1. BREEAM – Environmental Assessment and Swimming Facilities
Dr Ben Cartmell
ASA – Pools for the Future Seminar
Manchester Town Hall, 9th April 2008

2. The next 45 minutes
Why BREEAM?
The Environmental Assessment Consortium
Introduction to BREEAM and future changes
How to optimise a BREEAM score
The Bespoke BREEAM process
Associated considerations

3. Improve environmental performance of buildings
Why BREEAM?
Building
Research
Establishment
Environmental
Assessment
Method
Aims:
Improve environmental performance of buildings
Improve internal environment for occupants

4. BREEAM – An Introduction
Number of buildings
Regulatory minimum
Minimal
BREEAM
Aspirational

5. Code for Sustainable Homes (Buildings?)
Why BREEAM?
Planning Policy
PPS22 Renewable Energy
PPS1 Planning & Climate Change (consultation)
The London Plan / The Mayor’s Energy Strategy / ODA
EPBD
Building Regulations Part L
Energy Certification / Labelling
Code for Sustainable Homes (Buildings?)
The legislation that drives our market for both the consultancy and software development. The above legislation is actually quite hard to achieve and the construction industry really can’t continue with its traditional practices. We are helping the industry deliver the above but the standards / energy & environmental targets will tighten still further in the coming years (if the Government is to achieve its overall target of a 60% Carbon reduction by 2050 (from 2002 levels) so we see a growing market. You may want to move this slide to the start of the presentation???
Building a Greener Future: Towards Zero Carbon (Consultation)

6. The Environmental Assessment Consortium
Rickaby Thompson Associates
Ian Orme
Catherine Arotsky
Kathryn Greatorex
Rachael Wilson
Southfacing Services Ltd
Ben Cartmell
Lucy Harris
Rimante Okkels
Gale & Snowdon Architects
David Gale
Alan Pither
Bespoke BREEAM
BREEAM International
BREEAM Offices
BREEAM Schools
BREEAM Retail
BREEAM Further Education
BREEAM Industrial
BREEAM Prisons
Code for Sustainable Homes
EcoHomes
LEED
BRE Training
Examples of our high profile BREEAM assessment work (The Shard, The London Aquatic Centre (Olympic Swimming stadium) and Corby Cube). We also do BREEAM for Offices, Schools and housing (under the Code for Sustainable Homes scheme).

7. The EAC BREEAM Operation
Over 220 assessments (complete or in progress)
Over 100 live projects
Workload growing rapidly
International projects underway
Assessment team expanding

8. Bespoke BREEAM example projects
Examples of our high profile BREEAM assessment work (The Shard, The London Aquatic Centre (Olympic Swimming stadium) and Corby Cube). We also do BREEAM for Offices, Schools and housing (under the Code for Sustainable Homes scheme).

9. BREEAM International Client: Dubai Maritime City / BRE
Development: Office, Retail, Industrial & Residential.
Bespoke BREEAM assessment on five towers. Assistance to developer and BRE in developing a BREEAM standard for Dubai.
Our first BREEAM international project. Five towers in Dubai (see darker buildings at the bottom of the peninsula). This is the first ever assessment in the middle east and will be rolled out to 30 towers on this site and then other sites in Dubai and the middle east.

10. BREEAM Overview
Environmental Assessment Method
Certification scheme
Voluntary
Independent & credible
Holistic
Customer focussed
Credits based

11. BREEAM Scoring Management Health and Wellbeing Energy Transport Water
Materials
Land Use
Ecology
Pollution
Assessment Credits
Environmental Weightings
Single Score
Issue Category Scores
BREEAM
Score
PASS
GOOD
VERY GOOD
EXCELLENT

12. Environmental Weightings
BREEAM Scoring
Management
Health & W’being
Energy
Transport
Water
Materials
Land Use
Ecology
Pollution
15 (0.75%)
15 (0.83%)
25 (1.0%)
Environmental Weightings
05 (0.71%)
10 (0.58%)
15 (1.25%)
15 (1.07%)

13. BREEAM Ratings
Pass 25% – 40%
Good 40% - 55%
Very Good 55% - 70%
Excellent 70%+
Outstanding 80%+ (BREEAM 2008)

14. BREEAM Update
BREEAM 2008
Fundamental changes expected
Minimum standards as per CSH
Green Guide to Specification (2008)
Information from May 2008
Implementation from August 2008

15. BREEAM Schemes Scheme D&P PCR M&O Fit Out Offices  Schools Retail
Industrial
EcoHomes
Bespoke

16. BREEAM in the design process
Design Consultancy:
Pre-assessment works
Formal BREEAM assessment
Formal Assessment review
Final Certification by BRE
Post Construction Review
Outline Design (A-C)
Detailed Design (D)
Late design (D-E)
Post Construction (H)

17. BREEAM in the design process
Specific credit consideration

18. Optimise Management Credits
Commissioning
Whole Life Costing
Building Users Guide
Construction Site Impacts
Considerate Constructors Scheme
Construction Waste e.g. BRE SMARTWasteTM System
Monitoring of site CO2 (site energy and transport), water and control of dust and noise.

19. Optimise Health & Wellbeing Credits
Indoor noise (requirements for specific functional areas)
80% of relevant areas need to be adequately daylight
Glare Control
Openable windows in order to ensure a potential for natural ventilation
Air pollution – location of air inlets

20. Optimise Health & Wellbeing Credits cont.
Minimising risk of internal air pollution
40m2 Lighting zones (4 workplaces)
Thermal zoning
Openable windows
CIBSE lux levels
Occupant controllable blinds
Good daylighting

21. Optimise Energy Credits
Improvement over building regulations
U-values better than current Building Regulations
Sub-metering of major energy uses
Tenancy sub-metering
Pool covers (?)

22. Optimise Transport Credits
Green Transport Plan
Minimise car parking/occupant ratio
Provide secure and sheltered cycle locking spaces and facilities for cyclists

23. Optimise Water Credits
Dual flush WCs
Waterless urinals and WCs
PIR controls
Spray or Aerating taps
<9litres/min showers
Rainwater and Greywater usage
Automatic water shut off systems
Sanitary supply shut off
Water recycling including pool backwash (?)
Install a water meter !!

24. Optimise Materials Credits
Refurbishment rather than new building
Provide storage area for recyclable materials
Use of recycled aggregate material (for fill, hardcore etc)
Use of A rated materials from the Green Guide to Specification or use ENVEST
Design for robustness
2008 Update

25. Optimise Materials Credits cont.
Responsible Sourcing of Materials
Use materials with suitable sustainable certification
Timber should be certified under a recognised scheme, FSC and PEFC are best
Other materials should be EMAS or ISO14000 compliance
Credit is assessed based on proportion of certified materials
Tiered structure favours timber i.e. maximum credits cannot be achieved with non-timber construction

26. Optimise Land-use and Ecology Credits
Careful site selection
Assess before on-site work commences
Identify contaminated land
Involve an appropriately qualified Ecologist
Protect existing ecology
Promote species diversity, native species, habitat creation
Biodiversity management

27. Optimise Pollution Credits
Specify use of insulation materials with zero ODP and low GWP
Install oil interceptors
No refrigeration
Build in an area of low flood risk and/or mitigate any flood risk
Use of locally generated renewable energy
Low NOx boilers

28. Bespoke BREEAM setup process

29. Bespoke BREEAM Assessment Process
Bespoke BREEAM Setup Processes
Pre-assessment works / Scenarios
Formal Bespoke BREEAM Assessment
Assessment Delivery Report
Updated Status Report / Guidance
Final Assessment Report
QA & Certification
Post Construction Review
QA & Certification

30. Social Enterprise Projects
The two sides to Southfacing
London
Reading
Energy & Environmental Consultancy
Design & Development of Design Tools
As the two sides of the business cross reference each other it means that we provide a unique approach. The consultancy side keeps us at the cutting edge and we use this situation to see opportunities for software development (energy / environmental design tools). The software side in turn raises our profile and we often see consultancy work coming back in as a result. Both sides are doing well.
Social Enterprise Projects

31. Southfacing’s services
Energy & Environmental Consultancy
Part L analysis and energy assessments (NHER, SBEM, Tas etc)
Feasibility for low carbon technologies (building and site)
Environmental assessments (BREEAM, Sustainable Code etc.)
Software development
Carbon Checker (Southfacing)
Low Carbon Designer (London Energy Partnership / GLA)
Climate Lite (DTI / BRE)
Other at-risk projects….
This is the slide that I move about depending on whether the audience is more interested on the software or consultancy side

32. Climate Lite - Introduction
Funding provided through the BERR (formerly DTI) Technology Programme.
Steering Committee Chairman: Bill Gething (RIBA)
Project Partners:
BRE
Southfacing Services Ltd.
Cambridge Architectural Research
University of Cardiff
BGA Ltd.
Site
Form & Fabric
Energy

33. The Low Carbon Designer

34. Design Tools A Simple Part L2A Compliance checker incorporating SBEM
Now owned by Build Desk / Rockwool.

35. In Summary
Most benefits taken through early consideration of BREEAM.
Use your assessor – they are there to provide guidance and to work with the project team.
Major changes are coming with tighter standards.
BREEAM should not be considered in isolation.
BREEAM should be a collaboration between those setting the targets and those designing to the targets.
ASA / Authorities – What are your specific issues?