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BRE, BREEAM and Open Data

www.bre.co.uk

Stuart ChalmersDigital Products Strategy ManagerBuilding Research Establishment

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Why is data important to BRE?

Why is data important to BRE?

• Reduce capital cost and the carbon burden from the construction and operation of the built environment by 20%.

• Collaborative BIM (with all project and asset information, documentation and data being electronic) on projects over 5m by 2016.

What is BIM?

What data does BRE produce?

• 250,000 Certified Buildings• 40 million m2 floor area certified• 1500+ BREEAM Assessors• 450+ BREEAM Accredited

Professionals• 50+ countries worldwide

What data does BRE produce?

• BREEAM New Construction• BREEAM International New

Construction• BREEAM In-Use• BREEAM Refurbishment• BREEAM Communities• Code for Sustainable Homes• BREEAM Infrastructure (coming 2014)

What data does BRE produce?

• Management• Health and Wellbeing• Energy• Transport• Materials• Waste• Water• Land Use and Ecology• Pollution and Innovation

What are we doing?

• BREEAM New Construction 2014• Collect assessment data as

reusable digital content• Providing (partial) access to that

data via open API• Release programme for historical

data for other schemes

• “BRE Data Lab” – coming soon

Stuart Chalmerswww.bre.co.uk

chalmerss@bre.co.uk

@BREWatford@stu73