BREEAM

BREEAM is the government’s chosen assessment method for judging the environmental credentials of commercial buildings in the UK. It is likely to become mandatory for all buildings in the next few years and as such, it is in the interests of all those concerned to become knowledgeable about how it works. By employing a BREEAM assessor early in the planning process, the costs of achieving a good BREEAM rating are minimised.

Important Note:
BREEAM 2008 has 2 free Innovations credits available for appointing a BREEAM Accredited Professional at or before the start of RIBA Stage B(Strategic Brief), inviting the assessor to all design team meetings and including them in the circulation of meeting minutes. Buildings for Tomorrow can offer a BREEAM Accredited Professional to provide this advice and to achieve the 2 credits.

In order to avoid duplication of work, some useful information for carrying out BREEAM assessments is given below:

Companies with ISO 14001 Certification

BREEAM Credit Mat 5 requires materials used in the main elements of the building to have EMS, EMAS or ISO 14001 certification, or in the case of timber to have FSC or other certification.

You can find a list of companies here who have certification for some part of the process. It will be necessary to check with them to obtain copies of their certificates with expiry dates etc. and to find whether their certification is for extraction as well as production.

Aggregate Industries UK Ltd (aggregates, asphalt,concrete and precast products)
(This includes AI’s businesses – Aggregate Supplies, Bardon Aggregates, Bardon Contracting, Bardon Concrete, Bradstone, Charcon, Fyfestone, Garside Sands, London Concrete, Masterblock, Paragon Materials, Yeoman Asphalt)
Alumasc (facades, render products, profiled metal roofing, green roofs, membranes)
British Gypsum
Cemex (Concrete)
Clearwood Uk (Glass and glazing)
Colas (Road Surfacing)
Coltman Precast Concrete Ltd
Corus (Steel, Kalzip roofing systems)
Euroclad (Roofing systems)
Hanson (Bricks, concrete blocks)
Ibstock (Bricks)
Indupart (Rainscreen cladding)
Kingspan (Wall and Roof cladding materials)
Leaderflush Shapland – internal timber doors and doorsets
Limetec (Lime mortars)
Marley Eternit (Roofing, sheeting and cladding)
Marshalls – Hard Landscaping
Profile 22 (U-pvc windows and doors)
Rheinzink (zinc roofing products)
Saint Gobain Glass UK (Architectural glass)
Sandtoft (some of their roofing products)
Sika Ltd
Sto Ltd (Wall coatings and render)
Swish Building Products (claddings, fascias and soffits)
Tarmac (Concrete)
Velfax (windows and doors\0
Velux (roof windows
Ward Insulated Panels Ltd ( Insulated wall and roof panels)
Weinerberger (Bricks)

FSC products

Leaderflush Shapland – internal timber doors and doorsets
Doors – Ecoplus
Ecoclad
Windows-Ecoplus
Ecoclad
Viking

Companies with Certification under BRE Global Responsible Sourcing Scheme BES 6001.

This is the BRE’s own scheme as an alternative to ISO14001 which can potentially provide more credits as it can put non timber products into Tiers 1 and 2

Aggregate Industries – Score: Very Good. Tier 1
Weinerberger Ltd (Clay Bricks)
H + H UK Ltd (Aircrete blocks, aircrete reinforced elements)
Hanson Quarry Products Europe (Ready Mix concrete, Aggregates)
Cemex (Ready Mix concrete)
Lafarge (Ready Mix concrete)

Insulation Companies with ISO 14001 Certification

The second credit for Mat 6 requires insulation companies to have ISO14001, EMS or EMAS certification for the production as well as supply chain processes of its materials.

The following companies have this:
Kingspan
Knauf
Rockwool are in the process of trying to acheive this.
There may be others.