Sustainability rating schemes can help projects reap benefits

For a small cost a sustainability rating scheme can help construction and infrastructure projects deliver not only better environmental outcomes but also better social and economic outcomes.

Sustainability rating schemes such as CEEQUAL and BREEAM are sometimes seen as a great cost burden for construction or infrastructure projects but the reality is that the cost works out to be less 0.5% of the total cost of a project for smaller-scale projects and significantly less for larger projects.

Chris Broadbent, Managing Director at CEEQUAL Ltd and Director, BREEAM Infrastructure commented: “There is a cost but there is also a gain. And the gain, we would argue – if properly managed, can be greater than the cost.”

A rating scheme allows projects the chance to use the scheme to gain an understanding and manage a whole range of sustainability and environmental impacts that are relevant to the project to achieve the best overall outcome.

“It helps them to use that as a framework to manage all of those impacts to deliver a better project. And through all that there is a process of learning about sustainability, of applying it effectively, innovating to get better outcomes and at the end having a really good result to show to the world by way of an independently verified award certificate”.

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