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Durham - BREEAM HEA01 Daylight Calculation - 0191 633 0103
The office that covers this area is: Newcastle
The towns & cities that are covered within this county are:
Barnard Castle, Billingham, Bishop Auckland, Brandon, Chester le Street, Consett, Crook, Darlington, Durham, Eaglescliffe, Easington, Ferry Hill, Hartlepool, Lanchester, Middleton in Teeside, Murton, Newton Aycliffe, Peterlee, Seaham, Sedgefield, Shildon, Spennymoor, Stanley, Stockton on Tees, West Auckland, Willington, Wingate,
Phone Number: 0191 633 0103 Email: durham@e2consultants.co.uk
BREEAM is sometimes referred to as BREEAM Rating, BREEAM Assessors, BREEAM Reports, BREEAM Assessments, BREEAM Assessment Ratings.
What Is A BREEAM Rating?
The BREEAM ratings for a new, non-domestic building in Durham 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 Durham from a BREEAM assessment. However, in 2008, a new 'Outstanding' category was added - although the percentages required for each level remained the same.
What Does BREEAM Stand For?
First published by the Building Reseearch Establishment (BRE) in 1990 covering buildings across Durham, BREEAM stands for Building Research Establishment's Enviromental Assement Method.
How Is BREEAM Assessed?
Covering a range of environmental issues in Durham, 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.
How To Achieve BREEAM Excellence
The scoring for a BREEAM assessment in Durham is as follows:
- Outstanding: 85%+
- Excellent: 70%+
- Very Good: 55%+
- Good: 45%+
- Pass: 30%+
- Unclassified: <30%
What Are The Benefits of BREEAM?
A BREEAM certification is a way of validating how good a building in Durham 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
Call one of your BREEAM assessors in Durham on 0191 633 0103 or email breeam@e2consultants.co.uk for further information or to book your BREEAM assessment.
Our other services include:
BREEAM HEA01 Daylight Calculation can also be known as:
BREEAM HEA03 Thermal Comfort, BREEAM HEA05 Acoustic Performances, BREEAM Assessment, BREEAM HEA04 Thermal Comfort, BREEAM, BREEAM Credit Report, BREEAM HEA01 Visual Comfort,


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