BRE - a purpose driven organisation
Our Expertise
Our expertise is used to tackle today’s toughest global challenges, like climate change, and the safety and security of buildings and infrastructure. Our market-leading standard BREEAM is helping projects to improve biodiversity and sustainability for local communities around the world. We are also an international provider of robust, independent, third-party certification for fire, security and environmental products and services.
About BRE
Founded in 1921, the Building Research Establishment (BRE) has been raising the standards of the built environment for over a century. BRE started as a UK government-funded, research-based organisation, and has become an ambitious profit-for-purpose global business. We re-invest any profit we make back into our business, so that we can deliver on our purpose to develop science-led solutions to built environment challenges.
Read about BRE TrustBRE’s purpose and vision
BRE contributes to a thriving and sustainable world by developing science-led solutions to built environment challenges. Our vision is to be the world-leading innovation, science, and data hub for the built environment. We’re ambitious in terms of quality and global scope. We want governments and commercial markets to recognise us and demand our services, products and solutions. We want to be world-class, innovative, science-led and provide solutions.
See our vision, values and purpose.We are a science, innovation and data hub for the built environment
At BRE, quality and excellence are non-negotiable. Our deep understanding of technical performance and materials is based on decades of testing, data gathering and analysis. This forms the basis of our unparalleled expertise; we use it to provide governments, private companies and people with the insight they need to make informed decisions to invest, develop, build and maintain their assets. On a daily basis, we can be testing the safety of the smallest component, and assuring the energy efficiency of an entire building.
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We offer companies competitive edge and sustainable advantage
We bring together talent and expertise to create globally recognised policies and schemes. Our world-leading BREEAM certification is proven to raise the profile, credibility and value of built environment projects. BRE certified products and services are listed in BRE’s Red or Green Books to give specifiers confidence in their safety and sustainability. Around the world, market leaders continue to request BRE standards and achieve BRE accreditations in their projects.
Browse our productsWe are experts in sustainability and safety
Our teams specialise in virtually every element of the built environment including energy, net zero, sustainability, fire safety and security. We share our expert knowledge of the built environment through BRE Academy, our world-leading training provision for built environment professionals. From training in BREEAM to Indoor Environmental Quality, our courses are globally recognised.
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We drive innovation and research in the built environment
We operate internationally, with offices, representatives and partners around the globe and in the UK at the BRE Science Park, home to our world-class testing facilities and the Innovation Zone. It hosts full-scale demonstration buildings, designed and developed by innovative start-ups and leading developers. It also showcases a range of approaches to sustainable design, construction and refurbishment.
Explore the BRE Science ParkWe create science-led solutions for a better future worldwide
Our long heritage of putting progressive thinking into practice means that our customers and partners, wherever they are in the world, trust our data and science. Our evidence shows that safe, sustainable buildings contribute to better economic, social, health and personal outcomes. The standards, safety and sustainability solutions we develop lead the way on the world stage.
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BRE’s impact
We’ve improved the sustainability of over a million buildings worldwide. Here's some of the valuable work we have done and continue to do.
BRE Supports Sustainable Energy Association's Report
How decarbonising the built environment is the key to meeting net zero
International partnership to unlock power of sustainable finance
BRE to provide sustainable development training to China
BRE and USGBC announce new partnership
Get in touch
For more information, call us on +443333218811, email us at enquiries@bregroup.com or use the online form.
Join us
We’re always looking for people who are committed to making a positive difference to the built environment. BRE offers a wide range of varied and interesting careers in the built environment, including energy, net zero sustainability, fire safety and security.
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