How BREEAM works
Assessing your assets to BREEAM is easy. With over 30 years’ experience in sustainability assessment and third-party accreditation, you can be confident in the BREEAM sustainability journey.
Sustainability assessment across the entire built environment lifecycle
BREEAM provides consistent and comparable sustainability assessment and verification across all asset types and throughout the entire built environment lifecycle. It does this by providing reliable and verified data into net zero carbon, disclosures and reporting, biodiversity, circularity and resilience, and health and social impact, unlocking valuable insights into asset performance management for constructors, developers, owners, operators, and investors.
Top sectors (INC)
Share of different sectors and industries BREEAM covers:
Office
Industrial
Retail
Residential
Hotels and residential institutions short term stay
Bespoke
Residential institutions long-term stay
Education
BREEAM environmental categories
Management
Water
Energy
Pollution
Transport
Materials
Health & wellbeing
Waste
Resources
Innovation
BREEAM Ratings & Certificates
Each BREEAM rating broadly represents performance equivalent to:
Outstanding: Less than the top 1% of buildings (innovator)
Excellent: Top 10% of buildings (best practice)
Very Good: Top 25% of buildings (advanced good practice)
Good: Top 50% of buildings (intermediate good practice)
Pass: Top 75% of buildings (standard good practice)
Outstanding
Excellent
Very good
Very good
Pass
Unclassified
Complete a BREEAM assessment
The process is simple:
Step 1 : find a licensed assessor on GreenBookLive
Step 2: register your project
Step 3: Undertake the assessment
Step 4: quality assurance check of the assessment
Step 5: Certification
Certification is achieved through independent, third-party assessment conducted on-site by a licensed Assessor. The Assessor reviews evidence provided and conducts a site visit to verify performance. Find a licensed Assessor today by visiting greenbooklive.com.
BREEAM
professionals
Our Assessors and Advisory Professionals (APs) are built environment sustainability experts at the core of BREEAM’s community and success. Assessors verify asset performance and award the rating to the asset using the relevant BREEAM program and are licensed through their company.
Advisory Professionals (APs) are globally recognised through their individual credential as having the knowledge to provide strategic and technical BREEAM consultancy for their company or clients.
Read our Guide to BREEAM Professionals which outlines the roles, responsibilities and requirements of the Assessor and Advisory Professional (AP), and the important part each plays in the successful application of the BREEAM standards.
Through training and examinations, BREEAM professionals have demonstrated that they have the knowledge, skills and experience to support clients to deliver sustainable, healthy, resilient and productive assets using BREEAM.
1. Complete training course
2. Obtain qualification
3. Obtain product assessor license