BREEAM Wiki key articles
This page is to support users accessing and contributing to articles related to specific schemes and stakeholder groups. This is a protected page, if you have an article you would like to be listed, either email [email protected] or add a comment at the foot of the page.
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Multiple Author Articles
Flagship' content relating to individual sustainability topics:
General multiple author articles, easy to add to:
- BREEAM Misconceptions
- BREEAM Easy wins
- BREEAM and RIBA stages
- BREEAM Evidence types by issue
- BREEAM Evidence gathering
- BREEAM Site visits
- Common pitfalls relating to BREEAM assessments
- Design team perception of the BREEAM standard
- Early BREEAM stakeholder engagement
- How to track progress on a BREEAM Project
- Tips for a new BREEAM assessor
General articles
- BREEAM Online information map
- BREEAM Wiki article title suggestions
- BREEAM Wiki value - tell us your ideas
Schemes
CEEQUAL
General: BREEAM and CEEQUAL,
Communities
General: BREEAM Communities, Social Sustainability at Master-planning Stage, A renaissance in the idea of garden villages and towns, The case for BREEAM Communities
Crowd-sourced: Lessons learnt
Domestic Refurbishment
General: Retrofit-led regeneration in Greater Manchester
Home Quality Mark
General: HQM, Access and space, Green finance, Making energy calculations more accurate with HQM, 5 things you need to know about HQM ONE, Improving home quality with HQM ONE
Crowd-sourced; Differences between HQM Beta and HQM ONE
In-Use
General: BREEAM In-Use International 2015
New Construction
UK
BREEAM Issue Support Documents
BREEAM UK New Construction 2018 changes summary
International
BREEAM Issue Support Documents
Refurbishment and Fit-Out
BREEAM Issue Support Documents
Stakeholders
While the initial content of this wiki has been created mainly by BREEAM assessors and APs a key reason for creating it is to include ALL stakeholders. We welcome whole articles from the stakeholders below or smaller contributions to any Multiple Author Article.
All stakeholders
For specific sustainability issues, add your stakeholder perspective in the 'Tips and best practice' section in the Issue Support Documents
Contractors
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Design Teams
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Developers
Local Planning Authorities
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Subject Experts
Awaiting content
Official external links
General links to official resources covering many schemes
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Planning condition discharge in England and Wales
A brief exoplanation from a building compliance expert, with further links.
Overheating guidance and tools for building designers
Guidance for dealing with element of building fabric control that have increasing importance.
Shading for housing, a design guide
From the Good Homes Alliance and British Blind and Shutter Association.
UK Standard Skills Classification (SSC)
A shared framework for describing skills needs.
Social media ban consultation comes to close
CIOB urges UK Government to consider social media’s role in careers guidance in ban debate.
The latest of eight Skills England apprenticeship units
The addition of battery manufacturing welcomed by ECA with a warning about the risks of fast-tracked apprenticeship units.
Building Control Independent Panel final report
A precis of a key report led by Dame Hackitt with full recommendations and link to the government response.
Building Safety recap April, 2026
A short and longer run-through of the month, with links to further information and sources.
CIAT May 2026 briefing.
From medieval scribes to modern word art.
ECA welcomes crackdown on late payment and push for clean energy, whilst CIOB seek fixed cladding removal timeframes.
Cyber Security in the Built Environment
Protecting projects, data, and digital assets: A CIOB Academy TIS.
Managing competence in the built environment
ITFG publishes new industry guide on how to meet the ICC principles.
The UK's campaign to reduce noise pollution: Mythbusting, articles and topic guides.
Comments
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