Gloucestershire - BREEAM HEA01 Visual Comfort - 029 2193 0147

The office that covers this area is: Cardiff

The towns & cities that are covered within this county are:
Bishop's Cleeve, Blakeney, Bourton on the Water, Bream, Cheltenham, Chipping Campden, Chipping Sodbury, Churchdown, Cinderford, Cirencester, Coldeford, Dursley, Fairford, Gloucester, Lechlade, Lydney, Moreton in Marsh, Nailsworth, Newent, Northleach, Painswick, Patchway, Stanton, Stow-on-the-Wold, Stroud, Tetbury, Tewkesbury, Winchcombe, Winterbourne, Wotton, Wotton under Edge,

Phone Number: 029 2193 0147 Email: gloucestershire@e2consultants.co.uk

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

How To Achieve BREEAM Excellence

The scoring for a BREEAM assessment in Gloucestershire is as follows:

• Outstanding: 85%+
• Excellent: 70%+
• Very Good: 55%+
• Good: 45%+
• Pass: 30%+
• Unclassified: <30%

What Does BREEAM Stand For?

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

How Is BREEAM Assessed?

Covering a range of environmental issues in Gloucestershire, 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 Is A BREEAM Rating?

The maximum score a building can achieve in Gloucestershire 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.

The BREEAM ratings for a new, non-domestic building in Gloucestershire 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%)

What Are The Benefits of BREEAM?

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.

It's the hope that the BREEAM assessment will help building owners and designers improve their carbon footprint across Gloucestershire and make better use of their resources. A BREEAM certification is a way of validating how good a building is in terms of the environmental impact through a globally recognised standard.

Book Your BREEAM Assessment

Call one of your BREEAM assessors in Gloucestershire on 029 2193 0147 or email breeam@e2consultants.co.uk for further information or to book your BREEAM assessment.