BRE and CEEQUAL have announced plans to bring together two successful schemes – BREEAM and CEEQUAL – to create a single, science-based sustainability standard and certification tool for civil engineering and infrastructure projects in the UK and worldwide.
CEEQUAL has already transferred its business operations to BRE Global, and CEEQUAL will now be delivered by the BREEAM certification team, with continued support from the CEEQUAL scheme management team. The move is supported by the Institution of Civil Engineers and, the two organisations say, ‘has been prompted by the industry’s desire for a single sustainability rating scheme that addresses the challenges that infrastructure clients, professions, and contractors, currently face in delivering more sustainable and resilient infrastructure’. The new scheme will also address the need for integration with building- related schemes so clients with mixed developments can have a single combined rating for their asset.
BRE chief executive, Peter Bonfield, said: “Our long-term aspiration with a single scheme is to bring together the significant experience and expertise behind the two rating systems to deliver enhanced environmental and social benefits for civil engineering works and better economic outcomes that benefit society, and broaden uptake in the UK and international markets.’
Over the next two years BRE will, with the involvement of the current CEEQUAL and BREEAM delivery teams, ‘combine the best elements and features of both approaches into a new and improved holistic scheme for industry that combines CEEQUAL’s team and process-focused approach with BREEAM’s more asset-based scientific methodology’.
