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North Yorkshire - BREEAM HEA01 Visual Comfort - 01904 213 024
The office that covers this area is: Wakefield
The towns & cities that are covered within this county are:
Barlby, Bedale, Easingwold, Filey, Grassinton, Graet Ayton, Harrogate, Heslington, Hawes, Hemsley, Ingleton, Kellington, Knaresborough, Leyburn, Loftus, Malton, Marske by the Sea, Masham, Middleham, Middlesbrough, Northallerton, Pateley Bridge, Pickering, Redcar, Richmond, Ripon, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Scarborough, Selby, Settle, Sherburn-in-Elmet, Skipton, Staithes, Stokesley, Tadcaster, Thirsk, Whitby, Yarm, York,
Phone Number: 01904 213 024 Email: north-yorkshire@e2consultants.co.uk
BREEAM is sometimes referred to as BREEAM Assessments, BREEAM Reports, BREEAM Assessment Ratings, BREEAM Assessors, BREEAM Rating.
What Are The Benefits of BREEAM?
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.
It's the hope that the BREEAM assessment will help building owners and designers improve their carbon footprint across North Yorkshire 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.
What Is A BREEAM Rating?
The BREEAM ratings for a new, non-domestic building in North Yorkshire 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%)
The maximum score a building can achieve in North Yorkshire 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.
How To Achieve BREEAM Excellence
The scoring for a BREEAM assessment in North Yorkshire 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 North Yorkshire, BREEAM stands for Building Research Establishment's Enviromental Assement Method.
How Is BREEAM Assessed?
Covering a range of environmental issues in North Yorkshire, 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.
Book Your BREEAM Assessment
For further information or to book your BREEAM assessment in North Yorkshire, call one of your BREEAM assessors on 01904 213 024 or email breeam@e2consultants.co.uk.
Our other services include:
BREEAM HEA01 Visual Comfort can also be known as:
BREEAM HEA03 Thermal Comfort, BREEAM HEA05 Acoustic Performances, BREEAM, BREEAM HEA01 Daylight Calculation, BREEAM Credit Report, BREEAM Assessment, BREEAM HEA04 Thermal Comfort,


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