Housing 2014

Welcome to this Resources area of the BRE website for visitors to our stand at Housing 2014, 24-26 June, Manchester.

For information on our services, please follow the links below:

BREEAM Domestic Refurbishment which helps social housing providers and their contractors refurbish homes in a more sustainable manner.

BREEAM Communities for local authority planners, social housing providers, design teams and others. BREEAM Communities helps improve, measure and certify the social, environmental and economic sustainability of large scale development plans by integrating sustainable design into the masterplanning process.

You can go straight to our BREEAM Communities at Castleward video case study on Vimeo

SMARTWaste - Managing and reducing waste on construction sites

Housing stock - Repair, maintenance and condition surveys for housing stock

Housing and health - quantifying the health benefits of better housing, and analysing the health-related cost of poor housing

Fire safety - fire engineering and fire investigation work for the social housing sector

Security and crime - helping to make neighbourhoods safer and more secure

News - BRE consults with the industry on the development of a new homes standard

We have unveiled plans to develop a voluntary sustainability standard for new homes that will allow developers to differentiate their product in the marketplace by recognising performance beyond minimum regulation and provide increased choice for the consumer. See our press release or visit our Future of Sustainable Housing page.