Six aspects of social value that already BREEAM can support through the application of the standard BREEAM ES urbanism

• María Paz Sangiao ^[1] ; Mara Rodríguez Hermida ^[1]
  1. [1] ITG- BREEAM ES, Technology Center of Galicia
• Localización: EESAP14 International Conference 2023, 4-5 October, Donostia – San Sebastián. Proceedings book, 2023, ISBN 978-84-1319-603-9, págs. 52-63
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Climate emergency and recent global events have drawn a spotlight on the deep-rooted inequalities that still exist in all communities and societies around the world. How the places are planned, built, maintained and operated have direct impacts on the health and wellbeing of people, the strength of local communities, the economic growth and the planet. Cities need social sustainability, because are crucial for the development and maintenance of social connections and happiness, in a climate change era. Social Sustainability has become the centre point of the debate nowadays. This paper focus on how the methodology BREEAM ES Urbanism should proactively encourage positive social impacts through the creation of a “social infrastructure” that provides universal and equal access, dignity and fair treatment to people in addition to addressing and mitigating environmental impacts, and creating communities for equity and resilience. The objective of this paper is identified those manual´s Assessment Issues that already are guarantee of addressing social aspects if applying BREEAM ES Urbanism Methodology. The approach is based on the analysis of the manual itself, and the previous work made by the Social Impact Core Technical Team (CTT) of BRE. This working group was created in 2019 and it has identified six aspects of social value to improve the social impact and value outcomes delivered by the BREEAM standards. These six keys “themes/aspects” of social value are: 1. Health and wellbeing & security of the community; 2. Inclusivity, equitability & accessibility; 3. Stakeholder participation & engagement;4. Behavior change & awareness raising; 5. Responsible leadership & business ethics and 6. Protecting & enhancing local cultural & heritage aspects. We first evaluate these 6 themes into the methodology, addressing a mapping of the scheme. To do that, we elaborate a scheme mapping to go through those specific issues of the methodology BREEAM ES Urbanism that are most relevant to support these six aspects of social impact and value from the built environment. As conclusion, we can say that BREEAM ES Urbanism methodology already has a 72% of Social Impact credits, which means that this scheme is the most aligned with social infrastructure and social value of all the BREEAM family.