New BRE Trust research programme tackles built environment resilience
7th April 2015

Wind loading, including windows, doors and conservatories, will be part of a major three year funding programme launched by the BRE Trust to improve the resilience of buildings and infrastructure to the growing threats of damage associated with climate change.

“Last year’s devastating floods and storms revealed our vulnerability to extreme weather and were indicative of wider resilience problems,” said Guy Hammersley, BRE Group Board Director, Research & Innovation. “Our built environment is struggling to cope with a rapidly changing world, and there is an urgent need to strengthen its resistance to short-term shocks and long-term change – and to improve its ability to quickly recover from crises.”

The Trust, is funding a Resilient Built Environment themed research programme. The research will be closely aligned with the work of the BRE Centre for Resilience, created in 2014 to address adverse weather effects, as well as social, security and disaster issues. The BRE University Centres of Excellence are an integral part of the Centre and will also be fully integrated into the programme.

Wind loading will be one of five initial projects to be tackled by the programme, which starts this month.

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