Code for Sustainable Homes Services

REEGEN is an accredited Code for Sustainable Homes assessor. We offer a comprehensive assessment service, working with clients from the intial concept and design stage to develop the right specification to meet a project's Code requirements. We work with local authorities, housing associations, developers and house builders to help them achieve their code ratings and demonstrate their commitments to sustainability and building regulations.

Our service includes:

• Initial pre assesment and specification development
• Planning application calculation and report
• Design team credit strategy workshop
• Ongoing support and interim certification
• Post construction review leading to certification

The Code for Sustainable Homes is often a funding or planning requirement, but in providing this service REEGEN can also aid clients with:

• Market recognition for low environmental impact buildings
• Assurance that best environmental practice is incorporated into the design and construction of a dwelling
• Inspiration to find innovative solutions that minimise environmental impact
• A benchmark that is higher than regulation
• A tool to help reduce running costs and improve working environments
• A standard that demonstrates progress towards corporate and organisational environmental objectives

Please contact us by phone or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to discuss your project requirements.  You can download our helpful guide to Code for Sustainable Homes mandatory credits here.

'I would like to take this opportunity to thank REEGEN for the help and assistance they've given not only to myself, but to WRE Construction Ltd, during the last projects we've completed for Pembrokeshire Housing Association including a level four pilot scheme. I found the team to be extremely helpful and approachable and it is apparant that they have a wealth of knowledge regarding the Code for Sustainable Homes. We're currently in the process of constructing further schemes for Cymdeithas Tai Cantref and, again, REEGEN are the Code for Sustainable Homes assessors for these projects which makes life a great deal easier for us as the contractor. Hopefully, we will continue to work along side REEGEN in the near future and on many schemes to come.'  Mr. Ceri Jenkins, WRE Construction Ltd

The Code for Sustainable Homes is a national standard developed by the Buildings Research Establishment (BRE) to improve the overall sustainability of new homes by setting a single framework within which the home building industry can design and construct homes to higher environmental standards. Where it is used, the code also gives new home buyers information about the environmental impact of their new home and its potential running costs and offers developer and builders a tool with which to differentiate themselves in sustainability terms.

The Code measures the sustainability of a home against nine design categories, rating the 'whole home' as a complete package from the design stage, through to development completion. The design categories are:

• Energy and CO2 emissions
• Water
• Materials
• Surface water run off
• Waste
• Pollution
• Health and well being
• Management
• Ecology