BREEAM
Criteria
There are system variants for a variety of building categories including office buildings, sales outlets, industrial buildings, schools, health care facilities, courthouses, prisons, hotels, as well as a separate tool for housing estates. In Great Britain a slightly adapted form of the residential building catalogue was elevated to the mandatory building code (Code for Sustainable Homes - CSH).
BREEAM evaluation schemes are continuously adapted to national and regional specificities and modified in close coordination with a local project team in order to reflect to country-specific conditions. In addition, there is a separate, already standardised procedure for special projects which is used to adapt the defined criteria to special uses or a certain mixture to different building usage zones (the BREEAM Bespoke Process).
Criteria are evaluated in the following ten categories:
- Management
- Health and Wellbeing
- Energy
- Transport
- Water
- Materials
- Waste
- Land Use and Ecology
- Pollution
- Innovation
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What are the ratings?