BREEAM Wiki content suggestions
Below are a list of suggested topics from existing stakeholders. Please add to it or better still begin the article.
[edit] Picking a topic to contribute to
- Ask yourself what informational need do you have? If you have it, it is likely that others will too, an article could help.
- What information do you constantly have to educate people about?
- What information, if available would enable something important to happen?
- What tips would you pass on?
[edit] Not sure how to cover every angle of a topic?
- Just create the article and fill in the areas you can.
- Provide other headings in the article and write ‘awaiting content’, other people may be able to fill in the gaps.
[edit] Current suggested topics waiting to be created:
- Approach to assessment of issues
- Tips for a new BREEAM assessor
- Schedule of evidence by scheme
- Common pitfalls relating to BREEAM assessments
- Best Practice for Consultation
- Evidence examples/suggestions for compliance (not prescriptive)
- Facilities Management improvements
- How to try and make BREEAM a smooth process - from planning to handover.
- Lessons Learnt - case studies including common pitfalls
- Successful projects/things to be wary of/non-conformances
- Tips on how to deal with awkward situations
- Who is responsible for what?
Featured articles and news
A must-attend event for the architecture industry.
Caroline Gumble to step down as CIOB CEO in 2025
After transformative tenure take on a leadership role within the engineering sector.
RIDDOR and the provisional statistics for 2023 / 2024
Work related deaths; over 50 percent from constructuon and 50 percent recorded as fall from height.
Solar PV company fined for health and safety failure
Work at height not properly planned and failure to take suitable steps to prevent a fall.
The term value when assessing the viability of developments
Consultation on the compulsory purchase process, compensation reforms and potential removal of hope value.
Trees are part of the history of how places have developed.
The increasing costs of repair and remediation
Highlighted by regulator of social housing, as acceleration plan continues.
Free topic guide on mould in buildings
The new TG 26/2024 published by BSRIA.
Greater control for LAs over private rental selective licensing
A brief explanation of changes with the NRLA response.
Practice costs for architectural technologists
Salary standards and working out what you’re worth.
The Health and Safety Executive at 50
And over 200 years of Operational Safety and Health.
Thermal imaging surveys a brief intro
Thermal Imaging of Buildings; a pocket guide BG 72/2017.
Internally insulating a historical building
An experimental DIY approach using mineral thermal lime plaster.
Tree species selection for green infrastructure: A guide for specifiers.
The future of the Grenfell Tower site
Principles, promises, recommendations and a decision expected in February 2025.