GENEX BREEAM Assessment Services

GENEX have an experienced and enthusiastic team of fully qualified and licensed BREEAM assessors (Including BREEAM Accredited Professionals) covering the whole range of the BREEAM schemes. We can undertake assessments on developments throughout the UK and internationally, with no development too big or too small.

Our assessors can clearly guide you through the process of BREEAM assessments and complete the necessary works to make the process as easy as possible for. These works include:

•           Identifying the applicable scheme for your development

•           Officially registering the assessment with BRE

•           Explaining the process of BREEAMs to the whole  Design Team

•           Undertaking Pre-Assessment meetings and reports

•           Providing advice to maximise the BREEAM rating

•           Liaison with BRE on any queries

•           Liaison with individual members of the design team

•           Collation of required information from individual parties

•           Assessing the design, specification and final installation

•           Undertaking the formal assessment, calculating a score and rating

•           Generating the assessment report to enable BRE certification

GENEX can also provide consultancy and advice services to improve and maximise the BREEAM rating for your development, using our BREEAM Accredited Professionals.

We also offer additional BREEAM services and works that are required to complete an assessment, including EPCs, ecologist surveys, and low carbon technology feasibility studies.

GENEX also have registered LEED Accredited Professionals (LEED AP) who can provide in-depth consultancy advice and guidance for completing LEED Assessments (the USA’s rating system for sustainability), if required instead, or as well as BREEAM assessment.

What are BREEAM Assessments?

BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method) assessments score, award and highlight innovative developments that are sustainably designed and constructed in a manner that is above and beyond building regulations requirements. BREEAM Assessments are seen both in the UK and internationally as the foremost indicator for sustainable building design.

Buildings that are BREEAM certified prove that design teams have considered the wide array of environmental and social impacts of the development, and have specified and installed measures to improve these impacts through design, to the construction and future occupancy.

BREEAM is a credit scoring assessment used to generate a specific sustainability performance rating for the building ranging from a “Pass” to an “Outstanding” rating. The areas assessed by the BREEAM Assessments are:

•  Management

Overall policy and procedural issues

• Health and Wellbeing

Internal environmental issues

• Energy

Operational energy and CO2 issues

• Transport

Transport related CO2 and location issues

• Water

Consumption and leakage related issues

• Materials

Environmental implications and material selections

• Land Use

Greenfield & Brownfield site issues

• Waste

Waste Management issues through construction and final use

• Site Ecology

Ecological evaluation and enhancement of the site

• Pollution

Air and Water pollution issues