Does the building have an environmental certificate?
The environmental certifications registered on the buildings on a property: scheme, rating, certified area and date. BREEAM-NOR on completion, BREEAM In-Use for buildings already in operation.
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- One GET call
- BREEAM-NOR and In-Use
- BRE data
- Updated monthly
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From property to environmental certificate
The call tells you whether a building has a third-party verified environmental certification, and which rating it achieved. Lenders use it for EU taxonomy assessment of loans and investments, managers for sustainability reporting across a portfolio, and tenants to check whether premises meet their own environmental requirements before a lease is signed. For a developer, the certification is often a requirement from a lender or anchor tenant before construction starts, not just a certificate obtained afterwards.
The scheme you see most often in the Norwegian market is BREEAM-NOR, awarded on completion of new builds and major refurbishments, and BREEAM In-Use for buildings already in operation. The two say different things: BREEAM-NOR documents the quality of the project itself, while BREEAM In-Use documents how the building is actually operated year by year. Each hit is tagged with which building on the property the certification applies to, the rating (for example Very Good or Excellent), the certified area in square metres and the date the certification was awarded.
In principle, a building can have several certifications registered at the same time, for example a BREEAM-NOR certification from completion and a later BREEAM In-Use renewal. The certifiedAreaM2 field shows how much of the building the certification actually covers, which is not always the whole usable floor area: a renewed in-use certification often covers only the common areas, while the original new-build certification covered the whole building.
The certification documents a snapshot at the time of certification, not the building's ongoing operational status beyond what BREEAM In-Use itself reports. See Energy performance certificates for the building's current energy rating, which is a separate and more frequently updated measure of the building's operational efficiency.
Two schemes, two different questions
BREEAM-NOR documents the quality of the project itself on completion. BREEAM In-Use documents how the building is actually operated year by year.Certified area, not the whole building
certifiedAreaM2shows how much of the building the certification actually covers, which is not always the whole usable floor area.Several certifications per building
A building can have several certifications registered at the same time, for example a new-build certification and a later in-use renewal, both in the same response.
Fields that actually tell you something
One GET call on the property gives you the environmental certifications for all the buildings on it.
/properties/{country}/{cadastreId}/certificationscurl -X GET "https://data.placepoint.no/properties/NO/0301-207-76-0-0/certifications" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"
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{
"items": [
{
"scheme": "BREEAM_NOR",
"rating": "Very Good",
"certifiedDate": "2020-09-01",
"certifiedAreaM2": 8400,
"buildingNumber": "1"
}
]
}
Each hit is tagged with which building the certification applies to and the date it was awarded.
Three steps to your first response
Log in with GitHub
One click, under a minute, no payment card. The key comes back to this page.Call the endpoint
Replace$TOKENin the curl above with your key; the call needs only the country code and the matrikkelnummer (the cadastral number).Apply the response
Use the certification in financing or sustainability reporting across the portfolio, or to check whether premises meet a tenant's environmental requirements before a contract is signed.
Data and sources
The certifications are compiled in Placepoint's environmental certifications dataset, with BRE as the scheme owner for BREEAM-NOR and BREEAM In-Use in Norway. The dataset is updated monthly, so a recently certified building can take a few weeks to appear.