BREEAM Version 7: Setting New Standards in Sustainability and Wellbeing
BREEAM Version 7 provides a comprehensive overhaul designed to align with evolving global standards and the latest sustainability practices. It promises to set new standards for building performance and pushes the boundaries of occupant wellbeing.
For an in-depth look at the updates, check out our popular post, “BREEAM v7 Has Landed: This Is What You Need to Know“. Below are a few examples of the changes:
- Health, wellbeing and comfort: There are changes in health, wellbeing and comfort credits with significant updates from previous daylighting requirements.
- Energy and Carbon: The focus has shifted from demand metrics to performance outcomes, offering more flexibility in compliance methods and alignment with EU Taxonomy compliance.
- Carbon and Materials: The LCA criteria now focus on calculating and reporting embodied carbon at different stages of a building’s lifecycle. An LCA is now required at concept design, technical design, and the as-built stages.
- Sustainable Sites and ecology: Projects should now align with standards such as ISO18400, EU Taxonomy and Biodiversity Net Gain with additional methodologies for sites with low or zero biodiversity baselines, encouraging exceedance of minimum ecological requirements.
Expert Support
- Key changes, new requirements and the benefits and challenges to the update
- Can you still achieve Excellent or Outstanding? Review of how your current project would perform under V7 including score comparison
- How do you maximise your score in V7: understanding the credit weighting changes, and what are the likely cost implications
- What decisions you need to take now to help you prepare and get ahead
Our team can offer tailored support for you and provide in-depth advice on BREEAM, energy, health and wellbeing and ecology. Please get in touch to register for our upcoming webinar, book a free CPD tailored to your company or a 1-1 meeting to discuss your specific projects in more detail and stay ahead of the curve. We pride ourselves on our detailed BREEAM knowledge and tackling challenges and look forward to hearing from you.
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