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Noise and vibration
Published in Stephen Battersby, Clay's Handbook of Environmental Health, 2023
Andrew Colthurst, Steve Fisher
BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method)2 is a sustainability assessment that has been adopted in over 85 countries around the world and is applicable to both new build and refurbishment projects. A BREEAM assessment evaluates the procurement, design, construction and operation of a development against a range of targets based on performance benchmarks. These include assessment criteria both to ensure the building’s acoustic performance, including sound insulation, meets the appropriate standards for its purpose and to assess the likelihood of noise arising from fixed installations on the new development affecting nearby noise-sensitive buildings. The rating benchmark levels facilitate comparison of an individual building’s performance with other BREEAM-rated buildings and the typical sustainability performance of new UK non-domestic buildings. In the UK, most Government and public projects require a BREEAM assessment and some local authorities also require projects to undergo such an assessment. The BREEAM UK Technical Manual for New Construction Non-domestic Buildings, published in 2018, is available as an on-line document [29]. In addition to assessing commercial buildings the scope of the BREEAM International New Construction standard [30] includes residential developments.
Construction management in practice
Published in Fred Sherratt, Peter Farrell, Introduction to Construction Management, 2023
BREEAM stands for the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method for construction projects. It is a certification system for the environmental performance of buildings, established by a comprehensive review of the design, construction and operation of projects carried out by an approved BREEAM Assessor.
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Published in Barney L. Capehart, William J. Kennedy, Wayne C. Turner, Guide to Energy Management, 2020
Barney L. Capehart, William J. Kennedy, Wayne C. Turner
Perhaps the most publicized of these first appeared in the U.K., Canada, and the U.S. In the U.K., the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) was initiated in 1990. BREEAM™ certificates are awarded to developers based on an assessment of performance in regard to climate change, use of resources, impacts on human beings, ecological impact and construction management. Credits are assigned based on these and other factors. Overall ratings are assessed according to grades that range from pass to excellent (URS Europe 2005).
Factors affecting the design and development of responsive facades: a historical evolution
Published in Intelligent Buildings International, 2020
Negar Heidari Matin, Ali Eydgahi
The environmental movement triggered the passage of the Clean Air Act in 1963, and the Water Quality and Motor Vehicle Air Pollution Control Acts in 1965. Also, the OPEC oil export embargo affected by ongoing conflicts in Middle East caused energy crises in the 1970s and the early 1980s. In 1989, the environmental movement, energy crisis, and their subsequent consequences caused the American Institute of Architects (AIA) to form a committee on energy and environment to focus and promote passive and active technological approaches on the design of buildings’ components such as active responsive building envelopes (United States Environmental Protection Agency 2016). In 1990, the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) was launched by the Building Research Establishment in the United Kingdom as the first method to assess, rate and certify sustainability of buildings (Veliko and Thun 2013). In 1998, the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) developed a US rating system called Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for the design, construction, and operation of high-performance green buildings. The LEED certifications specify the standards for the design and construction of the high-performance building envelopes including responsive facade systems to address the indoor environmental quality (Loonen, Favoino, Hensen, & Overend, 2016).
Sustainability and wood constructions: a review of green building rating systems and life-cycle assessment methods from a South African and developing world perspective
Published in Advances in Building Energy Research, 2021
Philip L. Crafford, C. Brand Wessels, Melanie Blumentritt
Each BREEAM rating scheme has its own set of environmental section weightings as determined from a combination of consensus based weightings and ranking by a panel of experts. Environmental weightings are fundamental in any GB rating system as they provide a means of ranking the relative impact of environmental concerns. Different weighting options and impact categories are used across the different rating systems and tools – they are location and building type specific. According to its developers, the primary aim of any BREEAM rating scheme is to mitigate the negative impacts of buildings on the environment and to improve the social and economic impacts of the building over its lifetime (BREEAM, 2015).
Evaluating positivist theories of occupant satisfaction: a statistical analysis
Published in Building Research & Information, 2018
Aidan T. Parkinson, Richard Reid, Harriet McKerrow, Darren Wright
The TSB BPE programme measured the performance gap of over 100 diverse buildings across the UK. Archival information collected from this programme was shared by Innovate UK, giving detailed building performance and descriptive information of 47 non-domestic buildings. In most cases this archival information provided consistent reports of: Building use.Date occupied.Location.Building layout and morphology.Descriptions of mechanical and electrical building services.Air permeability, assessed by pressurizing buildings under assessment and measuring resulting losses.EPC rating calculated using the national calculation methodology (DCLG, 2008). EPCs provide an estimate of building energy performance for compliance with UK building regulations through a comparison with a notional building. They do not account for all energy loads and adopt idealized standardized assumptions of building use and operation.Display energy certificate (DEC) rating using the CIBSE TM47 methodology (CIBSE, 2009). DECs provide an estimate of building energy performance through a comparison with an adjusted benchmark. During the course of the BPE programme there was a statutory requirement for all public sector buildings to have DECs.Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) rating (BRE, 2014). BREEAM is a sustainability assessment method developed for the built environment. The assessment method awards buildings on the basis of the number of ‘credits’ achieved through a combination of standard initiatives stipulated by the scheme.Heat and electricity demand by end use using the CIBSE TM22 methodology (CIBSE, 2006). Through this process the energy consumption required to deliver a building’s end-use services can be compared with detailed benchmarks and an assessment made as to the energy efficiency of specific systems.