Portal sites are the current fashion.
Following general internet portals such as Yahoo and AltaVista, came industry-specific portals, of which a number already exist for the construction and built environment professions. Quite simply, because to be useful, a portal site must be authoritative and independent. AskBRE is both. This is a new departure for BRE, an organisation which is already well known as the UK's top construction research body, and which is well placed to provide a steady flow of online sites, as well as high-quality analysis. As it has done throughout its seventy-year history, BRE will act as an objective, impartial store of information for the industry, only today it is using the Internet as a means of disseminating this information.