BREEAM AP study guide
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The BREEAM Accredited Professional (BREEAM AP) is a professional credential associated with BREEAM, described on BREEAM's own site as "the leading holistic framework for assessing sustainability in the global built environment" and as "the world's leading science-based frameworks for assessing, validating and certifying sustainability in the built environment." This page is an independent study resource for candidates preparing for a BREEAM AP examination; it is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by BRE or BREEAM. Because the BREEAM AP page on breeam.com returned a 404 error when retrieved, no official exam specification could be confirmed. The BREEAM AP study guide has 5 sections and about 1,532 words.
01BREEAM New Construction: Core Concepts
BREEAM New Construction assesses a building at the design and construction stage across a fixed set of environmental categories: energy, water, materials, waste, ecology, pollution, transport, health and wellbeing, and management (plus innovation credits). Each category contains issues, each issue contains assessment criteria, and criteria award credits.
325 words, about 2 min02BREEAM In-Use: Assessing Operational Performance
BREEAM In-Use is the scheme for existing, occupied buildings. Unlike New Construction, it assesses how a building actually performs in operation, not how it was designed.
303 words, about 2 min03BREEAM Refurbishment and Fit Out: Scope and Boundaries
BREEAM Refurbishment and Fit Out (RFO) assesses projects that alter existing buildings - refurbishment, fit-out, or a combination. Its defining feature is the scope boundary : not every part of a building is in scope, only the works being undertaken and the areas affected.
302 words, about 2 min04BREEAM Infrastructure: Civil Engineering and Public Realm
BREEAM Infrastructure (formerly CEEQUAL) assesses civil engineering, infrastructure, and public realm projects - roads, rail, utilities, flood defences, and landscape works. It differs fundamentally from building schemes: the 'asset' is often linear, distributed, or landscape-scale, and impacts are judged against the surrounding environment and communities rather than a single building envelope.
292 words, about 1 min05BREEAM Communities: Masterplanning and Neighbourhood Scale
BREEAM Communities operates at the neighbourhood and masterplan scale, not the building scale. It is used to plan and assess sustainable communities at the earliest planning stages, before individual buildings are designed.
310 words, about 2 min