Innovative construction materials

The BRE Centre for Innovative building Materials (BRE CICM) conducts leading analysis, development and consultancy in neuro-scientific revolutionary and sustainable construction products and technologies.

The Centre is leading the way in investigating answers to the environmental effects of building and infrastructure. Building the usage of radical, low-carbon building products and support technologies for the construction industry, the Centre is helping in decreasing the UK’s eco impact - vital to mitigate the projected doubling of cement-based CO2 emissions by 2050.

Analysis tasks

The study interests and activities associated with Centre fall under these broad meanings:

ECO-SEE

The BRE Centre for Innovative Construction products is leading EU FP7 task ECO-SEE in building employing eco-materials and photocatalytic coatings to enhance the indoor air quality of contemporary carbon buildings. The consortium is made up of 17 partners including universities, research organizations, big businesses, and small & method companies.

BaleHaus: prefabricated straw bale construction

BaleHaus is a project exploring the construction of domiciles utilizing straw bale, a perfect material for environmentally friendly construction because green nature. A two-storey BaleHaus was built on campus using ‘ModCell’ – a system that utilises straw bale to form prefabricated panels. The BaleHaus ended up being officially established by Kevin McCloud in '09.

Building analysis park

The recently developed Building Research Park is an open-to-the-elements facility situated at Wroughton Airfield, revealing the website with the Science Museum, in which they store a huge range of items perhaps not at this time on screen. The park is host to your EPSRC-funded HIVE project, while offering the ability of full-scale study into building materials and methods making use of 16 re-configurable study buildings.

The HIVE

The HIVE is an experimental building financed by the EPSRC (EP/K040391/1 and EP/L005689/1), and by the University of Bath. It really is located in the Building analysis Park at Wroughton Airfield. The HIVE offers a framework around which studies can be built by RCUK scientists yet others.

HEMPSEC

The BRE Centre for Revolutionary building Materials is leading an EU CIP Eco-Innovation task HEMPSEC (332972) in a task aimed at the introduction to the EU marketplace of a prefabricated, pre-dried composite hemp-lime panel wall. This task is intended to help make a significant share towards the EU-wide carbon reduction targets. The consortium includes six lovers across three countries in europe.

Analysis students

• Alastair Marsh
• Amber Wismayer
• Andrea Giampiccolo
• Anna Chaliasou
• Atif Hussain
• Bengt Cousins-Jenvey
• Carla florbela da Silva
• Chee Beng Ong
• Cong Zhang
• Cristiano Figueiredo
• David Muddle
• Eliana Cortes
• Fiona Gleed
• Glavije Amirjamshidi
• Graham Mustard
• Joe Williams
• Hannah Pearson
• Kaloyana Kostova
• Kofi Abora
• Marta Leskard
• Mohamed Alazhari
• Monika Grusova
• Muzzamil Shakil
• Naomi Deering
• Natasha Watson
• Neal Holcroft
• Paul Westgate
• Paulo Almeida Mendes
• Puxi Huang
• Rachel Coonan
• Sarah Scannell
• Stella Kioy
• Stephen Davey
• Vesna Raicic
• Will Most Likely Hawkins
• Xunzhi Yin
• Yadgar Tayfur
• Yuanzhang Yang

Scholarships

We welcome students with a First Class or 2:1 Honours level who want to study for a PhD.

For University Research Scholarships, implement by 31 December for studies from October these 12 months.

The center has actually state-of-the-art services to support many research projects, including:

• Purpose-built frameworks laboratory
• Geotechnical laboratory
• Rammed Earth and ‘eco' products analysis laboratory
• Concrete planning laboratory
• Liquids laboratory
• Timber preparation and timber research laboratory
• Ecological chambers
• Thermal conductivity testing
• Analytical facilities including caloritometry, SEM, TGA, XRD
• DVS
• 3-Flex area analyser and porosimeter

A number of our jobs involve collaboration with professional lovers. We're at this time working together with:

• Arup
• Atkins
• BRE
• Buro Happold
• Clayworks
• Concrete Repairs Ltd
• Engineers without edges
• Journey Engineering
• Fraunhofer
• Tony Gee and partners
• Ibstock Brick
• Integrated Engineering Design
• Organization of Civil Engineers
• Institution of Structural Designers
• Lafarge
• Lhoist Analysis and Developing
• Lime Tech Ltd
• ModCell Ltd
• Mouchel
• System Rail
• Odgers Conservation
• Parsons Brinkerhoff
• Ramboll
• Rotafix Ltd
• Singleton Birch
• Technalia
• Ty-Mawr Lime
• White Design Associates.