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BREEAM

“Not all chemicals are bad. e.g. Without hydrogen & oxygen there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer”

Dave Barry

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AGENDA

1. Who Are BRE / What is BREEAM

2. Rating Calculation Method

3. Building

4. Our Scores

5. BREEAM2

6. New Products

7. BREEAM & LEED

8. Questions

Who Are BRE

• Established 80 years ago

• Dedicated to all aspects of the built environment

• Growing focus on improving environmental performance of buildings

Building Research Establishment

A private enterprise, sponsored by gov’t, in business to make profit through fees

Building

Research

Establishment

Environmental

Assessment

Method

What is BREEAM

What Is An Environmental Profile?

• Measurement of the environmental performance of a material, product or system over a set time period (60 years)

– Extraction of raw materials & transport (“cradle to grave”)

– Production (“gate to gate”)

– Transport, installation & end of life (“gate to grave”)

• Achieved using Life Cycle Assessment Method (LCA)

• Outcome is 3rd party Environmental Product Declaration (EPD)

Simple Example of LCA Thinking

Extraction

Creation

Maintenance

Disposal

True Or False?

“In a typical building the floor covering can have a greater environmental impact than any other material”

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How Is The Rating Calculated

Derivation of Ecopoints

Impacts

Weighting

Normalised

Data

ECOPOINTS

Rating – Soft Floor Coverings

Ecopoints per m20 1.44 2.85 4.25

BREEAM Ratings – TodayFor the Product

Rating – Soft Floor Coverings

Ecopoints per m2

0 1.4 2.85 4.25

BREEAM Ratings – TodayFor the Product

A rating versus B

A = 1.4B = 1.5

Difference = 0.1 ecopoints

Equates to:

6.5 miles by articulated truck

30 miles urban driving

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The Building

• “Construction materials relate to 10% of the total score available within BREEAM 98 for offices”.

BREEAM Building Standards

• If the Architect is building to BREEAM standards, what Building Rating are they trying to achieve?

Pass

Good

Very Good

Excellent

BREEAM Building Standards

All Schools must be rated as a minimum – Very Good

Building Grades – Matrix of Floorcovering Impact

Grade Schools Offices – Design

Offices Mgmt /

Operation

Retail Pre-Assessment

Retail –Fit Out

Retail – Mgmt /

Operation

Pass 25 25 20 35 45 35

Good 40 40 35 50 55 50

Very Good

55 55 50 60 65 60

Excellent 70 70 65 65 70 65

Floors 0.056 – 50% A1.152 – 80% A

1 – Cleaning Method-

ology

0.83 0 – Only talks

about upper floors

2 – A rated floor

finishes

0 –Only talks

about upper floors

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Our Scores

Bonar Ratings

Teviot ‘A’ Rated

Apex “A” Rated

Silica ‘A’ Rated

We are currently awaiting results for Tuftiguard. Coral is being audited w/c

11th August.

Bonar Ratings

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Changes To BREEAM

BREEAM Ratings - June 2008

Ratings – Soft Floorcoverings (June 2008)

A+ A B C D E

The new scheme will employ the same approach but it will create a larger number of subdivisions

The conversion of existing ABC ratings to the new Categories is currently under discussion

Be Aware…

• The BREEAM scheme benchmarks us against our competitors.

• If they improve & we don’t, our rating will decrease

• This means we have to adopt continuous improvement

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New Products

• A product must be in production 12 months before it can be assessed by BRE (it is possible to be assessed in a 6 month time frame but the result will not be as accurate)

• An “aged” product is then assessed in the same way as any other product.

This can cause a “chicken and egg situation” – you can’t sell your products until you get a rating and you can’t get a rating until you have at least 12 months worth of production.

To date we are still pressing BRE to provide a solution for the industry

How Are New Products Assessed

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BRE & LEED

• BREEAM has been viewed as being a UK scheme. They now refer to themselves as BRE Global – which is aimed at attracting a wider market. It is gaining a foothold in Europe.

• LEED is the USA version of BREEAM. It is expanding from its North American base and is growing in popularity in the Far East.

• As our awareness increases and the need to make positive grows, schemes such as BREEAM and LEED, will find increasing favour. However from a manufacturers perspective it is important that the number of schems is kept to a minimum