BREEAM National Operations

BREEAM is used in more than 70 countries, with several in Europe having gone a stage further to
develop country-specific BREEAM schemes operated by National Scheme Operators (NSOs). There
are currently NSOs affiliated to BREEAM in:

Netherlands – the Dutch Green Building Council operates BREEAM NL

Spain – the Instituto Tecnológico de Galicia operates BREEAM ES www.breeam.es

Norway – the Norwegian Green Building Council operates BREEAM NOR

Sweden – the Swedish Green Building Council operates BREEAM SE

Germany – the German Institute for Sustainable Real Estate (DIFNI) is operating BREEAM DE.

Schemes developed by NSOs can take any format as long as they comply with a set of overarching
requirements laid down in the Code for a Sustainable Built Environment. They can be produced
from scratch by adapting current BREEAM schemes to the local context, or by developing existing
local schemes.

BREEAM Refurbishment provides a design and assessment method for sustainable housing
refurbishment projects, helping to cost effectively improve the sustainability and environmental
performance of existing dwellings in a robust way. A scheme for non-housing refurbishment projects
is being developed and is targeted for launch in early 2014. The launch date will be announced once
the piloting and independent peer review processes has been completed.

BREEAM Communities focusses on the masterplanning of whole communities.[3][4] It is aimed at

helping construction industry professionals to design places that people want to live and work in, are
good for the environment and are economically successful.

BREEAM includes several sustainability categories for the assessment, generally

Management
Energy

Health & wellbeing

Transport

Water

Materials

Waste

Land use and ecology

Pollution

Home Quality Mark was launched in 2015 as part of the BREEAM family of schemes. It rates new
homes on their overall quality and sustainability, then provides further indicators on the homes
impact upon the occupants 'Running costs', 'Health and wellbeing' and 'Environmental footprint'.