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Sowrby Bridge - BREEAM HEA05 Acoustic Performances - 01924 578 029
The office that covers this area is: Wakefield
Phone Number: 01924 578 029 Email: sowrby-bridge@e2consultants.co.uk
BREEAM is sometimes referred to as BREEAM Assessment Ratings, BREEAM Reports, BREEAM Assessors, BREEAM Rating, BREEAM Assessments.
How To Achieve BREEAM Excellence
The scoring for a BREEAM assessment in Sowrby Bridge is as follows:
- Outstanding: 85%+
- Excellent: 70%+
- Very Good: 55%+
- Good: 45%+
- Pass: 30%+
- Unclassified: <30%
How Is BREEAM Assessed?
Covering a range of environmental issues in Sowrby Bridge, 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 Are The Benefits of BREEAM?
A BREEAM certification is a way of validating how good a building in Sowrby Bridge 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.
Book Your BREEAM Assessment
For further information or to book your BREEAM assessment in Sowrby Bridge, call one of your BREEAM assessors on 01924 578 029 or email breeam@e2consultants.co.uk.
What Is A BREEAM Rating?
The BREEAM ratings for new, non-domestic buildings in Sowrby Bridge are as follows: Pass (standard good practice) for the top 75%, Good (intermediate good practice) for the top 50%. Very Good (advanced good practice) for top 25%. Excellent (best practice) for top 10% and Outstanding innovator) for the top 1%.
The maximum score a building can achieve in Sowrby Bridge is 100% from a BREEAM assessment. It used to be that 'Good' was the maximum level that could be achieved, however in 2008 a new 'Outstanding' category was added. The percentage required for each level remained the same despite this.
What Does BREEAM Stand For?
BREEAM stands for Building Research Establishment's Enviromental Assement Method and was first published in 1990 by the Building Research Establishment (BRE) that covers Sowrby Bridge.
Our other services include:
BREEAM HEA05 Acoustic Performances can also be known as:
BREEAM HEA03 Thermal Comfort, BREEAM HEA04 Thermal Comfort, BREEAM, BREEAM HEA01 Visual Comfort, BREEAM Credit Report, BREEAM Assessment, BREEAM HEA01 Daylight Calculation,


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