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| Essay:EE: BREEAMBREEAM is a tool that allows the owners, users and designers of buildings to review and improve environmental performance throughout the life of a building. It is a widely accepted and respected scheme that sets a benchmark for environmental performance and provides a wide range of benefits. It is independent and authoritative, being based on many years of construction and environmental research carried out at BRE together with the input and experience of the construction and property industries, Government and building regulators.Keeping up with best practice
BREEAM is regularly updated to take advantage of new research, to reflect changing priorities in regulations and in the market place and to build on experience gained. The aim is to ensure that BREEAM continues to represent current best practice, going beyond what is required by regulations. This latest version of BREEAM Offices, launched in September 1998, includes major changes in the way BREEAM operates, incorporates several major environmental issues, and includes a new way of assigning priorities between the issues covered based on consensus. | ||||||||||