In addition to LEED, the new Planon 2009.A release also supports Europe’s most accepted building assessment method BREEAM. A measure to describe a buildings environmental performance. Developed by the Building Research Institute in the UK, the BREEAM standard is available for new, existing, and different types of buildings like offices, schools, hospitals and industrial assets. By adopting BREEAM in its solution portfolio, Planon supports organisations in several ways to improve their sustainable footprint.
During a BREEAM assessment
Organisations need to provide evidence whether they meet criteria. Planon keeps track of a lot of relevant data and information that helps Corporate Real Estate organisations to deliver this evidence fast like maintenance plans, controlling cycles, monitoring results, metrics like numbers/m²/distances/occupancy, procedures, documentations, historical data, energy usage etc. This information eases and speeds up the BREEAM certification process, and also supports in achieving the best assessment level.
After a BREEAM assessment
The results and credit points are stored in the Planon database. This allows organisations to make cross portfolio analyses to identify, execute, and analyse new green opportunities in it’s real estate, and apply to criteria as required by regulations.
With this solid input, Planon supports the objective to demonstrate progress towards corporate environmental objectives and finally supports corporate cost reduction goals in combination with a reduced environmental footprint.
