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Clients choose BREEAM certification because it helps them deliver and validate the sustainability value of their assets cost effectively and to an internationally recognised and robust standard, tried and tested since it was first launched in 1990.
In doing so BREEAM helps clients manage and mitigate risk through demonstrating sustainability performance during planning, design, construction, operation or refurbishment, helping to lower running costs, maximise returns through market value and attract and retain tenants with desirable places to live and work.

GLOBAL
NETWORK OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERTS

HOLISTIC
SUSTAINABILITY MEASUREMENT & BENCHMARKING

TRUSTED
INDEPENDENT CERTIFICATION MARK

ADAPTABLE
TO LOCAL & CLIMATIC CONDITIONS

Balancing cost and life cycle value

Reducing operational costs

Helping to limit investor and developer risk

Making assets more attractive to let, sell or retain

Creating productive and healthy places to live and work

Supporting UN Sustainable Development Goals

The foundation of BREEAM is The Code for a Sustainable Built Environment, which is a strategic international framework for sustainability assessment of the built environment, also known as The Code. The Code consists of a set of strategic principles and requirements which define an integrated approach to the design, construction, management, evaluation and certification of the environmental, social and economic impacts across the full life cycle of the built environment. The Code is interpreted through a Core Technical Standard and a Core Process Standard, both supported by Core Science.

The Code for a Sustainable Built Environment

The BREEAM Core Standards interpret The Code as two separate but linked documents, one focusing on technical and the other on process/operational requirements. These documents list the requirements that each scheme and scheme operator must comply with in order to be affiliated with BREEAM.

The Code provides a balanced approach minimising impacts on the global and local environment; and maximising the following:

resource efficiency

health, wellbeing, comfort, safety and security of users and others

social and cultural value

opportunities for effective and efficient use of facilities

direct and indirect economic benefits

Compliance with The Code, requires the standards, benchmarks, methodologies and guidance in all BREEAM schemes to be:

Based on robust, peer reviewed science

Based on a holistic and balanced consideration of benefits and burdens to stakeholders

Independently audited where leading to formal certification or external claims of performance

Fully and openly documented in terms of their scientific basis, inclusivity, technical requirements and operational principles

Based on established regulatory, construction and management practices and protocols to maximise relevance and acceptability

The Code's framework enables BRE Global Ltd to apply the principles of robust science and independence, which have always underpinned BREEAM, to drive sustainability across the built environment and on a global scale. A key feature of the framework is the ability to allow organisations in other countries to adapt BREEAM to their local context and affiliate their processes, products and tools with BREEAM across all life cycle stages of the built environment. At the same time, it ensures that the key underpinning standards are applied consistently but in a market focused way.

Fostering confidence to innovate

Since its inception, BREEAM has been driving innovation and change in the design, construction and operation of our buildings. More recently it has extended its reach beyond the building and into the wider built environment. It has influenced policy, regulation, standards and industry practices around the world and remains at the leading edge. Learn more.

Alan Yates
Technical Director
BRE Global

Sustainability and trust

All the Directors as well as every BREEAM employee, both past and present are passionate about what we do, it's not just the BREEAM standards that are the result of extensive research and learning from worldwide best practise, but also our collaborative work with the construction industry, which helps us drive improvements to create amazing buildings and sustainable market transformation that we all seek. Learn more.

Martin Townsend
Sustainability Director
BRE Global

Click below to find out how, as an accredited third party certification body, we ensure trust and confidence in BREEAM standards and our certification mark.

Independence - Have confidence that the charitable ownership of BRE ensures BREEAM is independent of specific commercial interests

BREEAM and the BRE Group of companies is owned by the BRE Trust, the largest UK charity dedicated specifically to research and education in the built environment. The research commissioned and published by the Trust, paid for through the profits of the BRE Group, provides authoritative guidance to the construction industry and contributes to the science-base behind BREEAM. By using BREEAM you are investing in the future of your industry and playing your part in building a better world.

Expertise - Have trust in a technical standard built on sound science and informed by its application and users

Achieving the BREEAM aim requires a technical standard that is founded on the basis of sound science, practical in its application from a market perspective and flexible enough to encourage and recognise innovative solutions to the impacts it measures. As well as drawing on the expertise and many years' experience of BRE as a building science and research centre, we collaborate with a range of industry stakeholder groups, professional experts and users. This collaboration ensures our standards are open to external and independent scrutiny. To learn more about how you can get involved visit our research and development page and view our latest consultations.

Accreditation - Have confidence in our capability, impartiality and integrity

Accreditation is the process and requirements by which bodies are recognised by Governments to provide assurance services. Accreditation bodies assess, against internationally agreed standards, organisations that provide certification, testing, inspection and calibration services. In the UK for example, the United Kingdom Accreditation Service is the sole national accreditation body recognised by the UK government. BRE Global is a United Kingdom Accreditation Service accredited certification body and the scope of our accreditation includes BREEAM.
The scope of our accreditation
BRE Global Ltd is proud to be accredited by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) against BS EN ISO/IEC 17065:2012 - General requirements for bodies operating product certification systems for providing certification activities associated with the assessment of environmental performance of:

Masterplanning

New construction of infrastructure & buildings

Buildings in use

Refurbishment of buildings

In addition, BRE Global Ltd also accredited against BS EN ISO/IEC 17024:2012 - Conformity assessment: General requirements for bodies operating certification of persons in relation to the UK Government owned standard The Code for Sustainable Homes and its network of assessors.

Finally, BRE Global is also certified to ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management for all of its BREEAM related activities. ISO 9001 is based on a number of quality management principles including a strong customer focus, the motivation and implication of top management, the process approach and continual improvement.

Governance - Have trust in safeguards that uphold your interest in our certification activities

As an accredited certification body, BRE Global maintains an open and accountable governance structure that, amongst other things, safeguards impartiality. The Governing Body fulfils this role and provides guidance and advice to BRE Global through the wide knowledge and experience of the Governing Body members. For more detail about the Governing Body visit here.

Impartiality - Beyond reproach is the BRE Way, it differentiates us from our competitors and can help you to succeed

Stakeholders can have confidence in our certifications because we conduct them and our business in a fair and impartial manner, and with avoidance of undue influence arising from conflicts of interest. We maintain impartiality by apply a number of principles and these can be viewed in our Statement of Impartiality.

A trusted mark - BREEAM certification is a mark that you and your customers and stakeholders can trust

Achieving certification is about saying what you do, doing what you say and proving that you have done it. There are many different types of certification, the most authoritative being that from an accredited third party certification body, such as BRE Global. Third party certification is independent, impartial and issued by a competent organisations. The BREEAM certification mark provides assurance that the assessment of a project conforms to the requirements of the scheme, which in turn gives confidence that the asset performs to the stated, BREEAM compliant, specification.

BREEAM works with a number of organisations establishing partnerships that promote sustainability internationally and at a local level. Visit the Location page or Contact Us to find out more about schemes and the scheme operators in your country.

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Cultural Industries Quarter

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Front view of the building