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About us Through our global network, we assist our clients in managing all aspects of their construction projects. We provide support for the whole lifecycle of a building, construction project or industrial facility: from design (review and verifications on new projects or refurbishments) and construction (risks and quality control), to commissioning (conformity assessment), use, operations (maintenance or health and safety audits) or transactions (due diligence from vendor or buyer side). 03/2011 - photos: Fotolia / Bureau Veritas / Bureau Fotolia 03/2011 - photos: Americas Europe, Middle East & Africa Asia-Pacific 200 offices 520 offices 210 offices Property Services 10,800 employees 20,500 employees 16,700 employees 30 countries 78 countries 37 countries Bureau Veritas 67/71, boulevard du Château - 92571 Neuilly sur Seine Cedex - France www.bureauveritas.com - [email protected] Follow the Bureau Veritas Sustainability Group on LinkedIn Professional services for forward-thinking property sector organizations Bureau Veritas helps clients define their strategies, manage risk, monitor quality, improve performance and enhance their return on investment throughout the critical design, construction and transaction phases. 2 A unique support throughout the building life cycle Bureau Veritas’ services help clients minimize risk and Construction improve performance throughout the occupancy and active The design and construction phases of a project are fraught operational stage: with risk. A poorly managed implementation program can lead to catastrophic building defects, exponential costs in Property condition assessment and monitoring time and budget, and non-compliance with environmental in-service inspection and verification standards. Health and safety assessments Bureau Veritas’ services ensure projects are managed Green RatingTM and Green Building consultancy professionally, with clear and realistic objectives that safeguard building soundness and the wellbeing of future Transactions occupiers: The process of selling, buying or leasing property and land is Project management assistance (permit application subject to complex risks in terms of the efficacy of existing assistance, design verification, schedule quantity and cost buildings, regulatory compliance issues and transactional monitoring, quality assurance/quality control, construction procedures. site safety) Construction technical control Bureau Veritas’ services help clients negotiate the maze of Bureau Veritas provides a wide range global regulatory, compliance and legal requirements: of professional services to support Green Building consultancy and certifications (LEED, BREEAM) construction, operation and transactions. Technical due diligence / Energy due diligence Operation Environmental site assessment At no stage in the property asset lifecycle is a thorough Health, safety and environmental assessments experience of regulatory compliance, licensing, health and Green RatingTM safety and environmental responsibility more important. The Green Building gap analysis (LEED, BREEAM) risks of corporate liability and non-compliance can escalate significantly without the support of experts. 3 Professional services for the construction phase of a project Project Management Assistance Construction technical control Green Building and sustainability Bureau Veritas’ Green Building and sustainability service incorporates one or all of the following: Due to a minefield of regulatory conditions, construction Regulatory, compliance and legal obligations together with Property owners are under increasing pressure to reduce schedules and resource constraints, property projects have insurance requirements present complex challenges during the environmental impact of new and existing buildings and become increasingly complex. Clients are now turning to the design and construction phase of a project. to build-in sustainability as part of every project. Yet, the Certification assistance to project owners experts to implement a professional project management legislation that surrounds environmental and sustainability Assistance on elaboration of private labels/internal program that improves performance during the construction Bureau Veritas’ construction technical control service phase. incorporates issues such as building soundness, seismic issues is complex and far reaching, with international policy charter or policy resistance, acoustic and thermal performance, occupier and targets varying considerably. Certification of building projects Bureau Veritas delivers a reliable, dependable project safety, disabled accessibility as well as mechanical, electrical Green Building consultancy and training (LEED, BREEAM, and engineering functionality. Bureau Veritas is helping the property sector navigate the management service that identifies and resolves quality and HQE, DGNB, etc.) safety issues early, and minimizes the risk of schedule delays path to a viable, effective sustainability agenda that delivers and cost overruns. Every element of this service is designed to achieve and economic value, identifies opportunity, minimizes risk and LEED commissioning maintain compliance at each stage of the project. improves performance at every level. Bureau Veritas’ project management assistance incorporates one or all of the following: Bureau Veritas’ construction technical control service Green Building includes a number of sustainability initiatives, incorporates one or all of the following: Permit application including LEED, BREEAM, HQE and other environmental Design verification performance tools and benchmark databases that Bureau Design verification Veritas manages on behalf of clients. Schedule, quantity and cost monitoring On-site inspection Quality assurance and quality control Construction site safety Construction site safety Inherent defect insurance control 5 6 Professional services to support the operational phase of a project Property condition assessment and monitoring In-service inspection and verification Health, safety and environment Green Building and sustainability Bureau Veritas delivers a comprehensive range of professional When the construction phase is complete and the commission Bureau Veritas helps clients achieve and maintain compliance As the pressure grows for property owners to reduce their services that help clients achieve, maintain and demonstrate process begins, it is imperative the job of inspecting and with health, safety and environment requirements through environmental impact, Bureau Veritas is delivering services compliance with regulatory and legal obligations. verifying the conformity of all equipment and associated audit, inspection, measurement and testing services. to support the Green Building and sustainability initiatives, installations is conducted by experts in compliance. including full site energy audits. These include a number of technical services that are Bureau Veritas’ occupational health and safety and designed to help global property owners and operators In-service assessment, inspection and verification begin environmental services incorporate one or all of the following: Bureau Veritas’ Green Building and sustainability services assess the condition of their property as well as monitor the when a building is commissioned and continue periodically Indoor environment quality incorporate energy audits and certification including the compliance and risk of their property portfolio. to ensure the client remains compliant with legal, regulatory following: and insurance requirements. Hazardous substances sampling and management Energy performance certificates Bureau Veritas’ property condition assessment and Risk assessment for indoor air and water quality monitoring service incorporates one or all of the following: Bureau Veritas’ in-service inspection and verification Health, safety and environmental assessments Diagnosis of energy consumption Regulatory compliance audit service incorporates one or all of the following: Technical recommendations and feasibility studies for Our specific environmental services are wide-ranging and include: renewable energy projects Technical diagnosis Electrical installations Emissions measurement / Soil pollution Carbon footprint Environmental site assessment Pressure equipment Environmental impact assessment Smart metering Maintenance audits Fire safety systems Flood risk assessment and alleviation schemes ISO 14001 certification Regulatory monitoring Heating and cooling systems Odor assessments, monitoring and modeling Certification of CSR annual report Quality monitoring Lifts Machinery Noise and vibration mitigation studies Contaminated land management 7 8 Professional services to support property transactions Technical due diligence Environmental site assessment GreenRating TM and energy due diligence The process of selling, buying or leasing property and land is Bureau Veritas’ environmental scientists conduct The main objectives of the Green RatingTM initiative are to subject to complex risks that only professional technical due assessments of property sites that can reveal the presence of assess, rate and benchmark the environmental performance diligence procedures will present. hazardous substances, which can present a danger to public of buildings and to evaluate the main aspects of a building’s health and the environment. use, to monitor its performance and to recommend energy The process can be applied during the