
News
Amazing Community Gardens and their power to fight urbanisation
One in eight households in Britain had no access to a private or shared gardens during the lockdown, can community gardens and the benefits they provide help with the effects of urbanisation?
How Healthy is your Building?
How can you measure whether a building looks after the health and wellbeing of the people who will call it home during its lifespan? We explain the system that Mainer Associates uses and how it can help your building.
Living the BREEAM!
Three future BREEAM Assessors take their first steps…
Here at Mainer we like to throw our Graduates in at the deep end, so they had barely got their feet under the table before Dan, Alice and Chris embarked on the BREEAM Associate training course!
How easily can BREEAM help us overcome Net Zero Targets?
How can the fight against environmental pollution be solved with ‘Net Zero’ targets, and more specifically, where does the responsibility lie for BREEAM and the construction industry to contribute?
Can BREEAM 'Outstanding' increase your rental premium?
BREEAM ratings and other sustainable certifications can influence the rental value of real estate, and if they so do, how could this effect the needs and demands for future BREEAM assessments?
Reclaimed structural steel - is it propping up decarbonised buildings?
It used to be the case that organisations shied away from using reclaimed structural steel, due to a certain stigma regarding reusing anything that is integral to buildings’ structure. So what’s changed?
Outstanding! BREEAM Ratings for NOMA & Wellington Place
4 Angel Square, NOMA, and 11 & 12 Wellington Place are the first of Mainer Associates’ projects to achieve BREEAM outstanding, the highest BREEAM rating possible.
Whole Life-Cycle Carbon: the London Plan Guidance
Following on from the release of the London Plan last year, the Greater London Authority (GLA) has now released its Whole Life-Cycle (WLC) Assessments Guidance, which originally came out for consultation back in 2020. Learn more here…