Cumbria - BREEAM Credit Report - 0191 633 0103

The office that covers this area is: Newcastle

The towns & cities that are covered within this county are:
Alston, Ambleside, Appleby in Westmorland, Arnside, Barrow in Furness, Bowness-on-Windermere, Brampton, Brough, Carlisle, Cleator Moor, Cockermouth, Coniston, Dalton in Furness, Egremont, Grange over Sands, Kendal, Keswick, Kirkby Lonsdale, Kirkby Stephen, Kirkoswald, Maryport, Millom, Milnthorpe, Penrith, Ravenglass, Seascale, Seaton, Sedbergh, Silloth, Staveley, Ulverston, Whitehaven, Wigton, Windermere, Workington,

Phone Number: 0191 633 0103 Email: cumbria@e2consultants.co.uk

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

What Does BREEAM Stand For?

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

Book Your BREEAM Assessment

For further information or to book your BREEAM assessment in Cumbria, call one of your BREEAM assessors on 0191 633 0103 or email breeam@e2consultants.co.uk.

How Is BREEAM Assessed?

BREEAM's aim is to educate building designers, owners and occupiers throughout Cumbria about the impact their building has on the local area. To do this, BREEAM gives a rating of Outstanding, Excellent, Very Good, Good or a Pass based on transport, waste, energy, health, water, pollution, materials, management and ecology.

How To Achieve BREEAM Excellence

To achieve an Excellent score in Cumbria you'll need to score 70% or above where an Outstanding rating is for 85% and up. To just pass the assessment the building will need to score 30% or above with anything lower marked as Unclassified.

What Is A BREEAM Rating?

The BREEAM ratings for a new, non-domestic building in Cumbria 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 Cumbria from a BREEAM assessment. However, in 2008, a new 'Outstanding' category was added - although the percentages required for each level remained the same.

What Are The Benefits of BREEAM?

A BREEAM certification is a way of validating how good a building in Cumbria 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.

It's not unheard of that making a building more environmentally friendly will increase the cost of construction - but BREEAM aims to show that by building this way you will save on operational costs in the future that in turn limit investor costs and makes the property more attractive when reselling.