BREEAM Assessments
BREEAM is the established ‘green building' rating system in the UK.
Faithful+Gould and our parent company, Atkins
, have been involved in BREEAM since 1998, and have a team of more than 30 accredited BREEAM assessors worldwide.
We are qualified to assess all types of buildings, and have conducted more than 200 BREEAM assessments.
Our BREEAM services include:
- Formal BREEAM assessments
- BREEAM preliminary assessments
- Strategic early design-stage BREEAM advice and guidance.
What is BREEAM?
BREEAM is the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method, and is essentially a points-based system for rating the environmental performance of buildings.
‘Credits' are grouped under:
- Management
- Health and Wellbeing
- Energy and Transport
- Water
- Materials
- Waste
- Land Use and Ecology
- Pollution
The number of credits earned translates into BREEAM ratings:
| >25% | Pass |
| >40% | Good |
| >55% | Very Good |
| >70% | Excellent |
| >85% | Outstanding |
For further information on BREEAM see www.breeam.org.
Featured event
| Event: | Choosing the right environmental assessment: BREEAM vs LEED |
| Date: | Wednesday February 10, 2010 |
| Location: | Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE), London SW12 9BS |
Do you need to understand what scheme is best for your project? Attend this event to find out what the costs and benefits are of BREEAM / LEED environmental assessments.
This event will enable you to:- Determine which methodology will deliver the best rating for your project
- Understand what the costs and paybacks are of environmental assessments
- Gauge how much work it is to achieve a good rating
- Hear an overview and comparison with BREEAM / LEED
- Obtain information on the Sustainable Buildings Alliance – what is it and how is it going to help?
- Learn about the schemes in the Middle East – do the same rules apply?
- Meet the software requirements for LEED modelling and provide a framework to help guide novice users
Sean Lockie, director of sustainability at Faithful+Gould, will be one of the key speakers at the event.