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Anyone BREEAM qualified / employed? If so, how did you go about it?
We had a look at it here as an additional service, the only training courses I found are run by (surprise, surprise) the BRE. For us it seemed expensive as you need to site the exam for each building type (c.£1200 for the first and £800 for each following qualification), you would need to do it for a good portion of each week to get the return.
I also have doubts about how long BREEAM is going to be around in it's current form - it's a pretty basic tool that misses some really big items (like embodied carbon!), it's all about building use. The American/International LEED system is much better but I'm not sure whether it's going to be adopted here - there is supposed to be an updated BREEAM in the works.
Not sure how useful that is, this area of the market is definitely going to grow but I think the current standards are going to become obsolete pretty quickly.
I believe that Stroma also do courses, although maybe this is just for the Code. I think the course are more crammed than the BRE ones and therefore cheaper but more intense.
http://www.stroma.com/
I also think/hope that they are sorting out the Green Guide so that the methodology is more accountable, so that things like embodied energy are clearer, and they will hopefully give more credit rating accordingly.