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:

Hotels and residential institutions short term stay​

Residential institutions long-term stay​

BREEAM suite of products​

Applied across lifecycle stages​

BREEAM environmental categories

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)​

An unclassified BREEAM rating represents performance that is non-compliant with BREEAM, in terms of failing to meet either the BREEAM minimum standards of performance for key environmental issues or the overall threshold score required to achieve at least a Pass rating.​

BREEAM In-Use ratings & certificates​

BREEAM professionals​ Assessor and AP

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.