BREEAM Consultants & Certifcation
What is BREEAM?
BREEAM, or the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Methodology, is a framework which helps measure the environmental impact of an asset in the built environment. A BREEAM assessment focuses on sustainable value and efficiency throughout a number of lifecycle stages, including new construction, refurbishment and in-use.
How does a BREEAM assessment work?
It focuses on sustainable value across range of categories:
Energy: operational energy and carbon dioxide (CO2)
Management: management policy, commissioning, site management and procurement
Health and Wellbeing: indoor and external issues (noise, light, air, quality etc)
Transport: transport-related CO2 and location related factors
Water consumption and efficiency
Materials: embodied impacts of building materials, including lifecycle impacts like embodied carbon dioxide
Waste: construction resource efficiency and waste management
Pollution: external air and water pollution
Land Use: type of site and building footprint
Ecology: ecological value, conservation and enhancement of the site
Innovation: use of innovative or high-performing features in any category that goes beyond the standard requirement levels
How is a BREEAM assessment scored?
Based upon the aforementioned criteria, our certified BREEAM assessors will award credits or points of a building on various assessment categories, which is then multiplied by an environmental weighting factor.
Upon completion of their assessments, projects will have a BREEAM percentage score that indicates how their sustainability credentials compare to BREEAM’s five rating benchmarks:
