Glasgow - BREEAM HEA03 Thermal Comfort - 0141 894 0107

The counties covered by this office are:
Fife, West Lothian, Dumfries and Galloway, County Londonderry, County Armagh, Clackmannanshire, Aberdeenshire, Inverness-shire, County Antrim, Grampian, Tayside, Lanarkshire, County Fermanagh, Dunbartonshire, Argyll, Perthshire, Banffshire, Borders, County Down, Highlands and Islands, Strathclyde, Ayrshire, Lothian, Renfrewshire, County Tyrone, Central, Stirlingshire,

Phone Number: 0141 894 0107 Email: glasgow@e2consultants.co.uk

BREEAM is sometimes referred to as BREEAM Assessment Ratings, BREEAM Assessments, BREEAM Rating, BREEAM Reports, BREEAM Assessors.

What Are The Benefits of BREEAM?

A BREEAM certification is a way of validating how good a building in Glasgow is in terms of the environmental impact through a globally recognised standard. It's the hope that the BREEAM assessment will help building owners and designers to improve their carbon footprint and make better use of their resources.

BREEAM aims to show that by building with the local area in mind, though capital costs may increase, you should save on operational costs in the long-term. This limits investor costs and makes the building more attractive when it comes to selling.

How Is BREEAM Assessed?

Covering a range of environmental issues in Glasgow, BREEAM looks at a building's impact on transport, waste, energy, health, water, pollution, materials, management and ecology to assess whether a building is Outstanding, Excellent, Very Good, Good or a Pass. Covering more than 50 countries and 250,000 buildings, BREEAM's aim is to educate building owners, designers and occupants about their impact on the local area.

What Is A BREEAM Rating?

The BREEAM ratings for a new, non-domestic building in Glasgow are:

• Pass: standard good practice (top 75%)
• Good: intermediate good practice (top 50%)
• Very Good: advanced good practice (top 25%)
• Excellent: best practice (top 10%)
• Outstanding: innovator (top 1%)

It used to be that 'Good' was the maximum level that could be achieved with 100% being the maximum score in Glasgow from a BREEAM assessment. However, in 2008, a new 'Outstanding' category was added - although the percentages required for each level remained the same.

How To Achieve BREEAM Excellence

The scoring for a BREEAM assessment in Glasgow is as follows:

• Outstanding: 85%+
• Excellent: 70%+
• Very Good: 55%+
• Good: 45%+
• Pass: 30%+
• Unclassified: <30%

What Does BREEAM Stand For?

First published by the Building Reseearch Establishment (BRE) in 1990 covering buildings across Glasgow, BREEAM stands for Building Research Establishment's Enviromental Assement Method.

Book Your BREEAM Assessment

For further information or to book your BREEAM assessment in Glasgow, call one of your BREEAM assessors on 0141 894 0107 or email breeam@e2consultants.co.uk.