The future of BREEAM
Posted on August 9th, 2010 by sustainability
The UK-GBC’s report on the future of BREEAM is out today, bringing together members’ comments from last month’s consultation as reported by Footprint here.
Most significantly, the report calls for greater transparency of data and the need to integrate operational performance into certification. This hopes to reduce the discrepancies between initial energy calculations and final energy use during occupation.
The report also recommended that BREEAM considers:
- Reviewing minimum standards for performance
- Implementing greater transparency in relation to material lifecycles in the Green Guide
- Clarifying building performance on BREEAM certificates
- Allowing the data from BREEAM results to be made publicly available
- Ensuring transparency relating to future strategies to help industry prepare for changes
- Improving customer service and online facilities
- Developing a scheme suitable for retrofit projects
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Hattie, thanks for posting the info from the UK GBC on your Blog. We are currently reviewing the comments from this event along with others we have received. All these comments for me and the BREEAM team are invaluable to ensure we respond and adapt BREEAM to the market priorities. The next stage in keeping all our various stakeholders up to date is to write an open letter (hope you will include on your Blog), setting down the changes we are making in the short term (current update) as well as our longer term direction.
Martin Townsend (Director of BREEAM)