BREEAM, or ‘Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Methodology’, is the world’s foremost environmental assessment method and rating system for buildings. There are 250,000 buildings with certified BREEAM assessment ratings and over a million registered for assessment since it was first launched in 1990. It sets the standard for best practice sustainable building design.

BREEAM has become one of the most comprehensive and widely-recognised measures of a building’s environmental performance. It encourages designers, clients and others to think about low-carbon and low-impact design. This minimises the energy demands created by a building before considering energy efficiency and low-carbon technologies.

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 include aspects related to energy and water use, the internal environment (health and well-being), pollution, transport, materials, waste, ecology, and management processes.

We are committed to saving energy to help mitigate climate change by designing and/or installing intelligent, flexible building management systems, complete with the latest energy monitoring and control equipment available on the market (all in compliance with building regulations).

These systems offer the end user flexible control of building services systems and can massively reduce energy bills. We strive to provide cost-effective ways of implementing an energy monitoring package which allows remote analysis of energy use to identify areas of overspending or saving.

These are now primary issues and in many instances form planning consent qualification.

Noise and sound breakout is a complex subject and may require consultancy back-up to establish structural detail. We have carried many studies and projects with sensitivity in this area and may be able to assist if you have unanswered questions.

Odour and smoke, particularly from kitchens, is a principal concern in many city centre areas. Inevitably the treatment of such problems can prove costly, and ecology systems do require detailed design work.