How Many BREEAM Buildings Are There in Ireland? 173 In Use

What the list is, and what it isn't

BREEAM In-Use is an asset-management certification applied to buildings already standing and operating, often decades after completion. It is not a design award. The assessor named against each row is a sustainability consultancy, not the architect. New Construction, Refurbishment and Development Planning are separate sections of the same database and are not included here.

1. 182 exported rows are 171 certificates. Nine certificates appear twice with two different scores — almost certainly the two parts of a V6 assessment, asset performance and management performance, flattened on export. The pairs: 2 Central Plaza, Conrad Hotel Dublin, Mahon Point, Kildare Village, PM Technology Building, Staycity Dublin, The Point Liffey, The Point Tolka, The Shelbourne. That takes 182 rows to 173 distinct certificate numbers.
2. Two assets hold overlapping certificate versions. BIU00014015 appears at -1.1 and -2.0 (One Spencer Dock), and BIU00017722 at -1.0 and -2.0, listed under two slightly different names — Cheevers & Halliday, and Cheevers Court & Haliday House. In both cases the earlier version expires within months of the later one being issued. Collapsing them gives 171 distinct certificates, which is the figure we use throughout.
3. The building count is lower still, and cannot be pinned down exactly. Clancy Quay Phase 2 appears under three separate certificate numbers with identical names, and the search results alone cannot say whether those are three blocks or one asset certified three times. We report certificates rather than buildings for that reason.
4. Where a certificate is listed twice, we have taken the higher of the two scores for banding purposes. This is a choice, not a rule: Part 1 and Part 2 measure different things, and neither is a summary of the other. Any individual figure should be checked against its certificate page before quoting.
5. Score and band don't always agree. Barnhall Meadows Phase 2 is a Pass at 58.9%; Belgard Retail Park is a Good at 45.2%. Most likely the same Part 1 / Part 2 split, with the exported score belonging to one part and the rating to the other.

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To satisfy your curiosity, we took a deep dive into the search tool available on the BREEAM website. We enjoyed it so much that you can also look forward to similar articles about other countries.

We found that as of August 2026 there are 171 current BREEAM In-Use certificates in Ireland. The database exports 182 rows, but nine certificates are listed twice and two assets hold overlapping versions — so 182 is not the number of buildings, and neither, quite, is 171.

Be sure to check what this list is and what it isn't.

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Every exported row: 182 rows, 171 certificates

Ranked Outstanding to Acceptable. Certificate numbers omit the shared BIU000 prefix. The full export is reproduced here rather than deduplicated, so that every certificate number can be traced back to source — which means nine certificates appear on two rows and two assets appear under two versions. The band counts below filter these rows, not the 171 certificates; for the certificate-level distribution see the chart above.

The table itself is unchanged — all 182 rows stay, and the row indices in the case studies above (01 / 182, 182 / 182 and so on) remain correct against it.

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Row counts, not certificate counts — these filter the 182 exported rows below. For the 171-certificate distribution, see the chart near the top of this article.

The single word rows on the first chip does most of the work: it tells the reader, at the moment they meet the numbers, that these count something different from the chart. Keep the counts as they are — they must match the table they filter.

If your build won't take the word, the fallback is to leave the chips untouched and place the grey note directly beneath them. What should not happen is chips reading Pass 20 sitting on the same page as a chart reading Pass 15 with nothing between them to explain why.