What is BREEAM?​

The world’s leading science-based suite of validation and certification systems for sustainable built environment.​

All asset types​

BREEAM provides consistent and comparable sustainability assessment and verification across all asset types. Since 1990, its third-party certified standards have helped improve asset performance at every stage, from design through construction, to use and refurbishment. ​

Millions of buildings across the world are registered to work towards BREEAM’s holistic approach to achieve ESG, health and net zero goals.

Shopping mall

Klepierre, Hoog Catharijne in Utrecht/Alfred Cromback​

Hospital

Universitario Infanta Sofia​

Residential apartments

Falconer Chester Half Architects and Federated Hermes​

Commercial offices

Vacse Hovrattstorget AB/Flundran 2​

Education & commercial

Otto Sverdrups plaas 4 AS/Entra ASA​

Luxury apartments

Capco/Floral Court​

BREEAM around the world

International partners

BREEAM AT​

BREEAM CH​

BREEAM DE​

BREEAM ES​

BREEAM NL​

BREEAM NOR​

BREEAM SE​

BREEAM UK​

BREEAM USA​

Trusted by world leaders in built environment sustainability

“In terms of what is ‘green’ or ‘sustainable’, certification such as BREEAM plays a central role in ensuring that funded real estate assets under these propositions meet the right standards.”

David Willock, Managing director and head of ESG finance, corporate and institutional coverage at Lloyds Bank.

Holistic approach to sustainability

BREEAM addresses sustainability performance across nine categories with broad focus on:

Carbon emissions

BREEAM has measured carbon emissions as part of the standard from the beginning. BREEAM focuses on building efficiency and operational carbon, the only standard to measure the carbon impacts of both.

Human health

BREEAM integrates human health with environmental performance, providing the foundational approach to health and wellbeing that underpins occupant activities to promote health and wellness.

Resilience

The integration of resilience for tomorrow alongside environmental performance from today seeks to protect asset value for the future.

BREEAM in numbers​

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Countries​

Building professionals trained​

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BREEAM certificates​*

Excellent or outstanding rated projects​

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of European market trusts and uses BREEAM​

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Buildings registered to start their sustainability journey​

*Count is based on number of buildings covered under the assessment. It includes BREEAM & CSH.

"CBRE Investment Management use BREEAM as a method to measure success. It provides consistency and comparability in our environmental assessments We implement it across funds and portfolios in many locations and utilise the assessment outcomes to continuously drive improvement."​

Robbie Epsom, EMEA Head of ESG, CBREIM

CBRE Investment Management is a leading global real assets investment management firm with $141.9 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2021, operating in more than 30 offices and 20 countries around the world.​

  • CBREIM use the outcomes from the certifications to continuously drive improvement​
  • CBREIM engage with BREEAM, so we can feed into the future of the assessment schemes​
  • BREEAM is a solid performance indicator for CBREIM’s Sustainability vision, for both direct and indirect portfolios ​
  • CBREIM Sustainability Vision focusses on three main themes - Climate, People and Influence - BREEAM is a measure of achieving this at the asset level​
  • CBREIM will use BREEAM to support their goals in climate resilience and driving the transition to net zero carbon​

Value of BREEAM​

Measurable route to sustainable & valuable built environment​

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Average CO2 ​savings ​

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Sales prices increase with BREEAM - World Green Building Council ​

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Would recommend BREEAM​

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Emissions reduction expected​

Excellent

Priceless​

Staff costs account for 90% of business’ operating costs (hence we have Health & Wellbeing)​

2-5 years

Operational costs savings from 2% higher capital costs can be paid back within 2-5 years​

%

Of our clients would use BREEAM again​

Without BREEAM…​

Clients are vulnerable to higher reputational risk​

Projects lack of reliable data​

Inability to demonstrate compliance with planning conditions, government targets, ESG frameworks etc.​

Unable to demonstrate sustainability goals​

Inability to measure success or identify opportunities​

Risk making ​uninformed decisions​

Unable to benchmark performance​

Lower sales and rental prices​

Higher operating costs​

Require several frameworks to achieve desired outcomes​

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