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Achieve your net zero goals with BREEAM certification

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Improve your building's asset performance and achieve your sustainability goals with BREEAM - the world's leading certification system.

BREEAM supports solutions

BREEAM supports solutions to reduce net zero carbon, improve whole life performance, manage health and social impacts, boost circularity, resilience and biodiversity, and support disclosures and reporting.

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How BREEAM works

BREEAM is used to specify and measure the sustainability performance of buildings. Using this framework helps projects to meet their sustainability goals and achieve optimal performance over time.

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Why BREEAM?

BREEAM provides a credible scientific framework, informed by BRE’s expertise in science and research. It provides meaningful insights to help you make smart decisions about the future of your assets.

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BREEAM solutions

The BREEAM framework provides solutions to many of the key challenges facing the built environment, from working towards net zero carbon to addressing health and social impacts.

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Net zero carbon

BREEAM supports the creation of resilient buildings that support net zero carbon. The built environment can play a pivotal role in achieving net zero globally by 2050. BREEAM supports decarbonisation in the built environment and real estate.

Whole life performance

BREEAM can help to take into account the full impact that a building can have on the environment, from design to the end of its life. BREEAM provides the tools and frameworks to empower everyone involved, from investors to operators, to make informed decisions for the lifespan of their asset, and measure and report on these outcomes.

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Health and social impacts

The built environment can contribute to the health, wellbeing, and resilience of people and communities. We are advocates and enablers of healthy places and spaces. BREEAM’s solutions help to ensure buildings have adequate ventilation, thermal and visual comfort, and air quality.

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Circularity and resilience

BREEAM supports the application of circularity principles to the built environment, with particular focus on resource use and supply chains. We support a future where organisations fully embrace circularity principles, reducing reliance on finite resources.

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Biodiversity and nature

BREEAM supports biodiversity by developing strategies that restore and protect nature and wildlife. It aligns with initiatives such as the sustainable development goals. It also supports nature to improve the health and wellbeing of building users.

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Disclosures and reporting

BREEAM helps to provide stakeholders with the information they need to develop and operate better performing assets. With robust science, third-party assurance and flexible frameworks for all stages of the built environment lifecycle, BREEAM offers valuable insights to inform decision making and achieve their sustainability and ESG goals.

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CBREIM have an ambitious sustainability vision, focused around climate, people and influence. BREEAM is a good measure of overall performance that we can use as a key marker against this vision.

– Robbie Epsom, EMEA Head of ESG, CBRE Investment Management(SFL)

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