BREEAM and compliance assessments for mixed-use residential and commercial scheme at retirement village
The design and construction of a Solihull ExtraCare retirement village achieved a BREEAM assessment ‘Very Good’ rating, thanks to Accredited Professional services offered by Darren Evans. The assessment offered unique challenges, which were met as a result of working on the scheme from pre-assessment all the way to post-construction review.
The project, delivered for the ExtraCare Charitable Trust by Vistry Partnerships West Midlands, also benefited from thermal modelling and compliance calculations. Value engineering of the building fabric specification ensured that performance targets were met alongside the BREEAM assessment rating, without over-specifying.
H2 – Ensuing Part L compliance on a challenging mixed use scheme
Vistry Partnerships had to deliver a retirement village on an atypical site featuring a variety of constraints which included:
- Achieving BREEAM assessment ‘Very Good’ rating, despite commonly achieved credits being unavailable
- Limitations on building fabric specification to meet Building Regulations
- Concerns about potential condensation risk in floor junction detail
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