Constructing Excellence (CE)- Strategic, membership support and delivery partner

Client: Constructing Excellence (CE) Client challenge: Constructing Excellence’s purpose is to improve industry performance in the UK built environment sector. The outcome of this will be a demonstrably better built environment delivered by an excellent industry. Constructing Excellence is a membership-led organisation which exists to make a difference for its members and other stakeholders. Its members … Continue reading “Constructing Excellence (CE)- Strategic, membership support and delivery partner”

The Building Research Housing Group (BRHG) – secretariat service

Client: Building Research Housing Group Client challenge: The Building Research Housing Group (BRHG) was formed in April 1992. It has grown to become the largest group of innovative social housing providers, with an overall responsibility for more than one million homes, and spending over £2.2 billion per year on maintenance, management and development. A proactive … Continue reading “The Building Research Housing Group (BRHG) – secretariat service”

High performance, sustainable coated UK timber for exterior applications

A scoping study being conducted for the Forestry Commission The Forestry Commission are supporting a project with BRE that is critically appraising the opportunity for utilising coating technologies on selected UK grown timber to produce a high performance coated exterior wood product. The products under consideration for this technology may be fully factory finished and … Continue reading “High performance, sustainable coated UK timber for exterior applications”

Bio-resins for re-engineered UK wood products

A scoping study being conducted for the Forestry Commission This project aims to provide the platform upon which ForestryCommission can evaluate support for emerging bio-resins and theirapplication in timber re-engineering industry in UK. The study consistsof an appraisal of the status of bio-resins worldwide and the driversand barriers dictating commercial growth, their fitness for purposeand … Continue reading “Bio-resins for re-engineered UK wood products”

Higher machine settings for UK grown Scots Pine

Case study: Forestry Commission:  Scot Pine shows great potential for penetrating higher values markets. In a recent study by BRE for the Forestry Commission (The quality of Scots pine from the Grampianand Cairngorm regions of Scotland), it was identified that the inherent qualities of the material being processed shows great potential for penetrating higher values markets. … Continue reading “Higher machine settings for UK grown Scots Pine”

Modelling Sitka spruce properties

Case study: Forestry Commission: Linking batten performance  to silvicultural models Project Aims: The objective of the project is to develop combined batten performance and silvicultural models, and to apply and validate recent research findings by both organisations in particular from the EU compression wood project and DTi PII project on timber scanning. Project Objectives: Correlate … Continue reading “Modelling Sitka spruce properties”

Better projects, better processes, happier clients, says BIM certified McBains Cooper

McBains Cooper received their BRE Global BIM Business Systems Certification earlier this year and Guy Hammersley, BIM Director at BRE caught up with Director Mark Leeson and BIM Manager Montana Yeomans to find out how this has been reinforcing their existing way of working. How long have you been using BIM in your projects and what have … Continue reading “Better projects, better processes, happier clients, says BIM certified McBains Cooper”

Physical and mental health of urban dwellers could be significantly improved by rethinking transport design

Taking a new approach to designing city streets and other transport infrastructure could make a significant impact on improving public physical and mental health, a report by Arup, BRE, University College London and AREA Research has shown. The study, Health + Mobility: A design protocol for mobilising healthy living, provides civic leaders, city planners and … Continue reading “Physical and mental health of urban dwellers could be significantly improved by rethinking transport design”