Manchester and London among winners of 2017 BREEAM Award

BRE announces the winners of its BREEAM Awards 2017, demonstrating world-leading sustainability.

The winners of this year’s BREEAM Awards has been announced, with London and Manchester taking awards based on the world’s leading sustainability rating scheme, at the London Marriott Hotel in Grosvenor Square.

The awards, which was covered by writer and broadcaster Michael Portillo, recognised the best certified buildings in 2016, with the winners including the innovatively sustainable buildings in the UK, and countries across the world.

Among the winners was 80-100 Victoria Street, London, for the highest scoring BREEAM Outside fit-out project in the UK, Kings Place, London and Tribe Apartments, Manchester.

Also receiving awards on the night were energy consultant Sweco UK, which was announced as BREEAM Assessor Company of the Year with individual Assessor of the Year awards given to: Dan McLellan, WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff, Herve Moal, ARP-Astrance and James Warne, Boom Collective.

Ross Brudenell of Southampton Solent University and Matthew Theloke of Waterford Institute of Technology were the recipients of the new BREEAM New Talent Award which recognises the most successful students in the BREEAM Accredited Graduate (AG) course.

Gavin Dunn, Director of BRE’s Building Performance Group, said: “These varied and inspirational projects have all embraced sustainability in a different way and demonstrate the value that the use of BREEAM brings.

“The winning projects have gone beyond typical practice in design and construction, refurbishment or management and are fantastic examples of the enduring benefits of sustainable construction schemes. Congratulations to all winners and all those shortlisted.”

BREEAM is an internationally recognised measure of sustainability for buildings and communities, with more than 53,000 certificates issued under BREEAM and more than 24,000 projects around the world.

High achieving BREEAM assessors were also recognised, with BREEAM this year partnering with GRESB to recognise socially responsible investment.

The awards cover a variety of sectors including residential, retail, industrial, education and healthcare as well as project types such as new build, refurbishment and in-use.

Over 2.2 million buildings and communities are registered for certification and BREEA is used in more than 70 countries.

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