This guide provides practical information on assessing the risk of fire and enhancing the security of places of worship of all faiths.
A practical guide to assessing the risk of fire and enhancing the security of retail premises. It identifies the important issues, and encourages an approach in which good fire safety and security practice become familiar and normal to employees.
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.
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.
Gives an overview of ground behaviour and geotechnics, focusing on shallow foundations for low-rise buildings. Written for non-experts, and their professional advisers, the book brings together guidance published by BRE over a number of years.
A BRE handbook produced to assist engineers and designers in the interpretation of BS 6399 Part 3 on imposed roof loading, especially in the calculation of snow loads on roofs.
A summary of unique research to quantify how much the improvements to social housing arising from the Decent Homes programme (2001–2010) have reduced costs to the NHS in treating housing-related injuries and illnesses.
This book includes 39 papers about the use of fibres to improve the toughness and ductility of concrete in industrial floors, tunnels, mining and security structures and heavy duty pavements
This is a practical introduction to an issue that is all too often overlooked in new building and refurbishment... Læs mere
This guide provides good practice guidance for architects, designers and housing practitioners in the development of inclusive domestic environments that meet the requirements of people with sight loss.
Provides results of four surveys covering the differences between the UK housing stocks