BREEAM Assessment & Consultancy

At Catalyst, we can provide both BREEAM Assessors and in-house certified BREEAM Accredited Professionals to guide your team through the BREEAM certification process for new construction, core & shell, refurbishment, and fit-out projects to ensure their building achieves the highest possible sustainability rating. 

The key differences between a BREEAM Assessor and a BREEAM AP are that while the assessor is responsible for collecting evidence, monitoring compliance and submitting reports to BRE for quality assurance, the BREEAM AP provides expert advice to the design team throughout the design process to ensure the most sustainable design is achieved along with facilitating the scheduling of activities, negotiating trade-offs and setting priorities.

BREEAM Assessor Services

The BREEAM Assessor service includes a range of stages:

• BREEAM Pre-Assessment: The engagement starts with a BREEAM pre-assessment phase, where the sustainability issues that need to be addressed at the project design and construction phases are identified.
• Design Stage: Catalyst works with the project team during the design stage to incorporate sustainable features and materials into the building design to maximise the BREEAM rating.
• Construction Stage: During the construction stage, Catalyst collaborates with the project team to ensure sustainable features and materials are implemented as intended.
• BREEAM Certification Stage: After construction, Catalyst assists the project team in obtaining BREEAM certification by reviewing the building’s sustainability performance and preparing the necessary documentation.

Overall, Catalyst’s BREEAM consultancy service aims to help project teams achieve high levels of sustainability and environmental performance for their new construction projects. By leveraging the expertise of Catalyst’s accredited BREEAM Assessors, project teams can ensure that their buildings meet the highest environmental standards while also benefiting from reduced operational costs and increased marketability.

BREEAM AP (Accredited Professional) / Sustainability Champion

Catalyst offers our clients, as an added value to BREEAM certifications, the option to appoint a Catalyst team member as their Sustainability Champion, also known as a BREEAM AP (Accredited Professional). The BREEAM AP is a specialist in built environment sustainability, environmental design, and assessment. 

The role of the BREEAM AP is to facilitate the project team’s efforts to successfully schedule activities, set priorities and negotiate the trade-offs required to achieve a target BREEAM rating when the design is formally assessed. With this specialist, the projects could achieve three extra credits in the certification.

Catalyst also offers BREEAM In-Use Assessor services for existing buildings.