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September 2010

BRE Appointed Lead Partner on Energy Zone Consortium

BRE has been appointed lead partner in a £3m Energy Technologies Institute consortium project which aims to develop ways to improve the energy efficiency of most of the 26 million UK homes that will still be in existence in 2050.

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August 2010

Low Carbon Built Environment Expert Service for Scottish SME Innovators
Scottish Enterprise (SE) has launched a ‘Low Carbon Built Environment (LCBE) Expert Service’ to support individuals and organisations with products that will help Scotland deliver on its low and zero carbon agenda. read more...

Flood Resilient Planning & Building
A training course on 20-21 October at BRE in Watford will address the main issues for flood resilient planning and building. read more...

Building firms set to benefit as BRE's SMARTWaste tool and WRAP's Waste to Landfill Reporting Portal join forces
Tackling waste in construction will become easier for building firms as the BRE SMARTWaste tool and WRAP Waste to Landfill Reporting Portal become compatible. read more...

How to identify and survey domestic Modern Methods of Construction

A training course on 25 October at BRE in Watford will explain how to identify a variety of modern construction methods.

BRE Trust Report Offers Insight on Energy Efficiency for New and Existing Buildings
BRE Trust, the owner of BRE, the UK’s leading centre of expertise on the built environment, is pleased to announce a new publication, Energy Efficiency in New and Existing Buildings: Comparative Costs and CO₂ Savings, which reviews ways to improve the energy efficiency of both new and existing buildings. read more...

BRE Brings the House Down

For Sarah Beeny's new tv series 'Help! My House is Falling Down' the production company turned to the experts at BRE to set up a series of demonstrations of what might happen to the houses featured in the show if urgent repairs were not carried out.

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Summer Savings on BRE Training Courses
BRE Training is delighted to announce significant summer savings on selected training courses. read more...

First Welsh zero carbon home will kick-start a green economy
A new mini-community of zero and near zero carbon homes on the site of the old steel works at Ebbw Vale look set to not only stimulate the development a low carbon built environment in Wales but also to kick-start a ‘green' economy in the country. read more...

BRE Global and RIBA Enterprises join forces
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BRE Trust increases spending on research projects
BRE Trust Annual General meeting 2010 read more...

July 2010

New lease of life for terraced homes in Wales
A project to refurbish six former Welsh miners’ houses into sustainable and desirable modern homes was launched today by Jane Davidson, AM, Minister for the Environment, Sustainability and Housing. read more...

Minister gets a preview of BRE's Victorian Terrace Project
On a visit to BRE on 1st July, Communities and Local Government Minister Andrew Stunell was shown around the recently completed Phase 1 of the Victorian Terrace Retrofit project. read more...

BREEAM Data Centres 2010 launched
New green building standard could reduce energy use in Data Centres by more than 50% read more...