BREEAM Certification
UK's Top BREEAM Assessors
BREEAM is a great tool to verify the quality of your building. Our experts are accredited for every BREEAM scheme globally and have achieved over 400 certifications. As one of the top BREEAM assessors in the UK, we use BREEAM as a framework to make a development more sustainable, rather than as a tick box exercise. We believe an assessment can make your building more sustainable all round. Our extensive assessment experience covers all work stages from inception right through to use, and covers all use classes of buildings.
BREEAM Certification
UK's Top BREEAM Assessors
BREEAM is a great tool to verify the quality of your building. Our experts are accredited for every BREEAM scheme globally and have achieved over 400 certifications. As one of the top BREEAM assessors in the UK, we use BREEAM as a framework to make a development more sustainable, rather than as a tick box exercise. We believe an assessment can make your building more sustainable all round. Our extensive assessment experience covers all work stages from inception right through to use, and covers all use classes of buildings.
Why BREEAM Matters
The Gold Standard in Sustainable Building
As a leading BREEAM assessment provider, we understand that achieving a BREEAM certification is more than an environmental badge. It’s a commitment to sustainable development, energy efficiency, and responsible design. Our pragmatic approach ensures that your projects meet these high standards without compromising on functionality, aesthetics or cost.
BREEAM for Environmental Excellence
BREEAM-certified buildings are at the forefront of environmental sustainability. By partnering with us for your BREEAM needs, you’re not just ticking boxes; you’re actively reducing carbon footprints, enhancing energy savings, and promoting green building practices. Our team can assist you in using BREEAM to benchmark your whole portfolio of buildings using proprietary tracking systems so you can make improvements year-on-year.
Economic and Social Impact of BREEAM
BREEAM isn’t just good for the environment; it’s good for your bottom line too. We help you navigate the BREEAM process to achieve buildings that are cost-effective, have higher market values, and provide healthier spaces for occupants.
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BREEAM Assessment Services
Tailored BREEAM Strategies for Diverse Projects
Whether it’s BREEAM New Construction, Refurbishment, or a sector-specific assessment like BREEAM for Schools or Healthcare, our services are as diverse as your needs. Our team are experts in the full suite of BREEAM assessments and can align with your project type. Whether you need support at planning stage, the initial design phase or post-construction evaluations, our BREEAM consultancy services guide you at every step. As qualified assessors for both the UK and International BREEAM assessments, we can ensure your project portfolio not only achieves but exceeds BREEAM criteria, setting a new standard in sustainable design.
BREEAM New Construction
BREEAM In Use
BREEAM Refurbishment and Fit Out
BREEAM Communities
Home Quality Mark
BREEAM New Construction
BREEAM New Construction assesses the sustainability of new buildings against a set of rigorous criteria. We’re here to navigate this process with you, offering clear, practical advice and solutions all the way through the building project. From the early design stage to construction completion, our experts work closely with you every step of the way. Our service includes a comprehensive assessment of your project’s design, construction methods, and material selection, ensuring each aspect contributes to the highest BREEAM rating possible. We focus on energy efficiency, water usage, ecological value, and more, ensuring your building is not just sustainable but also cost-effective and future-proof. Our BREEAM consultants work closely with architects, engineers, and developers, ensuring that every decision made is informed by BREEAM principles. Our team ensure the BREEAM New Construction process is as seamless and efficient as possible, so that you can achieve your project ambitions.
BREEAM In Use
Our BREEAM In-Use consultancy services are all about breathing new life into existing buildings. We help you enhance the sustainability and performance of your property, whether it’s an office, retail space, or a multi-residential building. Our team provides expert guidance to improve operational efficiency and reduce environmental impact, turning your existing structures into models of sustainability. BREEAM In-Use is a great way to optimise an asset’s performance and so our BREEAM consultants provide a framework that enables you to reduce operational costs and drive sustainable improvements
BREEAM Refurbishment and Fit Out
When looking to transform and upgrade existing spaces, BREEAM Refurbishment and Fit Out provides opportunities for significant improvement in the building’s sustainability performance. Our experts guide you through the selection of materials, energy systems, and design choices that align with BREEAM’s rigorous standards. We ensure your project not only meets sustainability goals but also enhances occupant comfort and building value.
BREEAM Communities
Our BREEAM consultants can work beyond buildings and focus on broader community scale projects. BREEAM Communities allows you to build sustainable spaces that contribute positively to the wider environment and community. We assist in developing strategies that integrate sustainability into the heart of urban and rural developments. Working closely with planners, developers and local authorities our approach brings everyone together to create strategies to achieve thriving, sustainable communities.
Home Quality Mark
The Home Quality Mark (designed by the BRE) is about setting a new standard for new homes. Our consultancy services for Home Quality Mark focus on ensuring that new residential developments are safe, healthy, and sustainable. We guide you through the assessment process, focusing on aspects like energy efficiency, environmental impact, and wellbeing. With the Home Quality Mark, we aim to create homes that are not only environmentally friendly but also places where people love to live. Our expertise ensures that your residential projects meet these aspirations, delivering homes that are well-designed, built to last, and considerate of their environmental footprint.
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Built Environment Sustainability
All Things Sustainable
Although BREEAM is an essential aspect of a building’s environmental performance, we offer a complete suite of sustainability solutions for all project types. Our diverse team of experts have backgrounds in architecture, planning and development and are qualified sustainability experts for several other environmental assessments. From Energy to Life Cycle Assessments, Air Quality to Daylighting, Flood Risk to Biodiversity, our team have it covered. Plus, we have consultants who can support with other industry frameworks such as EPDs, IEQs and the WELL Standard. All this contributes to a full set of sustainability solutions that allows us to provide you with comprehensive consultancy services.
BREEAM Case Studies
BREEAM Projects in Action
We have been working with organisations for over 15 years to deliver BREEAM excellence. Our experts help clients discover sustainable ways to move forward and deliver successful environmentally impactful projects that achieve the highest BREEAM certification possible. Explore our BREEAM examples below from some of our long-standing clients.
Leading the Way
Being at the forefront of real estate logistics, Prologis are also leading the way in sustainability. We have successfully worked alongside them on this mission for 15 years and supported their sustainability needs across their organisation. One of these projects included a distribution unit of 430,662 sqft that included warehouses, office spaces and parking facilities in the East Midlands. Our BREEAM experts worked alongside them on their latest expansion to optimise the environmental performance of the new structure. This included numerous environmental assessments and strategies at the design stage, some of which included solar PV panels, low energy design, insulation for thermal efficiency, air source heat pumps plus much more. This meant that the warehouse managed to overachieve and earn the highest rating for BREEAM 2018 New Construction Industrial of ‘Outstanding’, and the best possible EPC rating within its size category at the time.
15 Years
partnering together
100+
Assessments certified at PC stage
Achieved BREEAM ‘Excellent’ as a minimum and more recently targeting ‘Outstanding’
Pushing the Boundaries
With an aspiration to be among global leaders in sustainable development, Wrenbridge partner with Eight Versa to deliver a full suite of successful sustainability solutions. A recent project we collaborated on was the Oxford Life Science building which is targeting EPC A+, BREEAM Outstanding and includes onsite renewables such as Solar PV’s. This 43,572 sqft building was an ambitious project where Wrenbridge wanted to push the boundaries and showcase best-in-class sustainable development. With such aspirations, we delivered thorough environmental assessments and consultation on how to get the best possible results.
Pushing the Boundaries
With an aspiration to be among global leaders in sustainable development, Wrenbridge partner with Eight Versa to deliver a full suite of successful sustainability solutions. A recent project we collaborated on was the Oxford Life Science building which is targeting EPC A+, BREEAM Outstanding and includes onsite renewables such as Solar PV’s. This 43,572 sqft building was an ambitious project where Wrenbridge wanted to push the boundaries and showcase best-in-class sustainable development. With such aspirations, we delivered thorough environmental assessments and consultation on how to get the best possible results.
Leaving a Lasting Mark
Goodman, a key player in the real estate logistics industry, places a strong emphasis on sustainability. Over the past 6 years, we’ve collaborated closely with them to bolster their environmental initiatives and deliver BREEAM assessments of all types. Our partnership has encompassed more than 30 BREEAM In Use Assessments, where we evaluated Part 1 Asset Performance that achieved high ratings. Through extensive site visits, inspections, resource inventories, future adaptation reports, lighting surveys, and daylighting modelling, we’ve helped Goodman refine their sustainability strategies across multiple locations in London. We have also actively assisted Goodman in several BREEAM New Construction Assessments which included comprehensive Life Cycle Assessments and Operational Energy Studies. With Goodman leading the way in both industrial real estate logistics and sustainability, our partnership continues to thrive, leaving a lasting mark on the industry.
Leaving a Lasting Mark
Goodman, a key player in the real estate logistics industry, places a strong emphasis on sustainability. Over the past 6 years, we’ve collaborated closely with them to bolster their environmental initiatives and deliver BREEAM assessments of all types. Our partnership has encompassed more than 30 BREEAM In Use Assessments, where we evaluated Part 1 Asset Performance that achieved high ratings. Through extensive site visits, inspections, resource inventories, future adaptation reports, lighting surveys, and daylighting modelling, we’ve helped Goodman refine their sustainability strategies across multiple locations in London. We have also actively assisted Goodman in several BREEAM New Construction Assessments which included comprehensive Life Cycle Assessments and Operational Energy Studies. With Goodman leading the way in both industrial real estate logistics and sustainability, our partnership continues to thrive, leaving a lasting mark on the industry.
BREEAM FAQs
You might have questions about the BREEAM certification process. Here we have addressed a few of the typical BREEAM questions we get asked:
BREEAM stands for “Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method.” It is a sustainability assessment method and certification for buildings, infrastructure, and communities. The Building Research Establishment (BRE) founded the method in 1990 and it is now used in more than 70 countries around the world. To get certified you must appoint a licensed BREEAM Assessor who will review the information and make your submissions to the BRE. A BREEAM Assessor can also support you with the pre-assessment to help you achieve the best rating.
Conducting a BREEAM pre-assessment in the early stages allows for the evaluation of project opportunities. By identifying potential BREEAM credits early on, the project enhances its likelihood of securing the highest certification possible.
There are 5 attainable BREEAM ratings to achieve – Pass, Good, Very Good, Excellent and Outstanding. These levels of certification help provide benchmarks for comparing and improving the environmental impact of buildings.
Less than 1% of buildings have achieved BREEAM Outstanding, and so it takes careful consideration and significant planning to achieve the highest ratings. Only when your project has introduced measures that enhance the buildings environmental performance for the full 9 categories will you have the best chance of achieving the top rating. Engaging with the process early and conducting BREEAM pre-assessments will help you achieve your ambition.
BREEAM certification is not a mandatory requirement for all UK buildings, but local planning authorities often mandate it for specific developments, especially large commercial or public structures. Requirements can differ based on location and project type, highlighting the importance of consulting the local planning authority. Additionally, BREEAM certification may be stipulated by funders, clients, or other stakeholders as a prerequisite for their participation in a project.
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