Sustainability

The design brief requirements for the Senedd were set to ensure that the building met and exceeded the Assembly’s constitutional requirements for sustainable development and current good practice.

In terms of environmental performance, the Senedd achieved an “Excellent” certification, the highest ever awarded in Wales)under the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM), as required within the design brief.

The design brief also required the following sustainable criteria to be met:

• design life of 100 years;
• use of indigenous materials;
• minimise energy consumption and waste;
• application of renewable technologies; and
• to be “exemplar” in terms of sustainability.