Waste reduction final report -4 - Test Input

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BREEAM is the world's foremost environmental assessment method and rating system for
buildings, with 200,000 buildings with certified BREEAM assessment ratings and over a
million registered for assessment since it was first launched in 1990.
BREEAM sets the standard for best practice in sustainable building design, construction and
operation and has become one of the most comprehensive and widely recognised measures of
a building's environmental performance. The measures used represent a broad range of
categories and criteria from energy to ecology. They include aspects related to energy and
water use, the internal environment (health and well-being), pollution, transport, materials,
waste, ecology and management processes.
The data obtained from SMARTWaste projects has been used to develop waste reduction
credits in BREEAM. In the latest version (2011), up to three credits are available when nonhazardous
construction waste (excluding demolition and excavation waste) meets or exceeds
the following resource efficiency benchmarks:
Amount of waste generated per 100m2 (gross internal
BREEAM credits floor area)
m3
tonnes
One credit ≤13.3 ≤11.1
Two credits ≤7.5 ≤6.5
Three credits ≤3.4 ≤3.2
Exemplary Level ≤1.6 ≤1.9
Only one credit is available for diversion of waste from landfill, thus reflecting waste
reduction as having the higher priority.
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