Ensuring buildings are sustainably designed, creating environmentally responsible and resource-efficient communities.
Optimising Sustainable Design with BESS
Built Environment Sustainability Scorecard (BESS) helps builders and developers in the planning permit stage achieve sustainable design outcomes for communities, contributing to the creation of more environmentally responsible and resource-efficient buildings.
What is BESS?
The Built Environment Sustainability Scorecard (BESS) is a tool used to assess and improve the sustainability performance of buildings and developments. It offers a comprehensive framework for evaluating various environmental impacts and sustainability practices throughout the building lifecycle. BESS assesses criteria such as energy efficiency, water usage, indoor environmental quality, and materials sustainability.
Why do I need a BESS?
By scoring different aspects of a project, BESS helps to pinpoint areas for improvement, inform design and construction decisions, and encourage best practices in sustainability. With the BESS tool, our experts can assess factors like water efficiency and thermal comfort to suggest ways to improve a building's sustainability performance. Using energy, thermal, daylight, and glare simulations further allows us to rationalise designs to achieve compliance while maximising the natural lighting and window area in a dwelling.
MEET OUR EXPERTS
Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanical, Diploma in Professional Engineering Practice, Certificate IV, NatHERS Assessment, NatHERS Accredited
Bachelor of Renewable Energy Engineering (Honours) (Class 2), Graduate Certificate, Business, WELL Accredited Professional, Green Star Accredited Professional
