Justin Bere's Contact Details

Justin Bere's Company Details

bere:architects

N/A, N/A, UK • 10 - 19 Employees
Architecture Firm/Engineering Firm

Bere:architects is one of the UK's foremost Passivhaus practices with a strong emphasis on both design quality and R+D, and winner of numerous design and sustainability awards. Founded by Justin Bere, the practice produced some of the UK's first PH buildings: London's first PH home, UK's first PH Social Housing, UK's first PH CSH level 6 home, UK's first PH non-domestic retrofit, and most recently setting a new benchmark for performance with the UK's first PH Plus home, proven by two years of monitoring. Bere:architects also won both of the BRE PH housing competitions (2009, Ebbw Vale & 2012 Watford). The practice has carried out and published a substantial amount of R+D work with academic partners, some of it funded by the Technology Strategy Board (renamed Innovate), some of it peer-reviewed academic papers, and much of it self-funded, and a substantial amount of this research work is freely available on the practice's website. The practice launched and co-organised the UK's first two annual Passivhaus Conferences in Camden Town Hall in 2010, and Islington Town Hall in 2011 and the first annual student Passivhaus Conference at the University of East London in 2010. These were largely free and hugely successful events that helped increase the PH uptake amongst architects, and launched the Passive House concept to the public and politicians.