A guide to the BREEAM assessment of the Transpennine Route Upgrade Programme (TRU)
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What is BREEAM?
BREEAM is the world’s leading
sustainability assessment method for
masterplanning projects, infrastructure
and buildings. It recognises and reflects the
value in higher performing assets across
the built environment lifecycle, from new
construction to in-use and refurbishment.
BREEAM is the key mechanism for
measuring overall sustainability
performance of Transpennine Route
Upgrade (TRU) against the themes
and objectives set out in the TRU
Sustainability Strategy.
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Why we are using
BREEAM on the
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We’ve chosen BREEAM because it demonstrates an industry leading commitment to sustainability, and provides a set of single, measurable and comparable sustainability
Key Performance Indicators for
the TRU – it helps us to deliver a strategic and integrated approach across a complex project.
Having BREEAM as a key tool of the TRU provides assurance to our key stakeholders and helps us to achieve our goals of delivering a legacy of a more sustainable railway.
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BREEAM infrastructure
overview
There is a maximum of
168 BREEAM credits available,
grouped into 13 categories.
Credits are achieved through the provision of
robust evidence to demonstrate compliance with
the BREEAM assessment criteria, as defined in
the BREEAM Infrastructure Technical Standard.
There are two main assessment stages:
1. Strategic Stage
2. Project Detail Stage
The project Detail Stage is then split further into:
1. Interim (Design Stage) Assessment (optional)
2. Final (Post Construction) Stage
BREEAM also has 13 credit
categories, each carrying
a weighting:
| Category | Weighting |
|---|---|
| Integrated | 8.5% |
| Resilience | 10% |
| Stakeholders | 8.5% |
| Local wellbeing | 11% |
| Transport | 9% |
| Land use | 8% |
| Landscape | 6% |
| Pollution | 8% |
| Materials | 11% |
| Carbon | 13% |
| Waste | 4% |
| Water | 3% |
| Innovation | 10% |
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BREEAM infrastructure
overview
Scoring system
+ Certified Final (Post Construction)
Stage Project Detail score
= The Final BREEAM score (%)
| Outstanding | >85 |
| Excellent | >70 |
| Very good | >55 |
| Good | >45 |
| Pass | >30 |
| Unclassified | <30 |
Certified Strategic Stage score
The final rating level is based on
meeting the following scores:
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How BREEAM
supports the TRU
Sustainability
Strategy
BREEAM is the key mechanism for measuring overall sustainability performance of TRU, against the themes and objectives set out in the TRU Sustainability Strategy.
| Theme | Emerging indicators | |
|---|---|---|
| Deliver social value | • Equality, diversity and inclusion • Keeping communities safe • Accessibility • Community engagement |
• Number of STEM ambassadors trained • Number of diversity and inclusive design reviews |
| Promote Economic growth |
• Skills, talent and job creation • Being a responsible employer |
• Level of SME engagement • Number of apprentices • Level of local employment |
| Ensure environmental resilience |
• Resource and carbon efficiency • Minimise environmental and climate change impacts • Sustainable procurement • Enhance biodiversity |
• Total carbon equivalent emissions • Biodiversity units • Percentage reused and recycled materials |
Measurement
and assurance
through BREEAM
Infrastructure
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Benefits of
BREEAM
Through using BREEAM on the TRU we are demonstrating a leading commitment to sustainability. BREEAM also ultimately enhances the quality of our constructed, operational assets across the TRU.
In addition, BREEAM enables us to:
- Deliver a legacy of a more sustainable railway
- Provides assurance to key stakeholders
- Ensure a strategic and integrated approach to how we measure success against the TRU Sustainability Strategy
- Provides a single, measurable and comparable sustainability KPI
- Drives sustainability performance beyond ‘business as usual’
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TRU BREEAM
requirement
The TRU will target the BREEAM rating of ‘excellent’, and this has been reflected in the requirements process. This is also key as TRU is the only Network Rail programme in the BREEAM infrastructure pilot.
The TRU BREEAM Execution Plan includes:
- Overview of benefits and costs
- PMO and Alliance responsibilities
- Detailed requirements for achieving the target ‘excellent’ rating
- Cost mitigation and value management strategies
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BREEAM activity timeline
GRIP 3
- Review detail of BREEAM target credit
- Integrate BREEAM Stratigic Stage requirements into GRIP 4 cost plan
GRIP 4
- Review design using BREEAM checklists
- Complete Strategic Stage BREEAM studies/reports
- Engage with supply chain
- Complete BREEAM value review Integrate BREEAM
into Target cost for GRIP 5–8 - Complete Strategic Stage BREEAM Assessment
GRIP 5
- Appoint Project Detail Stage BREEAM Assessor
- Integrate BREEAM into Detailed design
- Complete Interim Project Detail Stage BREEAM Assessment
GRIP 6–8
- Sustainable construction site management
- Sustainable supply chain management
- Complete Final (Post Construction) Project
Detail Stage Assessment
BREEAM Milestone 1:
Strategic Stage
Certificate
BREEAM Milestone 2:
Project Detail Stage (Interim) Certificate
BREEAM Milestone 3:
Project Detail Stage (Final) Certificate
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Structure of BREEAM on TRU
As the TRU is such a large, multi-asset programme, the BREEAM assessment has been split into a series of smaller, stand-alone assessments – this is based on the ‘packages’ of work within the TRU programme.
Each individual BREEAM assessment will generate a BREEAM score and rating, as demonstrated in the following example – at the end of the TRU programme, the BREEAM scores for each package will be amalgamated to generate an overall TRU BREEAM score and rating.
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Structure of BREEAM on TRU
1. Strategic Stage Assessment
- At area ‘package’ level
- Reports and strategies prepared by Alliance
- Formal BREEAM assessment by PMO
- Strategic stage score (%) and certificate issued by BRE Global Ltd
2. Project Detail Stage INTERIM Assessment
- At ‘SPO’ (intervention) level
- Based on detailed design and specification
- All evidence and formal BREEAM assessment provided by Alliance
- Project Detail Stage INTERIM score (%), rating and certificate issued by BRE Global Ltd
3. Project Detail Stage FINAL Assessment
- As for interim assessment, but evidence and assessment based on
final ‘as constructed’ works - Project Detail Stage FINAL score (%), rating and certificate issued by
BRE Global Ltd
4. Final Score and Rating Calculation
- Final score for each package is calculated from the Strategic Stage Score, added to weighted average of Project Detail Final Assessment scores
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Structure of BREEAM on TRU
East of Leeds Package 1
Strategic Stage Assessment
SPO 24
Interim Assessment
Final Assessment
SPO 5.11
Interim Assessment
Final Assessment
East of Leeds Package 1 FINAL BREEAM score (%), rating and certificate
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TRU BREEAM target credit summary
BREEAM provides a framework of target credits that we will work towards for TRU – in order to reach our target BREEAM rating of ‘excellent’.
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Strategic stage credits (GRIP 3 and 4)
| Sustainability Best Practice | TRU BREEAM Target Credits |
|---|---|
| Sustainability objectives and targets | ID 01 Option appraisal and objectives ST 04 Owner operator requirements |
| Sustainability Champion, sustainable design and construction management | ID 02 Project team collaboration |
| Component Level Whole life costing | ID 05 Whole life costing |
| Risk assessment, resilience planning and Future-proofing | Res 02 Risk assessment and mitigation Res 03 Designing for future needs |
| Flood risk and resilience | Res 04 Surface water run-off |
| Asset durability | Res 05 Durability |
| Stakeholder consultation and engagement | ST 02 Consultation and engagement |
| Delivering local social and economic benefits and legacy | LW 01 Economic impact LW 02 Social impact |
| Minimising local transport impacts | Tra 01 Transport impact assessment Tra 02 Travel and logistics plan Tra 03 Transport connectivity |
| Efficient use of land | LUE 01 Land use and value |
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Strategic stage credits (GRIP 3 and 4)
| Sustainability Best Practice | TRU BREEAM Target Credits |
|---|---|
| Biodiversity net gain | LUE 04 Ecological impact assessment and action plan LUE 05 Protection of biodiversity LUE 06 Enhancement of biodiversity – Ecologist recommendations |
| Minimising visual impact | LSH 01 Landscape and visual impact |
| Protecting heritage | LSH 02 Heritage assets |
| Minimising noise and vibration during operation | Pol 03 Noise and vibration |
| Minimising light pollution during operation | Pol 04 Light pollution |
| Carbon footprinting, reduction of embodied carbon, reduction of energy and carbon emissions during operation | Mat 01 Environmental life cycle impacts LUE 07 Land use changes CE 01 Carbon and energy strategy CE 03 Operational carbon and energy |
| Efficient use of materials and design for deconstruction | Mat 03 Materials efficiency |
| Design for water efficiency during operation | Wat 01 Water efficiency planning and implementation |
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Project detail stage credits (GRIP 5) project management and design
| Sustainability Best Practice | TRU BREEAM Target Credits |
|---|---|
| Sustainability objectives and targets | ID 01 Option appraisal and objectives ST 04 Owner operator requirements |
| Sustainability Champion, sustainable design and construction management | ID 02 Project team collaboration |
| Component Level Whole life costing | ID 05 Whole life costing |
| Risk assessment and asset resilience | Res 02 Risk assessment and mitigation |
| Future-proofing | Res 03 Designing for future needs |
| Flood risk and resilience | Res 04 Surface water run-off |
| Asset durability | Res 05 Durability |
| Stakeholder consultation and engagement | ST 02 Consultation and engagement |
| Delivering local social and economic benefits and legacy | LW 01 Economic impact LW 02 Social impact |
| Minimising local transport impacts | Tra 01 Transport impact assessment Tra 02 Travel and logistics plan Tra 03 Transport connectivity |
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Project detail stage credits (GRIP 5) project management and design
| Sustainability Best Practice | TRU BREEAM Target Credits |
|---|---|
| Efficient use of land | LUE 01 Land use and value |
| Biodiversity net gain | LUE 04 Ecological impact assessment and action plan LUE 05 Protection of biodiversity LUE 06 Enhancement of biodiversity – Ecologist recommendations |
| Minimising visual impact | LSH 01 Landscape and visual impact |
| Protecting heritage | LSH 02 Heritage assets |
| Minimising noise and vibration during operation | Pol 03 Noise and vibration |
| Minimising light pollution during operation | Pol 04 Light pollution |
| Minimising light pollution during operation | Pol 04 Light pollution |
| Carbon footprinting, reduction of embodied carbon, reduction of energy and carbon emissions during operation |
Mat 01 Environmental life cycle impacts LUE 07 Land use changes CE 01 Carbon and energy strategy CE 03 Operational carbon and energy |
| Efficient use of materials and design for deconstruction | Mat 03 Materials efficiency |
| Design for water efficiency during operation | Wat 01 Water efficiency planning and implementation |
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Project detail stage credits (GRIP 6) construction, commissioning and handback
| Sustainability Best Practice | TRU BREEAM Target Credits |
|---|---|
| Commissioning, testing, handover, aftercare and evaluation | ID 03 Handover and aftercare |
| Workforce welfare plan, ISO14001, Considerate Constructors Scheme, site and compound environmental management and responsible fleet vehicles | ST 03 Responsible construction practices |
| Travel and logistics plan (Construction) | Tra 02 Travel and logistics plan |
| Efficient use of temporary land | LUE 01 Land use and value |
| Soil and vegetation management | LUE 02 Soil and vegetation management |
| Contaminated land assessment and remediation | LUE 03 Remediation of land contamination |
| Protection of biodiversity (construction) | LUE 05 Protection of biodiversity |
| Minimising air pollution (construction) | Pol 01 Air quality |
| Minimising water pollution (construction) | Pol 02 Water pollution |
| Minimising noise & vibration (construction) | Pol 03 Noise and vibration |
| Minimising light pollution (construction) | Pol 04 Light pollution |
| Ensuring all materials are legally sourced | Mat 02 Responsible sourcing of materials: Prerequisite – Legal sourcing |
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Project detail stage credits (GRIP 6) construction, commissioning and handback
| Sustainability Best Practice | TRU BREEAM Target Credits |
|---|---|
| Responsible sourcing of materials | Mat 02 Responsible sourcing of materials |
| Pre-demolition audit, beneficial re-use and recycling of materials, recycled aggregates |
Mat 04 Reuse and recycling |
| Minimising construction energy use | CE 02 Construction site carbon and energy |
| Reducing construction waste, maximise landfill diversion rate | Wst 01 Construction waste management: Prerequisite – Resource management plan |
| Minimising construction water use | Wat 01 Water efficiency planning and implementation Wat 02 Water monitoring |
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