt the existing building stock to climate change issues and to encourage the industry to raise standards of practice.

Local, regional and national planning policies are placing an ever increasing emphasis on the need to conserve energy and reduce carbon emissions. BRE's has extensive experience in developing site wide energy strategies for a range of housing and mixed use developments. We help to ensure a smooth route through the planning process, saving our client's time and unnecessary expense, by quantifying how the energy requirements of a development can be met efficiently and how generation from renewable sources can contribute to greatest effect.

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It is often useful to use dynamic simulation tools to supplement the SAP and Code assessments, to ensure that an adequate ventilation and summer overheating strategy has been implemented.  BRE offers a comprehensive dynamic simulation package.

Bespoke construction types can also be modelled in thermal modelling software to assess the level of thermal bridging (heat loss) between elements - this is useful for both Building Regulations and Code compliance.  BRE offers comprehensive thermal modelling services to evaluate the level of thermal bridging of junctions to enable developers to gain benefit for better detailing.