Books published by IHS BRE Press

EU health and safety legislation is based on the fundamental principle of assessing risk. This guide, aimed at building owners and/or users, looks at the issues to consider and the techniques and information sources available to improve the management of risks in commercial and industrial buildings.

Improve your material resource efficiency and benefit from cost savings, reduced environmental impact and an enhanced company reputation. This guide describes the material resource efficiency requirements in BREEAM and provides practical advice for all involved in construction projects, especially clients, designers and contractors.

Get updated practical guidance for reducing the concentration of radon in new buildings, extensions, conversions and refurbishment projects. This guide includes updated radon maps.

BRE has measured fuel poverty on behalf of the UK government since the 1990s. This publication discusses current and historical definitions of fuel poverty and shows how fuel poverty has been measured at national and local levels. It is aimed at housing associations, energy suppliers, policymakers, energy consultants and academics.

Get inside knowledge about Phase Change Materials (latent heat technology) and how they are being used in building applications. Find out what PCMs are, how they work, their benefits, current technical developments and available products.

Find out about building regulation requirements for energy efficiency in dwellings and how to comply with them using fabric first principles

This guide to applying external and internal insulation to solid walls gives advice for surveyors, designers and installers on assessing the potential risks and reducing the likelihood of long-term problems.

Can LEDs keep you awake at night and damage your brain? Can special lighting help people with dementia? Find out how lighting (including daylighting) can affect the health of people in buildings

Understand the benefits and impacts of windows and identify opportunities for improvements to their environmental performance. This report reviews how window units and frames have been assessed within The Green Guide to Specification.

Understand the significant benefits and impacts of biomaterials and biomass over their whole life cycle and identify opportunities for improvements to their environmental performance. This report reviews how biomaterials and biomass have been assessed within The Green Guide to Specification.

Learn how to minimise the effects of thermal bridging or inconsistency in thermal envelope performance when designing and installing solid wall insulation during refurbishment. This guide sets out clear methods for reducing thermal bridging effects.

Provides results of four surveys covering the differences between the UK housing stocks

Explores the concrete supply strategy for the Olympic Park and the Olympic and Paralympic Village, including how it reduced embodied carbon emissions of the facilities and infrastructure, and influenced the carbon footprint of the London 2012 Games.

Do buildings with high sustainability standards necessarily cost more to develop than those that simply comply with building regulations? This publication reports on a study designed to answer that question using real cost information.

Learn how to best use wood residue from the urban timber resource. This guide gives details on selecting species and processing methods to enable both common and exotic UK urban tree species to enter the solid wood market.

Learn how to calculate thermal transmittance and mass values of building materials in a unified and consistent way. Includes eight worked examples for wall, roof and floor designs.

Explains the use of wood-based fuels for space and water heating in buildings, and outlines the fuels and boiler options. Discusses supply chain, planning and regulations. Includes 24 case studies. Reviews the case for renewable energy.

Review the environmental issues and performances relevant to insulation in the Green Guide to Specification with this report and reduce the environmental impact of your buildings.

Review the environmental issues and performances relevant to vertical cladding in the Green Guide to Specification with this report and reduce the environmental impact of your buildings.

The funding of UK carbon reduction projects is explored by surveying potential sources of supply and demand for such emission reductions and examining regulatory hurdles. A comprehensive reporting framework is recommended.