www.breeam.com Best of BREEAM 2014 Today’s most sustainable buildings 2 Innovation and quality It only takes a quick look through the shortlists for the BREEAM Awards 2014 to be reminded of the rich vein of ingenious innovation and commitment to quality that runs through our industry. This has been another year of extraordinary achievement – the highest ever BREEAM scores, the first BREEAM Outstanding refurbishment, the first Outstanding in China, the first certifications under BREEAM In-Use International, and the list goes on. A notable feature of the 2014 Awards is the extensive international representation. Having contributed much to the strong focus on sustainability in building design, construction and use in the UK, BREEAM has become one of our major export success stories. Gavin Dunn, More than 25% of assessments are now outside of the Director of BREEAM UK, with demand in some sectors growing particularly rapidly. France, for example, is currently the biggest market in Europe for BREEAM In-Use, and French buildings dominate the In-Use category in this year’s awards. Along with the growing global spread of BREEAM, comes increasing evidence of the benefits of sustainability in terms of enhancing – at little cost – the quality, appeal and value of buildings. Later this year, for example, we will be presenting the results of a new research study from Sweett Group and BRE, which examined the capital costs associated with a range of sustainable approaches in a variety of building types. The report concludes that sustainability improvements can be achieved at little or no additional cost. Where extra capital costs do accrue, they can often be repaid through lower operational costs and lead to savings over the building’s operational life. ‘Delivering Sustainable Buildings – Savings & Payback’, will be published in May. Other news for the coming year includes the introduction of BREEAM UK New Construction 2014. A response to proposed changes to UK building regulations and SUDs standards, this revision incorporates outcomes from the most extensive consultation process ever undertaken for a BREEAM scheme. Leading industry bodies and a wide range of individual stakeholders, including BREEAM assessors and clients, provided feedback on all aspects of the new scheme. We believe that the 2014 update will not only help you to create better, more sustainable and more robust assets, but also give greater flexibility in respect of the evidence that is required to demonstrate compliance. Looking further ahead, this autumn we plan to launch a new standalone version of BREEAM for assessing non-domestic building refurbishments and fit-outs in the UK. Currently in the final development stage, a draft BREEAM Refurbishment & Fit-Out 2014 scheme document will be released for consultation shortly. We are also planning to gather further real-life BREEAM cost data to ensure the scheme is as cost-effective as possible and working to enhance the online delivery of BREEAM, make greater use of building information modelling (BIM) and introduce more effective data exploitation. All of these initiatives are aimed at ensuring that BREEAM is and remains the most authoritative, comprehensive and widely used environmental assessment and certification system for buildings and communities around the world. Front cover images: top left - PwC, One Embankment Place bottom left - Brandon Primary School right - Franshion’s Green Building Exhibition Centre 3 Innovation and quality d e b fi u i t i l r d e i n c 270,000 The awards judging process g s The judging process for the BREEAM Awards s i n has been refreshed this year. In previous years c e awards were based simply on the highest 1 9 9 8 scoring BREEAM buildings in each scheme. This year the five highest scoring buildings ellent o in each scheme formed a series of category xc r O shortlists, which were put before a panel of E u eminent industry judges. The judges made M ts the final choice of winner, taking into account t A a the BREEAM score achieved alongside factors E n such as the value of the building to its occupiers E and users, and particular site constraints. d R i n B The judging panel for the 2014 awards is: g d in Alan Yates, Technical Director, e 1 4 Sustainability, BRE Global (chair) t a Cat Hirst, Education Manager, UK r Green Building Council Claudine Blamey, Head of Sustainability, The Crown Estate Phil Heenan, Head of Construction Policy and Standards, Office of Government Commerce, Cabinet Office in e Hywel Davies, Technical Director, Chartered x ce Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE). s d s The format for the awards for the assessors e 78 o s of the year and the assessor organisation f of the year remains unchanged. s e s million Another new feature of this year’s awards is the s a Your BREEAM Award, a people’s choice award 2 a organised with BRE’s Building4change.com. For e m r a this award, the top three scoring building projects r o o (top two for BREEAM In-Use) formed a longlist fl and readers of Building4change.com were then given the opportunity to vote for the project that they considered most deserved public recognition. The open online poll ran for two weeks in February, recording thousands of votes. 4 This year’s BREEAM Awards shortlists Recognising the highest scoring buildings certified under BREEAM between 1 January 2013 and 31 December 2013, together with achievement awards for BREEAM assessors. To view complete listings of BREEAM certified buildings (since 2008) go to www.greenbooklive.com/breeambuildings and to generate a Google map go to www.greenbooklive.com/breeamlive Score Project Assessor Stage Rating Client/Developer Architect Contractor % Offices Price Waterhouse One Embankment Place Chapman BDSP Final 96.31 Outstanding TP Bennett Overbury Coopers The Co-operative 3D Reid 1 Angel Square Buro Happold Final 95.16 Outstanding BAM Construction Group Architects Wereldhave / BNP Viguier et Zenora-Noda Alto Ingénierie Interim 92.07 Outstanding PRE & Poste Immo Associés Development JV Waterman Energy, Quadrant 2 South Environment and Interim 90.65 Outstanding The Crown Estate Barr Gazetas Sisk Design Innovation Farm Visitor National Institute of R H Partnership Rolton Group Interim 89.38 Outstanding SDC Builders Limited Centre Office Agricultural Botany Architects Retail SCI Eiffel Levallois Epstein & So Ouest GreenAffair Final 78.39 Excellent Commerces / Unibail- Glaiman Rodamco John Lewis John Lewis at Home and Brooker Flynn / Synergy BSS Final 77.98 Excellent Partnership & Bowmer & Kirkland Waitrose Ipswich Farrell & Clark Waitrose Drees & Sommer Citti Advanced Building AX5 Architekten Generalunternehmer Citti Park Flensburg Interim 77.52 Excellent Handelsgesellschaft Technologies bda Koster GMBH mbH & Co.KG GmbH Bamber and Waitrose Greenwich Synergy BSS Interim 77.52 Excellent Waitrose Bowmer and Kirkland Reddan Sjögren Brf Ankarparken 1 Cowi AB Interim 77.15 Excellent Hökerum Bygg AB Hökerum Bygg AB Arkitekter AB Industrial Project Phoenix Easlar Interim 90.96 Outstanding Diageo RKD Architects Sisk Brewhouse Filwood Green Business Halcrow Group Interim 90.15 Outstanding Bristol City Council Stride Treglown Park Cornish Tudor Estate - Building 1 Woods Hardwick Final 87.05 Outstanding SEGRO plc Winvic Architects Bombay Sapphire Bacardi Martini GWP Project GWP Distillery Process Interim 86.81 Outstanding / Bombay Spirits Services Architecture Buildings Company Waterman Energy, Siemens Real Estate / Stephen George Siemens Plc Workshop Environment and Final 86.24 Outstanding Bowmer & Kirkland St Modwens & Partners Design Mixed Use and Other Buildings WWF Living Planet Hopkins Atelier Ten Interim 89.85 Outstanding WWF-UK Wilmott Dixon Centre Architects Project Horizon Data Hurley Palmer Flatt Interim 88.56 Outstanding ARC- MC Mace Centre Ocean Housing Prince Charles House Eight Associates Final 88.51 Outstanding PRP Gilbert & Goode Group 5 Score Project Assessor Stage Rating Client/Developer Architect Contractor What do a % Mixed Use and Other Buildings continued China Railway businessFranshion Green Building park Franshion Properties Feilden Clegg EcoIntel Interim 88.28 Outstanding Construction Exhibition Centre (China) Bradley Studios in Wigan, a Corporation Dogs Trust Loughborough RES Advisory Final 88.17 Outstanding Dogs Trust Napier & Co McPhillips Limited constructionRehoming Centre companyEducation HQ Energy Technologies University of Anderson Green Final 89.14 Outstanding Maber Architects Clegg Construction Building Nottingham in France Carmarthenshire Austin Smith Ysgol Ffwrnes Melin Consultants Interim 87.64 Outstanding WRW Group County Council Lord and Number Durham County Redbox Brandon Primary School WYG Group Interim 87.64 Outstanding Sir Robert McAlpine Council Architecture Edinburgh Centre for University of Malcom Fraser 10 DowningAECOM Interim 87.11 Outstanding Graham Construction Carbon Innovation Edinburgh Architects Morgan Sindall Street have in Archial Carnegie Primary School Professional Final 85.48 Outstanding Fife Council Morgan Sindall Architects common? Services Residential The Blewburton Bluebray Fourways House Final 77.65 Excellent JRP Associates Star Walls Builders Partnership Developments Watkins Payne MSMR Albany House Interim 77.42 Excellent The Crown Estate John Sisk & Son Partnership Architects Places for people GHM Brooklands Phase 1B Stroma Technology Interim 77.05 Excellent Developments Partnership Glasgow RMJM Commonwealth Games RMJM Architecture Interim 75.98 Excellent City Legacy Architecture Athletes’ Village Graylingwell