27.10.2015r.
BREEAM Excellent for the Marshall Town Hall building complex !
On 27.10.2015. BRE (Building Research Establishment), based in London, after evaluating the report on the multi-criteria environmental assessment of the project of the buildings of the Marshal’s City Hall in Krakow, issued a BREEAM Interim EXCELLENT certificate. The project ultimately received 73.3% of the points, resulting in an Excellent rating.
We are delighted to have received such a high environmental rating – especially since the Marshal’s City Hall building complex we designed will be the first public building in Poland (the seat of local government) to be certified.
At the time of receiving the certificate, it is also one of only two buildings in Poland to be assessed at the BREEAM Excellent certification level according to the new, stricter criteria of BREEAM International New Construction 2013.
The project was awarded a BREEAM Excellent certificate thanks to, among other things, the use of advanced installation solutions (including tri-generation as a source of heat, cooling and electricity, a digital DALI lighting control system based on LED sources), full control of the building’s operation integrated within the BMS, as well as a number of innovative architectural solutions, which helped to achieve a high rating in the so-called “soft” categories (lighting, acoustics, materials and landscaping).
An analysis of the certification carried out shows that the building will not only be energy efficient, but above all friendly to its users and visitors.
Such a high environmental standard of the new UMWM headquarters, according to the investor’s assumptions, is to reflect the innovation and emphasis placed on ecology in the Malopolska Region.
From our point of view, as designers, the most important information is the news that the BREEAM Excellent level has been achieved without any major changes to the competition design prepared by Horizone Studio in October 2013. This means that from the very beginning of the conceptual work, our assumptions regarding energy efficiency, environmental performance and the logic of the solutions were correct.
On 02.06.2015, several months of work on the preparation of the BREEAM multi-criteria environmental assessment report for the project of the building complex of the Marshal’s Office of the Małopolska Region in Krakow was completed. The finished report was sent to BRE in London (the certification body) for verification.
The project received a score of 74.48% in the report, giving it a BREEAM Excellent certificate.
The author of the report is Grontmij, hired by the developer as an independent firm to conduct the certification process.
The green building consultant working on behalf of the developer is Visio Architects&Consultants. The high score was also made possible by advanced installation solutions and analysis prepared by installation designers from CEGroup and TWE Electric.
The detailed report with a score of 74.48% for BREEAM certification now sent to BRE, was prepared on the basis of a detailed analysis of the solutions included in the construction project. Compared to the preliminary analysis based on the conceptual design in December 2014. (73.10%), the assessment of the designed building has increased.
The building will first receive a BREEAM Interim certificate on the basis of the design, to be followed by a final certificate upon completion
Like most buildings with a Very Good or Excellent score, the project received points for, among other things, good location, high quality of finishing materials in the common parts of the buildings, BMS, etc.
Above-standard solutions used in the project of the Marshal’s City Hall in Krakow, which are scored in BREEAM and which allowed the project to obtain the BREEAM Excellet level include:
BREEAM is a pro-environmental multi-criteria building assessment system. The name BREEAM stands for Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Methodology. Certification according to the British BREEAM system is, along with the American LEED system and the German DGNB system, one of the three main international environmental certifications used in Europe and the world.
The organization that manages the BREEAM system is BRE Global, based in London. The system has been in existence since 1990. To date, more than 250,000 buildings in the UK and around the world have been certified.
The BREEAM system consists of 10 main categories, within which there are dozens of subcategories. The main categories are:
BREEAM certification is usually carried out in two stages: first, the building is evaluated at the Design Stage, resulting in the so-called “BREEAM Interim Certificate”, and then at the Post-Construction Stage, after which a Final BREEAM Certificate is obtained.
Buildings can obtain one of 5 levels of environmental quality: “Pass”, “Good”, “Very Good”, “Excellent” and “Outstanding”.
