BREEAM is a widely-used environmental assessment tool for buildings. BREEAM provides metrics for measuring a building’s performance on a variety of environmental factors including sustainable design, energy conservation, indoor environment quality, natural resource conservation and minimizing waste. BREEAM also incorporates consultants and trainings to facilitate environmentally sustainable design and construction of new buildings.
Introduced by BRE (Building Research Establishment) of the UK, this rating tool is considered a comparable alternative to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), and is utilized by many of the world’s Green Building Councils as a template for their sustainable building rubrics.
“Bio-“ is Greek for life.Bio-based material refers to a product's main constituent consisting of a substance, or substances, originally derived from living organisms. These sub...
Able to break down and blend back in with the earth, given the right conditions and presence of microorganisms, fungi or bacteria. Ideally, but not always, no toxins are left behin...
Biodiversity, a contraction of “biological diversity” was a term coined in 1985 and refers to the variety of all life on Earth and all its interactions. It comprises several levels...