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Understanding the Pathway to Net-Zero Carbon Emissions with Breana Wheeler – Ep. 56About the GuestHello and welcome to Episode #56 of the Placemaking Podcast!Can’t wait to share this next conversation with all of you. Today on the show I have Breana Wheeler, Director of Operations for BREEAM USA. Breana Wheeler became the Director of Operations - US for BRE in May 2016 with a mission to provide a credible, rigorous, science-based option for existing buildings to understand their sustainability performance, set a pathway to improvement and to certify performance where there is value in doing so. Breana organizes and oversees the daily operations of the business, including the development and maintenance of the BREEAM USA technical standards. Prior to joining BRE, Breana worked for nearly ten years as an internal advisor on environmental and sustainability risk management for large, multinational corporations and was based in London, England.BREEAM is the world’s leading sustainability assessment method for masterplanning projects, infrastructure and buildings. It recognizes and reflects the value in higher performing assets across the built environment lifecycle, from new construction to in-use and refurbishment. BREEAM does this through third party certification of the assessment of an asset’s environmental, social and economic sustainability performance, using standards developed by BRE. This means BREEAM rated developments are more sustainable environments that enhance the well-being of the people who live and work in them, help protect natural resources and make for more attractive property investments.
In this episode, we look at Breana’s top strategy for achieving net-zero carbon emissions in construction, common myths about sustainability certifications that need to be debunked, and how BREEAM is different than some of the other sustainability certifications out there currently. There is loads of great information in this episode and I greatly appreciated Breana for taking the time out of her crazy-busy schedule to discuss this topic of Understanding the Pathway to Net-Zero Carbon Emissions with me.As always, if you have enjoyed the show, please subscribe to the show and share with your friends in the industry. There will be more exciting conversations on the shows to come.So without further ado, let’s start the show!
Show Notes
Matt (00:00:02):Hey, welcome to the show, Breana,Breana (00:00:45):Thank you very much for having me.Matt (00:00:47):I'm glad to have you on the show. I've read a lot about your background and some of the main initiatives of your group and thought it'd be fun to kind of dig in a little deeper. So I guess to start off, can you give us a little bit about your background and where you started in this, in this journey, and then we'll take it from there?Breana (00:01:12):Sure. So I started actually in the sustainability field around 2007. I was looking at environmental sustainability for big corporations. I worked for a couple of design and engineering firms, very internally focused. And I was living in London. I spent 10 years in London initially, and then I moved back to the United States and started looking at real estate and sustainability very specifically in the built environment. And in 2016 I became the director of operations for each year in the USMatt (00:01:47):Well, just curious, why London?Breana (00:01:52):My partner is British, so yeah, so I moved there initially, for love as one does. So yeah, it was a great move. And actually at that time sustainability in the UK was really consolidating a proper profession. There's a lot of, there are organizations that support professional development in a really fundamental way.
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Understanding the Pathway to Net-Zero Carbon Emissions with Breana Wheeler – Ep. 56About the GuestHello and welcome to Episode #56 of the Placemaking Podcast!Can’t wait to share this next conversation with all of you. Today on the show I have Breana Wheeler, Director of Operations for BREEAM USA. Breana Wheeler became the Director of Operations - US for BRE in May 2016 with a mission to provide a credible, rigorous, science-based option for existing buildings to understand their sustainability performance, set a pathway to improvement and to certify performance where there is value in doing so. Breana organizes and oversees the daily operations of the business, including the development and maintenance of the BREEAM USA technical standards. Prior to joining BRE, Breana worked for nearly ten years as an internal advisor on environmental and sustainability risk management for large, multinational corporations and was based in London, England.BREEAM is the world’s leading sustainability assessment method for masterplanning projects, infrastructure and buildings. It recognizes and reflects the value in higher performing assets across the built environment lifecycle, from new construction to in-use and refurbishment. BREEAM does this through third party certification of the assessment of an asset’s environmental, social and economic sustainability performance, using standards developed by BRE. This means BREEAM rated developments are more sustainable environments that enhance the well-being of the people who live and work in them, help protect natural resources and make for more attractive property investments.
In this episode, we look at Breana’s top strategy for achieving net-zero carbon emissions in construction, common myths about sustainability certifications that need to be debunked, and how BREEAM is different than some of the other sustainability certifications out there currently. There is loads of great information in this episode and I greatly appreciated Breana for taking the time out of her crazy-busy schedule to discuss this topic of Understanding the Pathway to Net-Zero Carbon Emissions with me.As always, if you have enjoyed the show, please subscribe to the show and share with your friends in the industry. There will be more exciting conversations on the shows to come.So without further ado, let’s start the show!
Show Notes
Matt (00:00:02):Hey, welcome to the show, Breana,Breana (00:00:45):Thank you very much for having me.Matt (00:00:47):I'm glad to have you on the show. I've read a lot about your background and some of the main initiatives of your group and thought it'd be fun to kind of dig in a little deeper. So I guess to start off, can you give us a little bit about your background and where you started in this, in this journey, and then we'll take it from there?Breana (00:01:12):Sure. So I started actually in the sustainability field around 2007. I was looking at environmental sustainability for big corporations. I worked for a couple of design and engineering firms, very internally focused. And I was living in London. I spent 10 years in London initially, and then I moved back to the United States and started looking at real estate and sustainability very specifically in the built environment. And in 2016 I became the director of operations for each year in the USMatt (00:01:47):Well, just curious, why London?Breana (00:01:52):My partner is British, so yeah, so I moved there initially, for love as one does. So yeah, it was a great move. And actually at that time sustainability in the UK was really consolidating a proper profession. There's a lot of, there are organizations that support professional development in a really fundamental way.