Mainer Associates are proud to assist our clients in achieving Design Stage certifications for BREEAM Outstanding – the highest rating a building can achieve within a BREEAM Assessment. We help our clients to consistently realise their targets; in this article, therefore, we present three projects whereby our involvement has helped our clients’ aspirations to become a reality.

Over the past year, the UK has seen two key updates to BREEAM as well as Government review on Net Zero. For individuals working in sustainability for the built environment, these updates are important to consider when completing a BREEAM Assessment.

Sky high energy bills have left energy prices at the forefront of household’s minds. The war in Ukraine, and the effect of lockdown lifting, has resulted in the rising wholesale cost of energy – causing many offices to lose vast sums of money. Is your office building one of these?

2023 is looking to become a pivotal year for how society views the progression and expectations of sustainable real-state and property. Whilst emphasis has been upon driving buildings to become net zero and carbon neutral, there is now a clear demand for health and wellbeing to be considered just as importantly.

Mainer Associates are proud to share the successful Fitwel accreditation of 11 & 12 Wellington Place in Leeds, which has achieved a 2-star Fitwel rating, in addition to being on track to successfully deliver a 2-star Fitwel accreditation for NOMA, 4 Angel Square, in Manchester.

As a Sustainability Consultancy, our role is to reduce the environmental impact of the construction industry. We do this every day for our clients - but we must not forget about our own impact. Mainer have been using Earthly to report and offset our carbon produced. Keep reading to learn how it was done...

Reducing global carbon emissions will take a multitude of clever ideas. With 2023 nearly upon us we have asked the Mainer family for Sustainability Stories that give positive solutions which we can take into the New Year.

COP26 tried to secure global net zero and keep a maximum of 1.5 C degrees of warming within reach. With COP27 finishing last week, was it able to maintain these goals and implement new ones or has climate change ideals sunk beneath the surface?

COP27 is currently underway in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt where a group of 198 countries that have signed the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. If it were a country, concretes CO2 emissions would make it the World’s 3rd largest. Joe examines why concrete is so popular, the price we pay for it and what is the sustainable future of concrete?

Small Islands around the UK have the opportunity to be pioneers for a net zero transition. With easy access to the strong winds and tidal energy that surrounds our Isles, they have the ability to create community focused transitions that create lasting action and change. What lessons can they teach us?

Humanity is using nature 1.8 times faster than our planet’s biocapacity can regenerate. Using resources equivalent to 1.8 Earths, is clearly not sustainable, so can a Circular Economy save our World?

The World Green Building Council’s has set out it’s ambitious ‘Whole Life Carbon Vison’ mission to reduce embodied emissions by 40% by 2030, and to achieve net zero embodied carbon and operational carbon in all buildings by 2050. Whole Life Cycle Assessment will be integral to hitting these targets, so lets look at how the process works

11 & 12 Wellington Place have been awarded a two-star Fitwel score in recognition of the commitment it has made to designing buildings which are both good for the environment and for the health of our community.

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.

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?

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?

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?

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.

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…