BREEAM – Building Sustainability Rating System

BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method) sets the standard for best practice in sustainable building design, construction, and operation and has become one of the most comprehensive and widely recognised measures of a building’s environmental performance.

Green Building Certification

The increasing demand for sustainability, in relation to products and processes, is leading to rapid changes in policies, laws, and regulations around the world, to encourage more sustainable projects.

A number of rating systems, therefore, exist to assess the environmental impacts of buildings, constructions, infrastructure, urban-scale projects, and community projects.

BREEAM is a Green Building Certification that is designed to assist projects to be more sustainable by providing frameworks with a set of criteria that cover several aspects of a project’s environmental impact.

Our Team Can Help You Achieve Green Building Status for Your Building

About BREEAM

Many clients want to protect their building assets and do so by embarking on a formal sustainability or health and well-being rating system. This can attract higher rent yields, and market demand and ultimately add more value than non-related equivalents.

A BREEAM assessment uses recognised measures of performance, which are set against established benchmarks, to evaluate a building’s specification, design, construction, and use.

The measures used represent a broad range of categories and criteria from energy to ecology. They assess areas related to management processes, health and well-being, energy, transport, water, waste, land use, and ecology and pollution.

There are five possible ratings that can be achieved:

Pass
Good
Very Good
Excellent
Outstanding

If you would like to know more about BREEAM and whether it is the right rating system to assess how green your building project is please get in touch with one of the team today – we have a dedicated BREEAM Accredited Professional and a BREEAM Assessor in-house.

Our BREEAM Assessment Team Can Help Achieve Green Building Status for your Building

Sectoral expertise

Retail

At Lawler Sustainability, we are vastly experienced in maximising the energy efficiency of retail stores and have sustainability solutions to match the needs of all brands, both big and small.

Hotels and Leisure

Lawler Sustainability are recognised for Award Winning Expertise in the Hotels & Leisure sector and have worked with the leading organisations across Ireland and abroad, drastically improving the sustainability and energy efficiency levels.

Residential

Lawler Sustainability provides comprehensive energy services for residential developments.

Conservation

The upgrading of an old building or conservation can be difficult in terms of striking the right balance between original and modern. At Lawler Sustainability, we provide expert energy advice

Commercial

With most of our commercial sector work taking place in office environments, it is a major focus of Lawler Sustainability to reduce energy consumption and create more productive and healthier

Education

At Lawler Sustainability, we have an excellent track record in the education sector and intimate knowledge of how to optimise building performance and make our schools and colleges more sustainable.

Industry

At Lawler Sustainability, we have vast industry experience, helping organisations to improve profitability, reduce emissions and meet CSR climate goals.

Public Sector

Lawler Sustainability has an array of experience in working with government departments to deliver Public Sector Retrofit Pathfinder projects.

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Our Experience

St James Street Grade II Commercial Refurbishment

This commercial project at 78 St James Street involves the refurbishment of an existing listed Grade II building located in London.

Lawler Sustainability provided BREEAM advisory services to ensure that the M&E design is BREEAM compliant and that the project achieved a BREEAM rating of ‘Excellent’.

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St James Street

In addition to the Mechanical and Electrical design package, Lawler Sustainability is also providing BREEAM advisory services to ensure that the final mechanical and electrical services are BREEAM compliant.

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