BREEAM

A BREEAM assessment represents a broad range of categories and criteria, from energy to ecology, they include:

• Aspects related to water and energy use

• Internal Environment

• Pollution

• Transport

• Materials

• Waste & Ecology

• Management Processes

BREEAM addresses wide ranging environmental and sustainability issues positively influencing the design, construction and management of buildings, while maintaining a robust technical standard with accurate quality certification and assurance. BREEAM groups the environmental impacts as follows:

• Operational energy and carbon-dioxide

• Health and well-being: indoor and external issues (noise, light, air etc)

• Innovation

• Encourages sustainable land use, habitat protection and creation, long term biodiversity, the use of brownfield sites, mitigation and enhancement of ecology

• Embodied impacts of building materials including lifecycle impacts like embodied CO2

• Focus on embodied sustainability actions through the key stages of the design

• External air and water pollution and the impact of noise, light pollution, flooding to the surrounding communities and environment

• Construction resource efficiency and operational waste management and minimisation

• Water consumption and efficiency during the operation of the building and its site

Some Examples of BREEAM Certified buildings are:

Aquatic Centre

Olympic Village

London 2012 Olympic Stadium