Redevco Turkey has been awarded a BREEAM Certificate, with a rating of 'Very Good', for the Erzurum Shopping Center project, prior to its opening in the third quarter of 2009.
Redevco Turkey has been awarded a BREEAM Certificate, with a rating of 'Very Good', for the Erzurum Shopping Center project, prior to its opening in the third quarter of 2009.
In a statement, Redevco said the certificate demonstrated that the shopping centre meets very strict requirements for green design, and 'goes beyond national legislation'.
The Erzurum project, like all of Redevco's developments in Turkey, served as a pilot project for the development of the BREEAM Europe Retail scheme. This international standard for green buildings was developed in association with members of the International Council of Shopping Centers Sustainability Working Group and the Building Research Establishment (BRE). BREEAM (BRE's Environmental Assessment Method) is the world's longest-established and most widely used environmental assessment method for buildings.
Once Erzurum has been opened, the shopping centre will also apply for a BREEAM in Use certificate, to ensure that the environmental performance of the building is continuously improved, a key principle of Redevco's environmental policy.
Jaap Gillis, COO at Redevco, adds, 'Rather than developing a variety of different standards, we as an international company prefer to encourage all emerging Green Building Councils to adopt BREEAM as the standard for Green Buildings.'
