BRE BR487 PDF

Introduction

Good designers have always sought to provide functional, cost-effective and pleasing buildings for their clients. BRE first published Principles of modern building in 1938-9. In the introduction to the 3rd edition in 1959, the Director of Building Research stated the objective as:

‘to help the reader to grasp principles, to sense the interconnection of requirements, and to appreciate their relative importance in particular circumstances....There is relatively little change, however, in the basic requirements that a building must satisfy; strength and durability, exclusion of the weather, admission of light and air, control of noise, and so on, at reasonable cost....What materials, put together in what ways, what methods of design,