Construction Technology [Building Services]
BREEAM (Building Research Establishment’s Environmental Assessment Method) is the world’s leading and most widely used environmental assessment method for buildings, with over 562,400 buildings certified and 2,266,200 buildings registered for assessment since it was first launched in 1990. 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 ten 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.
Provide a strategy designed to optimise the potential BREEAM rating of the Corner Place project – a new 420 unit student accommodation block at the identified city centre site in Glasgow.
The report should contain:
- Analysis of the ethos behind BREEAM.
- Scope and application of BREEAM.
- Methodology of assessment, main areas of focus of the assessment categories.
- Discussion and justification of selected strategy and methods applied to the Corner Place project.
The report should be 2,000 words (10% over is allowable) and significant emphasis is placed on your ability to source and evaluate a wide range of sources covering the topic and in your ability to synthesis and draw your own conclusions. It is important that the report is well structured, easy to read, and demonstrates a good level of background research with emphasis placed on your own analysis. You do not need to include your references, diagrams and tables in the word count, only the main body of the text and you must state the word count at the end of the report.
