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Durham - BREEAM HEA01 Visual Comfort - 0191 633 0103
The office that covers this area is: Newcastle
The towns & cities that are covered within this county are:
Barnard Castle, Billingham, Bishop Auckland, Brandon, Chester le Street, Consett, Crook, Darlington, Durham, Eaglescliffe, Easington, Ferry Hill, Hartlepool, Lanchester, Middleton in Teeside, Murton, Newton Aycliffe, Peterlee, Seaham, Sedgefield, Shildon, Spennymoor, Stanley, Stockton on Tees, West Auckland, Willington, Wingate,
Phone Number: 0191 633 0103 Email: durham@e2consultants.co.uk
BREEAM is sometimes referred to as BREEAM Reports, BREEAM Assessment Ratings, BREEAM Assessments, BREEAM Assessors, BREEAM Rating.
What Are The Benefits of BREEAM?
It's the hope that the BREEAM assessment will help building owners and designers improve their carbon footprint across Durham and make better use of their resources. A BREEAM certification is a way of validating how good a building is in terms of the environmental impact through a globally recognised standard.
It's not unheard of that making a building more environmentally friendly will increase the cost of construction - but BREEAM aims to show that by building this way you will save on operational costs in the future that in turn limit investor costs and makes the property more attractive when reselling.
What Does BREEAM Stand For?
First published by the Building Reseearch Establishment (BRE) in 1990 covering buildings across Durham, BREEAM stands for Building Research Establishment's Enviromental Assement Method.
What Is A BREEAM Rating?
The BREEAM ratings for a new, non-domestic building in Durham are:
- Pass: standard good practice (top 75%)
- Good: intermediate good practice (top 50%)
- Very Good: advanced good practice (top 25%)
- Excellent: best practice (top 10%)
- Outstanding: innovator (top 1%)
The maximum score a building can achieve in Durham is 100% from a BREEAM assessment. It used to be that 'Good' was the maximum level that could be achieved, however in 2008 a new 'Outstanding' category was added. The percentage required for each level remained the same despite this.
Book Your BREEAM Assessment
For further information or to book your BREEAM assessment in Durham, call one of your BREEAM assessors on 0191 633 0103 or email breeam@e2consultants.co.uk.
How To Achieve BREEAM Excellence
The scoring for a BREEAM assessment in Durham is as follows:
- Outstanding: 85%+
- Excellent: 70%+
- Very Good: 55%+
- Good: 45%+
- Pass: 30%+
- Unclassified: <30%
How Is BREEAM Assessed?
BREEAM's aim is to educate building designers, owners and occupiers throughout Durham about the impact their building has on the local area. To do this, BREEAM gives a rating of Outstanding, Excellent, Very Good, Good or a Pass based on transport, waste, energy, health, water, pollution, materials, management and ecology.
Our other services include:
BREEAM HEA01 Visual Comfort can also be known as:
BREEAM HEA04 Thermal Comfort, BREEAM HEA05 Acoustic Performances, BREEAM HEA03 Thermal Comfort, BREEAM HEA01 Daylight Calculation, BREEAM Assessment, BREEAM Credit Report, BREEAM,


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