PM David Cameron with deputy PM Nick Clegg at 10 Downing Street
Prime minister David Cameron’s residence has received a BREEAM award, after undergoing an LED makeover.
10-12 Downing Street, a 300 year-old building which houses 150 workers, had its sustainability tested under the BREEAM In-Use scheme for existing building and was recognised as having the most improvement year-on-year in its BREEAM In-Use performance.
The performance improvements that led to the sustainability award include a switch from halogen luminaires to LED for the building’s external lighting. The internal lighting adopted is a mixture of LEDs, compact fluorescent and T5 fluorescent.
A spokeswoman for 10 Downing Street told Lighting: “We’re looking to increase the use of LEDs [in the interior space]”.
BREEAM In-Use asset and building management rated the property as ‘very good’ and gave it a four-star score. Part 1 of the asset has been rated at 62.12 per cent, part two of the building management has been rated at 56.7 per cent.
10-12 Downing Street is one of 17 international buildings to receive BREEAM Awards.
BREEAM awards are made annually to the highest scoring building assessments certified under BREEAM schemes in the preceding year. Richard Hardy, managing director of BRE Global, which manages BREEAM said: “Since 1998, BREEAM has certified more than 16,000 projects, equating to over 250,000 buildings. We believe that one of the reasons for this continuing commitment to making buildings more sustainable is the growing evidence that the greater efficiency and quality associated with sustainability is also helping to make such buildings more commercially successful”.
