news from BRE

published: 25/2/2008

BRE Global and UK-GBC to partner on BREEAM

BRE Global and the UK Green Building Council have today announced that they will work together to further develop and promote BREEAM – taking the tool to the next level in a rapidly moving market.

BRE Global and UK-GBC will work together to:

• accelerate and broaden the take up of BREEAM tools throughout the industry
• make BREEAM tools increasingly more challenging as fast as the market will bear
• capture and benchmark best practice and disseminate that learning
• facilitate benchmarking of leading measurement systems internationally, working proactively with other Green Building Councils and the World Green Building Council
• facilitate mutual recognition by leading measurement systems, cross-licensing and collaborative development of new tools and techniques for enhancing the sustainability of the built environment

Paul King, Chief Executive of the UK-GBC said “BREEAM is long established and well respected, but must continue to innovate and develop if it is to serve the needs of this dynamic sector. We want to see radically improved uptake of BREEAM and ensure we facilitate learning on best practice from Green Building Councils around the world.

Carol Atkinson, Chief Executive of BRE Global said “We are delighted to work with and have the support of the UK-GBC in this.”

Press contact:

Simon Guy, BRE Global. T 01923 664305, E guys@bre.co.uk

Notes for Editors

1 BREEAM (BRE Environmental Assessment Method) is the world’s leading and most widely used environmental assessment method for buildings, with over 100,000 buildings certified and over half a million registered. It sets the standard for best practice in sustainable design and has become the de facto measure used to describe a building’s environmental performance. Credits are awarded in eight categories according to performance. These credits are then added together to produce a single overall score on a scale of Pass, Good, Very Good and Excellent. The operation of BREEAM is overseen by an independent Sustainability Board, representing a wide cross-section of construction industry stakeholders. www.breeam.org

2 BRE Global Limited (incorporating LPCB & BREEAM) is an independent third party approvals body offering certification of fire, security and sustainability products and services to an international market. Our product testing and approvals are carried out by recognised experts in our world renowned testing laboratories. We are custodian of a number of world leading brands including BREEAM and LPCB for the approval of fire and security products and services.

Our mission is to ‘Protect People, Property and the Planet’ and we are a trading subsidiary of the BRE Trust, the registered research and education charity which owns the BRE Group. For further information please contact: BRE Global, Garston, Watford, WD25 9XX, Tel: 01923 664100, Fax: 01923 664910, Email: enquiries@breglobal.com or visit www.breglobal.com.

3 The UK-GBC is an industry led, independent, not-for-profit membership based organization whose mission is to dramatically improve the sustainability of the built environment by radically transforming the way it is planned, designed, constructed, maintained and operated. www.ukgbc.org