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Important Information

BREEAM UK New Construction focuses on mitigating the environmental impacts and improving the performance of new builds in the UK.

This training course enables existing BREEAM Assessors to understand the BREEAM UK New Construction scheme in terms of technical content and application, allowing you to extend your skills to carry out BREEAM assessments on UK new builds.

Successfully completing this course will allow you to apply to become a BREEAM UK New Construction assessor.

After completing the course learners will be able to

Understand the BREEAM process and the context for BREEAM UK New Construction
Navigate and be confident in assessing the technical aspects of the BREEAM UK New Construction scheme
Understand the assessment process and the support in place for the scheme and assessors
Understand the certification process
Successfully carry out BREEAM assessments on new construction projects

Successfully passing this course and examination enables you to apply for your assessor’s license under the BREEAM UK New Construction scheme.

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Timeframe

Once purchased you have 12 months in which to complete your training and any subsequent exams, after this time your course content will expire

This course is only available to existing licensed BREEAM Assessors from UK BREEAM Non-Domestic schemes.

This course comprises of approximately 30 hours of own-pace online training material introducing you to the BREEAM UK New Construction scheme.

Online course material

Resources: technical manuals, guidance notes, training knowledge base compliance notes and exercise workbook with associated evidence booklet
Technical categories (management health and wellbeing, energy, transport, water, materials, waste, land use & ecology, pollution) & approved standards
Mock examination

Examination

The course programme concludes with one online examination, set at a day and time to be agreed between the learner and ProctorU, who invigilate examinations on behalf of BRE Academy. The examination must be passed for learners to be able to apply for their BREEAM assessor license.

BREEAM UK New Construction Technical examination

The exam is in an ‘open book’ format, meaning you can use any documents related to the course to aid you.

As of the 16th of July 2025, an updated version of this scheme has been launched (Version 7). Please be aware, this course content currently remains on the prior version 6.1 and will be updated in the near future.

£815.00 + VAT

per person

About BRE Academy

The BRE Academy is the leading training provider for the built environment. Most courses are developed by BRE – a science research hub with 100 years of experience in safety and sustainability. As a profit-for-purpose, all fees go towards further research to make the built environment safer and greener and to mitigate climate change.