29 March 2012
Capita Symonds has been named as ‘Assessor Company of the
Year’ and Capita Symonds’ Joanne Thetford has been named as one the
‘Assessors of the Year’ at the BREEAM Awards 2012.
The Capita Symonds-designed prison Living Unit
at HMP Thameside was also a winner in the ‘Prisons’ category
becoming the first prison building to achieve a BREEAM
‘Outstanding' rating.
BREEAM (BRE Environmental Assessment Method)
is the world's foremost design and assessment method for
sustainable buildings, with over 200,000 buildings certified and
over a million registered for certification since it was first
launched in 1990.
The awards, which were announced at the
Ecobuild conference this week, also feature the buildings that have
received the highest scoring building assessments certified under
BREEAM.
There were a number of ‘firsts' among this
year's winners, including:
- the first healthcare building in the UK to
achieve a BREEAM ‘Outstanding' rating - Houghton Primary Care
Centre.
- the first building in the City of London to
be certified under BREEAM In-Use - One Silk Street occupied by law
firm Linklaters LLP.
- the first prison building to achieve BREEAM
‘Outstanding' - the Living Unit at Thameside prison (formally known
as Belmarsh West).
- the first retail building to achieve
‘Outstanding' - Waitrose Stratford City branch.
The full list of winners is:
- Assessors of the Year: Barny
Evans, Joanne Thetford (Capita Symonds) and Duncan Wren
- Assessor Company of the
Year: Capita Symonds
- Prisons: Thameside Prison
Living Unit
- Bespoke: Dogs Trust
Shrewsbury Rehoming Centre
- Data Centres: British
Geological Survey Data Centre, near Nottingham
- Education: Ashmount Primary
School and Bowlers Nursery, Crouch Hill Park
- Further
Education: SusCon, North West Kent College
- Higher
Education: Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary
Arts
- Fire Stations: Harold Hill
Fire Station
- Healthcare: Houghton Primary
Care Centre
-
Industrial: Foresterhill Energy Centre, NHS
Grampian
- International: Tour Majunga,
Paris
- In-Use Part 1: Oude
Houtlei 140, Gent
- In-Use Part 2: One Silk
Street, City of London
- Multi-Residential: The
Green, University of Bradford
- Offices: Green
Incubator, South Shields
- Retail: Waitrose Stratford
City
“This is a testament to the outstanding skill and determination
of the building owners, developers, project teams and assessors who
are setting new standards in sustainability, despite the difficult
economic conditions,” says Carol Atkinson, Chief Executive of BRE
Global, which develops and manages BREEAM. “We believe that one of
the reasons for their commitment is that more and more clients and
project teams are now equating high BREEAM ratings with better
building performance.”
For further information on BREEAM
visit www.breeam.org.