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BREEAM – Driving sustainable Real Estate and creating value

BREEAM
Driving sustainable real estate and creating value

BREEAM is the world’s first sustainability rating scheme for the built environment. Since its launch in 1990, BREEAM has contributed much to the strong focus on sustainability in building design, construction and use in the UK and this is now extending on a global basis. BREEAM is the most widely used sustainable building assessment method in the world, now used in more than 50 countries. BREEAM’s influence has extended beyond the purely environmental aspects of sustainability, to those of building quality, performance and value. It has been credited with significantly improving site practice, material specification and building design.

Creating value

The commercial importance of sustainability is becoming increasingly apparent. A survey of property investors in 2010, for example, posed the question ‘How will green buildings perform against non-green buildings?’ An overwhelming 86% of respondents said that green buildings will become more valuable. Subsequent studies have provided a growing body of evidence that BREEAM-rated buildings provide increased rates of return for investors, and increased rental rates and sales premiums for developers and owners.

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