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Appendix C – BREEAM UK New Construction scope and Multi-residential buildings

BREEAM UK New Construction 2014 can be used to assess multi-occupancy residential buildings that are not suitable for assessment under the Code for Sustainable Homes (CSH) in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, or under EcoHomes in Scotland. The UK New Construction scheme provides a whole building assessment methodology which can also be applied to buildings which contain dwellings assessed under the CSH, but also communal facilities within the same building, to allow assessment of the whole building.

BREEAM UK New Construction 2014 can be used to assess the following types of multi-residential buildings:

Student halls of residence
Key worker accommodation
Care homes that do not contain extensive or specialist medical facilities (limited consulting rooms and medical rooms are acceptable)
Sheltered housing
Other multi-residential buildings which contain a mix of residential accommodation with communal areas such as some military accommodation.

BREEAM Multi-residential and the Code for Sustainable Homes

BREEAM New Construction for non domestic buildings provides a whole building assessment methodology which can also be applied to a building containing self-contained dwellings and communal facilities.

Where both a Code for Sustainable Homes and a BREEAM assessment are required, to avoid duplication of effort, evidence collected for the purpose of a CSH assessment can be used toward demonstrating compliance with the equivalent BREEAM assessment criteria and vice versa.