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erials
credits
within
BREEAM
–
LCA,
the
Green
Guide
and
timber
Flavie
Lowres1,
Elodie
Macé1,
Nigel
Jones1
and
Ed
Suttie1
1
BRE,
Garston,
Watford,
WD25
9XX
United
Kingdom
LowresF@bre.co.uk;
MaceE@bre.co.uk;
JonesN@bre.co.uk;
SuttieE@bre.co.uk
Keywords:
life
cycle
analysis,
green
guide,
BREEAM,
materials,
timber
BREEAM
(BRE
2015)
is
the
world's
foremost
environmental
assessment
method
and
rating
system
for
buildings,
with
425,000
buildings
with
certified
BREEAM
assessment
ratings
and
two
million
registered
for
assessment
since
it
was
first
launched
in
1990
(Figure
1).
BREEAM
sets
the
standard
for
best
practice
in
sustainable
building
design,
construction
and
operation
and
has
become
one
of
the
most
comprehensive
and
widely
recognised
measures
of
a
building's
environmental
performance.
It
encourages
designers,
clients
and
others
to
think
about
low
carbon
and
low
impact
design,
minimising
the
energy
demands
created
by
a
building
before
considering
energy
efficiency
and
low
carbon
technologies.
BREEAM
addresses
wide-‐ranging
environmental
and
sustainability
issues
and
enables
developers,
designers
and
building
managers
to
demonstrate
the
environmental
credentials
of
their
buildings
to
clients,
planners
and
other
initial
parties.
It
does
this
by
using
a
straightforward
scoring
system
that
is
transparent,
flexible,
easy
to
understand,
and
supported
by
evidence-‐based
science
and
research.
An
important
component
of
a
BREEAM
assessment
are
the
materials
credits
available
which
increasingly
become
more
significant
as
the
operational
efficiency
of
buildings
improves
through
better
design
and
refurbishment
of
buildings
(Figure
2).
This
paper
focusses
on
the
life
cycle
assessment
for
determining
environmental
impacts
for
construction
product
functional
units
(e.g.
1m2
external
wall
meeting
existing
building
regulations),
the
thirteen
impact
categories
used,
and
their
conversion
to
an
ecopoints
score
normalised
to
a
European
citizen
(Figure
3)
and
ultimately
an
overall
rating
within
the
Green
Guide
for
Specification
(Green
Guide
2015).
The
paper
looks
at
the
timber
based
functional
units,
which
typically
attain
A
or
A+
ratings
within
the
Guide.
8
credits
within
BREEAM
–
LCA,
the
Green
Guide
and
timber
Flavie
Lowres1,
Elodie
Macé1,
Nigel
Jones1
and
Ed
Suttie1
1
BRE,
Garston,
Watford,
WD25
9XX
United
Kingdom
LowresF@bre.co.uk;
MaceE@bre.co.uk;
JonesN@bre.co.uk;
SuttieE@bre.co.uk
Keywords:
life
cycle
analysis,
green
guide,
BREEAM,
materials,
timber
BREEAM
(BRE
2015)
is
the
world's
foremost
environmental
assessment
method
and
rating
system
for
buildings,
with
425,000
buildings
with
certified
BREEAM
assessment
ratings
and
two
million
registered
for
assessment
since
it
was
first
launched
in
1990
(Figure
1).
BREEAM
sets
the
standard
for
best
practice
in
sustainable
building
design,
construction
and
operation
and
has
become
one
of
the
most
comprehensive
and
widely
recognised
measures
of
a
building's
environmental
performance.
It
encourages
designers,
clients
and
others
to
think
about
low
carbon
and
low
impact
design,
minimising
the
energy
demands
created
by
a
building
before
considering
energy
efficiency
and
low
carbon
technologies.
BREEAM
addresses
wide-‐ranging
environmental
and
sustainability
issues
and
enables
developers,
designers
and
building
managers
to
demonstrate
the
environmental
credentials
of
their
buildings
to
clients,
planners
and
other
initial
parties.
It
does
this
by
using
a
straightforward
scoring
system
that
is
transparent,
flexible,
easy
to
understand,
and
supported
by
evidence-‐based
science
and
research.
An
important
component
of
a
BREEAM
assessment
are
the
materials
credits
available
which
increasingly
become
more
significant
as
the
operational
efficiency
of
buildings
improves
through
better
design
and
refurbishment
of
buildings
(Figure
2).
This
paper
focusses
on
the
life
cycle
assessment
for
determining
environmental
impacts
for
construction
product
functional
units
(e.g.
1m2
external
wall
meeting
existing
building
regulations),
the
thirteen
impact
categories
used,
and
their
conversion
to
an
ecopoints
score
normalised
to
a
European
citizen
(Figure
3)
and
ultimately
an
overall
rating
within
the
Green
Guide
for
Specification
(Green
Guide
2015).
The
paper
looks
at
the
timber
based
functional
units,
which
typically
attain
A
or
A+
ratings
within
the
Guide.
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