BUILDING RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT LIMITED

1. BUILDING RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT LIMITED 1997-03-21 → present
2. PACETYPE LIMITED 1997-02-17 → 1997-03-21

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Crowe U.K. LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“Taking all this information together the Directors consider that there is a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for a period of at least 12 months from the date of approval of these financial statements and for these reasons the Directors continue to adopt the 'going concern' basis in preparing the financial statements.”

Group structure

1. BUILDING RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT LIMITED · parent
   1. Building Research Establishment Shenzhen Limited 100%
   2. Constructing Excellence Limited
   3. BRE America Holdings Inc. 100% · USA
   4. BRE Canada Inc 100% · Canada
   5. BRE International Limited 100%
   6. Building Performance Group Limited 100%
   7. EFSG Limited
   8. The Loss Prevention Certification Board Limited 100%

Significant events

• “The results for the Company show a profit on ordinary activities before taxation of £4,012k (2024: £1,503k profit) for the year on turnover of £17,133k (2024: £14,108k).”
• “The year ended 31 March 2025 has been a profitable year for the Company, which achieved an operating profit before revaluation of investment property of £4,742k (2024: £2,830k).”
• “During the year, it has come to light that the actuarial valuation of the defined benefit pension scheme, which is closed to future accruals, undervalued the liabilities in the year ended 31 March 2021, due to the uncertainties inherent in the Covid pandemic.”
• “The pension scheme valuation at 31 March 2025 shows a decrease in liabilities on the restated comparative valuation following the year's payments into the scheme and a recent valuation which has had a favourable impact on reserves of £1,874k.”
• “Turnover for the year amounted to £17,133k (2024: £14,108k) which is an increase in turnover of 21%, mainly driven by 10% price increase in Housing Data and Insights Teams and increased government grant project income in Consultancy insights.”
• “The Company's operating profit is £5,455k for the year (2024: £2,369k profit) a 30% increase in profit over the previous year due to higher income and increased efficiency across the business has resulted in a lower proportion of costs compared to prior year.”
• “BRE commissioned a desk top review of the value of the property at BRE's site in Watford. The results of this review were a gain on the revaluation of investment properties on the site of £713k, due to positive trends in the local property market. There was also an increase in the value of fixed asset land and buildings of £517k.”
• “We successfully implemented a new HR self-service platform.”
• “We also made significant progress in advancing gender equality, reducing our Gender Pay Gap from 12% to 8%.”
• “Our Colleague Forum was strengthened through the introduction of new Terms of Reference and a formal election process.”
• “Employee wellbeing remained a priority throughout the year. Sickness absence levels were consistently below the national average.”
• “We delivered organisation-wide training on preventing sexual harassment.”
• “We launched our new Sustainable Built Environment Strategy that outlines our environmental ambitions to 2030.”
• “We maintained zero non-hazardous waste to landfill, increased our recycling rate.”
• “BRE is continuing to invest heavily in digital development for our products and our systems and processes.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

7

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

2

last 12 months

Officers resigned

1

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +21.4%

  £14,108,000 → £17,133,000

• Cash

  +43.8%

  £5,196,000 → £7,471,000

• Net assets

  +32.5%

  -£19,731,000 → -£13,328,000

• Employees

  +6.8%

  324 → 346

• Operating profit

  +130.3%

  £2,369,000 → £5,455,000

• Profit before tax

  +166.9%

  £1,503,000 → £4,012,000

• Wages

  +6.5%

  £17,128,000 → £18,233,000

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers