BREEAMS SYSTEM | BUILDING LEVEL

Building Research Establishment’s Environmental Assesment Method

GROUP 9 | Nikita Mahajan | Nazrin Ahmedzada |Keerthana Venugopalan

CONTENT
1. Introduction
1.1 Aims and Objectives
1.2 Rating
1.3 10 Categories
1.4 Schemes

2. Stating the parameters

3. Case Study

4. Translation
 1. Introduction
BREEAM (Building Research Establishment’s EnvironmentalAssessment Method) is a sustainability rating
assessing and certifying scheme for the built environment contributing in design, construction and use.
‘‘BREEAM is an international standard that is locally adapted, operated and applied through a network of
international operators, assessors and industry professionals’’.

1.2 Aims and Objectives

Easure and reduce - Environmental impacts by creating higher value, lower risk assets.
Enable building recognition as per the environmental benifits
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Environmental and credible label for buildings
Stimulate sustainable building demands
Envrionmental Market recognition to low environmental impact buildings
Evnironmental practice
WELLBEING
Innovative solutions
Social Economical Awareness of stakeholders
Progress towards corporate environments
 1.1 Rating
The BREEAM rating benchmarks enable a client and all other stakeholders to compare the performance of a
building with other BREEAM rated buildings of the same type, and the typical sustainability performance of a
stock of buildings.

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Outstanding: Less than the top 1% of buildings (innovator)

Excellent: Top 10% of buildings (best practice)
Very Good: Top 25% of buildings (advanced good practice)
Good: Top 50% of buildings (intermediate good practice)
Pass: Top 75% of buildings (standard good practice)

1.2 Categories|Environmental impact

groups
BREEAM rewards performance above regulation which delivers environmental, comfort or health benefits.
BREEAM awards points or ‘Credits’ and groups the environmental impacts as follows:
•Energy: operational energy and carbondioxide(CO2)
•Management: management policy, commissioning, site management and procurement
•Health wand Wellbeing:indoor and external issues(noise,light,air,qualityetc)
•Transport: Transport-related CO2 and location related factors
•Water consumption and efficiency
•Materials:embodied impacts of building materials, including life cycle impacts like embodied carbondioxide
•Waste: construction resource efficiency and operational wastemanagement and minimisation
•Pollution:external air and water pollution

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 1.1 Schemes | Scope
1. The New Construction
The New Construction standards can be used to assess the design, construction, intended use and fu-
ture-proofing of new building developments, including the local, natural or manmade environment surround-
ing the building. The standards can be used to assess most types of new buildings, including new homes and
new-build extensions to existing buildings. Each uses a common framework that is adaptable, depending upon
the building’s type and location.

2. The In USe
BREEAM In-Use is an environmental assessment method that enables property investors, owners, managers
and occupiers to determine and drive sustainable improvements in the operational performance of exisiting
buildings. It has three parts–
1 (building Asset)
2 (Building Management)are relevant to all non-domestic, commercial, industrial, retail and institutional build-
ings.
3 (Occupier management)of the BREEAM In-Use certification scheme is currently restricted to offices.

3. Refurbishment
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 robustway.

4. Communities
BREEAMCommunitiesfocusesonthemasterplanningofwholecommunities.

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5. Infrastructure
2.6 Management
This category encourages sustainable water uses in building operations and its site.
Identifying means of reducing potable water consumption (internal and external) over the lifetime of the
building and minimising losses through leakage.

Issues
Reducing the demand for potable water through the provision of :
1. Efficient sanitary fittings
2. Rainwater collection
3. Water recycling systems.

Specification of water meters on the mains water supply to encourage water consumption management moni-
toring to reduce the impacts of inefficiencies and leakage.

Recognition of leak detection systems capable of detecting a major water leak on the mains water supply
Flow control devices that regulate the supply of water to each WC area or facility to reduce water wastage
Easily accessible leak isolation valves, to allow leaks to be stopped and then fixed quickly and with minimum
water wastage.

Identify a building’s water demand from uses other than domestic-scale drinking and sanitary components
and mitigate or reduce their consumption.
2.5 Health and Wellbeing
2.2 wealthbeing
This category encourages sustainable land use, habitat protection, creation, and improvement of long term
biodiversity for the building’s site and surrounding land.
Issues in this section relate to the reuse of brownfield sites or those of low ecological value, mitigation and
enhancement of ecology and long term biodiversity management.

Issues
Site Selection :
Encourage the use of previously occupied or contaminated land and avoid land which has not been previously
disturbed.

Ecological value of site and protection of ecological features:

To encourage development on land that already has limited value to wildlife and to protect existing ecological
features from substantial damage during site preparation and completion of construction works.

To encourage actions taken to enhance the ecological value of the site as a result of development.

To minimise the long term impact of the development on the site and the surrounding area’s biodiversity.

Encouraging the long term maintenance and management of ecology on site to ensure both newand existing
ecological features continue to thrive.
2.4 Energy
This category encourages sustainable water uses in building operations and its site.
Identifying means of reducing potable water consumption (internal and external) over the lifetime of the
building and minimising losses through leakage.

Issues
Reducing the demand for potable water through the provision of :
1. Efficient sanitary fittings
2. Rainwater collection
3. Water recycling systems.

Specification of water meters on the mains water supply to encourage water consumption management moni-
toring to reduce the impacts of inefficiencies and leakage.

Recognition of leak detection systems capable of detecting a major water leak on the mains water supply
Flow control devices that regulate the supply of water to each WC area or facility to reduce water wastage
Easily accessible leak isolation valves, to allow leaks to be stopped and then fixed quickly and with minimum
water wastage.

Identify a building’s water demand from uses other than domestic-scale drinking and sanitary components
and mitigate or reduce their consumption.
2.4 Transport
This category encourages better access to sustainable means of transport for building users.
Accessibility of public transport and other alternative transport solutions (cyclist facilities, provision of ameni-
ties local to a building) that support reductions in car journeys and, therefore, congestion and CO2 emissions
over the life of the building.

Issues
Recognition of developments in close proximity to good public transport networks, thereby helping to reduce-
transport-related pollution and congestions.

Accessibility to local amenities which are likely to be frequently required and used by building occupants.

Provision of facilities to encourage travel using low carbon modes of transport and to minimise individual jour-
neys.

Recognition of developments that limit car parking capacity.

To promote sustainable reductions in transport burdens by undertaking a site specific travel assessment or
statement and developing a travel plan based on the needs of the particular site.

To provide necessary space and services to be able to work from home and reduce the need to commute to
work.
 2.5 Water
This category encourages sustainable water uses in building operations and its site.
Identifying means of reducing potable water consumption (internal and external) over the lifetime of the
building and minimising losses through leakage.

Issues
Reducing the demand for potable water through the provision of :
1. Efficient sanitary fittings
2. Rainwater collection
3. Water recycling systems.

Specification of water meters on the mains water supply to encourage water consumption management moni-
toring to reduce the impacts of inefficiencies and leakage.

Recognition of leak detection systems capable of detecting a major water leak on the mains water supply
Flow control devices that regulate the supply of water to each WC area or facility to reduce water wastage
Easily accessible leak isolation valves, to allow leaks to be stopped and then fixed quickly and with minimum
water wastage.

Identify a building’s water demand from uses other than domestic-scale drinking and sanitary components
and mitigate or reduce their consumption.

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2.6 Ecology and Landuse
This category encourages sustainable land use, habitat protection, creation, and improvement of long term
biodiversity for the building’s site and surrounding land.
Issues in this section relate to the reuse of brownfield sites or those of low ecological value, mitigation and
enhancement of ecology and long term biodiversity management.

Issues
Site Selection :
Encourage the use of previously occupied or contaminated land and avoid land which has not been previously
disturbed.

Ecological value of site and protection of ecological features:

To encourage development on land that already has limited value to wildlife and to protect existing ecological
features from substantial damage during site preparation and completion of construction works.

To encourage actions taken to enhance the ecological value of the site as a result of development.

To minimise the long term impact of the development on the site and the surrounding area’s biodiversity.

Encouraging the long term maintenance and management of ecology on site to ensure both newand existing
ecological features continue to thrive.
3 Case Study

Bombay Sapphire Distillery Process Buildings, Whitchurch

Project Details
Scheme & Version: Industrial 2008
Stage: Interim
Location: Whitchurch, UK
Score & Rating: 86.81% Outstanding
Certificate Number: BREEAM-0039-7141

The design of a low carbon, BREEAM assessed, flagship distillery underpinned the design brief, which
was supported by the client and design team from the outset.
The project was commissioned by Heatherwick Studio to design the company’s first open-to-the-
public in-house production facility, distillery.
The structure was once a water-powered paper mill, and the site also housed more than forty ancient
structures that will also be restored as part of the master plan. The River Test, which was previously
covered but is now the fundamental organizing device that helps one make sense of this site and
facilities, is at the core of the master plan development. The river has been transformed, opened, and
planted in a path that leads visitors to the newly defined courtyard.

The master design also called for the construction of two new glasshouses to house ten exotic plant
specimens that would be used in the distilling process. These glasshouses are positioned in the
northern still house with the waters of the expanded river, one in a humid tropical environment and
the other in a dry temperate Mediterranean climate. This link enables waste heat from the distillation
process to be repurposed to keep the plants at a constant temperature.

The river became the central organizing device to make sense of the complex site and this
accumulation of facilities. The river has been widened and its banks opened out and planted in order to
transform it into a route that draws visitors through the site to a newly defined courtyard at its center,
surrounded by historic buildings.
The design of a low carbon,
BREEAM assessed, flagship distillery
underpinned the design brief, which
was supported by the client and design
team from the outset.
>90%
Central to the 2500m2 distillery are
three still houses, which accommodate
traditional copper stills that use
renewable energy from a biomass
boiler, photovoltaic array and hydro-
electric turbine.
>90%
Arguably the most impressive element
has been the level of consultation and
social responsibility adopted by the
design and construction teams.
This included the recycling and reuse
of existing building materials from
demolished buildings across the
site, and an ingenious idea to reuse
spent botanicals from the distillation
process as fuel for the biomass boiler
– supplying heat and hot water to the
whole site.
>90%
Cutting edge technologies was
encouraged by the client. This has
seen a multi-functional renewable
energy strategy implemented –
including a 6kW hydro-electric
turbine located in the River Test.
Additional 5%
There was a strong desire to
reduce any impact on the existing
environment, and ‘cradle to grave’
considerations formed a major part
of the design philosophy.

Transport
The transportation category tests the ease
of access for users to facilities - such as post
office, ATM, using public transportation. In
addition, the category contains information
for people using bicycles and electric
vehicles. People staying at Chiaravalle can
reach the center easily as they have the
bus-stop with the bus 77, coming each 10
minutes, so it adds points to this category.
To arise percentage to maximum, we should
consider comfortable parking for bikes and
scooters.
4 Translating on site . . .
Materials
It is about which materials are used and
how they can affect the environment. It
also includes the points for insulation,
to recognise and encourage the use
of construction materials with a low
environmental impact over the full life
cycle of the building. We should make use
of an Embodied CO2 or Embodied Energy
or Carbon Footprinting tool to evaluate a
range of material options for the building,
and the design team can demonstrate how
this evaluation has positively influenced the
design.
Management
In the management, the functionality of the
building and the amount of construction
costs are assessed. It also includes heating
system management, ventilation - where
the building is largely naturally ventilated,
using simple cross-flow ventilation relying
solely on openable windows and/or trickle
vents (except in areas where mechanical
ventilation is legally required), the
appointment of a specialist commissioning
agent is not required to award this credit.
Health and
Wellbeing
To give building users sufficient access to
daylight. Assessment criterias are: 1. The
provision of daylight has been designed
in compliance with national best practice
daylighting guides. 2. For all developments,
at least 80% of the net lettable office floor
area is adequately daylit.