• BEAM Plus Procedures Manual (Registration & Certification) v5.5
• BEAM Plus Procedures Manual (Assessment) v8.0

BEAM Plus New Buildings (NB) projects will engage two-stage assessment process (i) Provisional Assessment (PA) and (ii) Final Assessment (FA).

BEAM Plus Existing Buildings (EB) project is only required to go through Final Assessment or both, while BEAM Plus Interiors (BI)  is only a one-stage process.

We offer two routes for application for BEAM Plus New Data Centres (NDC). Projects with Data Centre facilities can apply for Data Centres assessment alone (route 1), or to create synergy, a "1+1” application including Data Centres assessment together with New Buildings v2.0 assessment (route 2). In the latter case, the project has the benefit of obtaining two certificates (one for Data Centres and one for New Buildings) after successful assessment. To avoid the duplication of efforts and taking into account that Energy Use plays a pivotal role in the sustainability of Data Centre Buildings, only the EU aspect would be assessed for Data Centres for route 2 assessment. Scoring obtained from other aspects in the New Buildings v2.0 assessment will be transferred directly to the Data Centres assessment.

The assessment process for BEAM Plus Existing Data Centres (EDC) follows the existing practices for BEAM Plus EB assessment. The applicant can seek certification for:

• Comprehensive Scheme A (All categories in One‐step Approach)
• Comprehensive Scheme B (All categories in Step-wise Approach)
• Selective Scheme (Individual category, EU and MAN aspects are mandatory)

Eligible existing data centres can only opt for assessment under BEAM Plus Existing Data Centres.