BREEAM ASSESSMENT & CONSULTANCY
How we can help
Hannan Associates provide a comprehensive BREEAM Assessment and BREEAM Advisory Professional service.
We are highly proficient in the techniques and processes required to design and achieve BREEAM certification to the highest standards.
BREEAM Assessment Services
Our team have extensive experience in the field of sustainability certification & assessment for buildings and have devised a suite of bespoke documents tailored to streamline the process and provide a highly efficient service.
Our team is fully qualified under the BREEAM UK New Construction schemes and can assess the following buildings:
BREEAM V6 / 2018
BREEAM Offices
BREEAM Healthcare
BREEAM Education
BREEAM Communities
BREEAM Other Buildings
BREEAM Retail
BREEAM Industrial
BREEAM Residential
BREEAM Prisons & Law Courts
BREEAM Advisory Professional Service
We also provide our clients with a stand alone BREEAM Advisory Professional service (BREEAM AP).
The BREEAM AP provides the design team with guidance and support from the early stages of the design process, through to construction, to ensure that good environmental and sustainability practice is incorporated into a building in an efficient and cost-effective manner.
Often sustainability is not considered until the technical design and specification stage of a project, by which time many opportunities for including sustainability measures may have been missed and the required BREEAM rating unobtainable.
The BREEAM AP should be appointed to the design team pre-planning, so that these opportunities can be highlighted and acted upon early, thus avoiding expensive last minute ‘bolt-on’ solutions that are sometimes needed to reach specified BREEAM targets.
This is particularly important under BREEAM 2018, as there is even more onus on early action. It is unrealistic to expect an Excellent BREEAM rating when the early actions have not been completed.
Our BREEAM AP will help you achieve the following early actions required under BREEAM 2018:
Man02 – Elemental LCC (QS)
Mat01 – Materials Embodied Life Cycle Assessment (PM + Architect; LCA Specialist)
Eneo4 – Passive Design + L2C Feasibility (ME)
Tra01 – Travel Plans + Assessment (Transport)
Mat03 – Sustainable Procurement Plan (Developer)
WSt01 – Pre-demolition Audits (Developer)
WSt05 – Climate Change Adaption Appraisal (Architect)
Wst06 – Disassembly + Functional Adaptability Studies (Architect)
Please see our blog on BREEAM New Construction 2018 for further details on achieving these early actions.
Life Cycle Assessment Services
Hannan Associates now has in house expertise to deliver LCA & LCC reporting and analysis, using an IMPACT Compliant tool to support the following BREEAM credits:
Mat 01 Environmental impacts from construction products – Building life cycle assessment (LCA) – helping project teams to understand the overall environmental impact of the building design
Man 02 – Life cycle cost (LCC) and service life planning – providing greater confidence in future operational and maintenance costs.
What is BREEAM?
The Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) is the leading and most widely used environmental assessment method for buildings.
It was launched by BRE (the building Research Establishment) in 1990 and is recognised for setting the standard for best practice in sustainable design. It has become the industry standard to measure a building’s environmental performance.
The BREEAM assessment method is designed to recognise and reward performance above regulation, which delivers sustainable benefits in environmental, comfort and health sectors.
During the assessment process ‘Credits’ are awarded under certain environmental categories shown below:
Environmental Categories
Management
Health and Well Being
Energy
Transport
Water
Materials
Waste
Land Use and Ecology
Pollution
The overall score is determined by multiplying the number of credits per sector by an environmental weighting factor which takes into account the relative importance of each section.
Once the overall score for the building is known this is translated into a rating on a scale of:
The BREEAM Assessor works with the project team to manage this assessment process prior to checking by the certification body, BRE Global.
BREEAM New Construction V7 – What are the changes?
BREEAM V7 (version 7) is the latest version of BREEAM and is due out by the end of September 2025.
We have received early copies of the manual and the key changes focus on decarbonisation, both embodied and operational emissions.
We can help you understand the implications these changes will have on future projects so you can plan ahead and avoid any unpleasant surprises.
Energy and Carbon
Reduced emphasis on the demand metric and more focus on performance outcomes.
New credits that focus on the prediction of a building’s operational energy use and carbon emissions aligned with NABERS.
Change to EV charging requirements that require a minimum allocation of 10% of parking spaces for EV charging stations and installing cable routes for 20% of parking spaces is required.
A new credit related to flexible demand response that recognises installed electrical building systems which have the capability to automatically modify their electricity consumption patterns in response to signals from the electricity supplier there by supporting grid stability and reducing peak energy use.
A new credit that requires installed controls that enable building servicing systems to respond more efficiently to the demand for energy services.
Health and Wellbeing
New credits rewarding advanced lighting control systems that enhance both comfort and energy efficiency and the benefits of lighting that supports a healthy circadian rhythm. Updated approach to daylight calculations.
Ecology and Pollution
New requirements promoting sustainable site selection practices and updates that include new benchmarks to align with English Biodiversity Net Gain law.
New prerequisite that mandates all refrigerant gases have zero ozone depletion potential.
Carbon and Materials
BREEAM ‘Excellent’ now requires LCA and embodied carbon reporting, while ‘Outstanding’ ratings require a minimum of five credits to be achieved.
A new methodology for Building Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) that includes calculations and reporting of LCA and Embodied carbon at building level during concept design, technical design, and post-construction.
Water
A new credit that requires projects to predict water consumption based on expected occupancy rather than standard occupancy.
Projects can earn up to two standard credits and two exemplary credits for accurately predicting water use, setting targets for in-use water consumption, and committing to measuring actual water use post-occupancy.
Contact our dedicated BREEAM advisors
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