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published: 20/8/2010
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"Spring" achieves design-stage BREEAM Outstanding
"Spring" in Nanterre is the first building to achieve an interim ‘Outstanding' rating under BREEAM Europe Commercial 2009.
The development by Bouygues Immobilier and Archon Group has achieved 90% - the highest ever score under BREEAM for a building at the design stage.
Carol Atkinson, Chief Executive of BRE Global, said: "This is a remarkable achievement for an exceptional building design and is a credit to the developer, the BREEAM Assessor and the rest of the project team."
Anne-Sophie Colin of Greenaffair, BREEAM Assessors, said: "BREEAM Europe certification enables our investors to compare their new projects and provides us with the motivation to reach better environmental performance."
The building is four storeys high with a floor area of 35 200m2. It includes social areas and a restaurant, together with basement parking and landscaped areas. It scored particularly highly under BREEAM through features such as :
• Heating and cooling provided by geothermal heat pumps
• Automatic mechanical ventilation with heat recovery
• Solar panels providing 45% of the hot water used in the restaurant
• Low-energy lighting
• 6 500m2 of photovoltaic panels
• 100% of water used in WCs and for irrigation provided by rainwater collection and recycling
• Highly insulated building fabric
Further information on BREEAM Europe Commercial can be found at www.breeam.org/international
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Notes for Editors
1 BREEAM (BRE Environmental Assessment Method) is the leading and most widely used environmental assessment method for buildings around the world, with 200,000 buildings certified and over a million buildings in total registered under the scheme. 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 nine categories according to performance. These credits are then added together to produce a single overall score on a scale of Pass, Good, Very Good, Excellent and Outstanding, which is also reflected in a star rating from 1 to 5 stars 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. BRE Global mission is to ‘Protect People, Property and the Planet' and is 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, UK, WD25 9XX, Tel: +44 (0)1923 664100, Fax: +44 (0)1923 664910, Email: enquiries@breglobal.com or visit www.breglobal.com
3 "Spring" (formerly 53 Rue du Port, Nanterre, France) achieved an interim rating of ‘Outstanding' under BREEAM Europe Commercial : Offices 2009, with a score of 90.00%. BREEAM Assessor : Greenaffair; Client : SCCV Lavoisier; Developer : Bouygues Immobilier; Architect : Di Fiore Architecture & Associés; Project Manager : Auris.
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