Bringing the building envelope into a safer, more integrated, sustainable built environment

Recent issues in construction have demonstrated the complexity of delivering a safe, integrated and sustainable building envelope. An expert community from research, the construction industry and policy was invited to come together for two workshops held in January 2022, to identify the key questions around the delivery of a safer, more integrated and sustainable building envelope. This briefing highlights the challenges currently faced in the built environment and sets out how a truly interdisciplinary building envelope network can address these challenges. UCL BERN, the Building Envelope Research Network, is a UCL cross-faculty research network established to help integrate knowledge of the building envelope into UCL’s research and teaching programmes