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08/01/2025

BREEAM Awards 2025: Celebrating Sustainable Building Excellence

The Building Research Establishment (BRE) has today announced the details for its 2025 BREEAM Awards, an annual celebration of outstanding achievements in sustainable building design, development, and management.

The awards ceremony will take place on Thursday 5th June at The Peninsula Hotel in London, bringing together industry leaders and innovators from around the world.

BREEAM, the world-leading sustainability assessment method, has been used to evaluate over 2.33 million buildings across 102 countries, with 610,000 achieving certification.

To accommodate the increasing number and diversity of sustainable building projects globally, four new categories have been introduced to this year's awards.

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This year's award categories are:

• Best New Construction, Residential Project

• Best New Construction, Commercial Project

• Best Refurbishment & Fit-Out Project

• Best BREEAM In-Use | Residential Building

• Best BREEAM In-Use | Commercial Building

• GRESB Portfolio Integration & Commitment | All Portfolios

• BREEAM Assessor Company Award

• BREEAM Lifecycle Award

• Peoples' Choice Award | Commercial Building [NEW]

• Peoples' Choice Award | Residential Building [NEW]

• BREEAM ESG Rising Star Award [NEW]

• BREEAM ESG Outstanding Achievement Award [NEW]

Industry practitioners are invited to submit nominations for projects that push the boundaries of sustainability and accelerate the transition to net zero. Nominees will be announced on 21st March.

Jane Goddard, Managing Director, Building Products and Services (BPS) and Deputy CEO of BRE said: “The BREEAM Awards are an important opportunity to recognise and celebrate projects which are driving innovations in sustainability forward.

"As the uptake of BREEAM grows, showcases like this help to inform best practice across our community and further understanding of new possibilities when pursuing our shared goals of a net zero built environment. "

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