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
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Official external links
General links to official resources covering many schemes
Featured articles and news
Plumbing and heating for sustainability in new properties
Technical Engineer runs through changes in regulations, innovations in materials, and product systems.
Awareness of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
What CBAM is and what to do about it.
The new towns and strategic environmental assessments
12 locations of the New Towns Taskforce reduced to 7 within the new towns draft programme and open consultation.
Buildings that changed the future of architecture. Book review.
The Sustainability Pathfinder© Handbook
Built environment agency launches free Pathfinder© tool to help businesses progress sustainability strategies.
Government outcome to the late payment consultation, ECA reacts.
IHBC 2025 Gus Astley Student Award winners
Work on the role of hewing in UK historic conservation a win for Jack Parker of Oxford Brookes University.
Future Homes Building Standards and plug-in solar
Parts F and L amendments, the availability of solar panels and industry responses.
How later living housing can help solve the housing crisis
Unlocking homes, unlocking lives.
Preparing safety case reports for HRBs under the BSA
A new practical guide to preparing structural inputs for safety cases and safety case reports published by IStructE.
Male construction workers and prostate cancer
CIOB and Prostate Cancer UK encourage awareness of prostate cancer risks, and what to do about it.
The changed R&D tax landscape for Architects
Specialist gives a recap on tax changes for Research and Development, via the ACA newsletter.
Structured product data as a competitive advantage
NBS explain why accessible product data that works across digital systems is key.
Welsh retrofit workforce assessment
Welsh Government report confirms Wales faces major electrical skills shortage, warns ECA.
A now architectural practice looks back at its concept project for a sustainable oceanic settlement 25 years on.
Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
Government report and back track on copyright opt out for AI training but no clear preferred alternative as yet.
Embedding AI tools into architectural education
Beyond the render: LMU share how student led research is shaping the future of visualisation workflows.
Why document control still fails UK construction projects
A Chartered Quantity Surveyor explains what needs to change and how.
Inspiration for a new 2026 wave of Irish construction professionals.
New planning reforms and Warm Homes Bill
Take centre stage at UK Construction Week London.
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