The Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM).
BREEAM is a good measure of overall performance that you can use as a key marker against your sustainability vision and demonstrates your commitment to sustainability and reducing environmental impact whilst also ensuring your developmentComplies with local and national sustainability regulations and requirements.
BREEAM supports solutions to reduce carbon emissions to net zero, improve whole life performance, manage health and social impacts, boost circularity, resilience and biodiversity, and support disclosures and reporting.
How?
BREEAM is used to specify and measure the sustainability performance of buildings. Using this framework helps projects to meet their sustainability goals and achieve optimal performance over time.

Why BREEAM?
BREEAM provides a credible scientific framework, informed by BRE’s expertise in science and research. It provides meaningful insights to help you make smart decisions about the future of your assets.
BREEAM solutions
The BREEAM framework provides solutions to many of the key challenges facing the built environment, from working towards net zero carbon to addressing health and social impacts.
- Net zero carbon
- Whole life performance
- Health and social impacts
- Circularity and resilience
- Biodiversity and nature
- Disclosures and reporting
CIS provides a range of services for local authorities, developers and client strategic planning
Public Sector – CIS has numerous long term framework agreements providing appraisals of BREEAM submissions for developments to ensure future residential and domestic new build and refurbishment projects are designed to the highest standards making buildings as economic to operate as possible and future proofing against commercial and climactic changes to come.
Private Sector – CIS offer BREEAM assessment services for a range of developments as part of an integrated solution to develop highly efficient projects.