BREMAP Help

What is BREMAP and SalvoMIE?

BREMAP is a web based geographical information system (GIS) developed by BRE and funded by Biffaward through landfill tax credits and a grant from the Institution of Civil Engineers R&D Enabling Fund.

SalvoMIE (www.salvomie.co.uk) is a web based materials information exchange (MIE) that was originally funded by the Department of Environment Transport and Regions and is now being managed by Salvo.

How do they work?

BREMAP and SalvoMIE work together to provide an interactive network of tools to help you define the best practicable environmental option (BPEO) for your waste, and can be used to enhance your waste management as a part of the SMARTWaste system. BREMAP and SalvoMIE offer various waste solutions depending on the location of your site, company, materials or products.

BREMAP and SalvoMIE provide industry with complimentary data. BREMAP provides the location, names and addresses of businesses dealing with collection, storage, haulage, reuse, reclamation, recycling, waste to energy and disposal of construction and demolition (C&D) wastes. SalvoMIE provides an advertising and trading ground for a selection of available materials. These will range from large quantities of scrap demolition timber and recycled aggregates to smaller quantities of new bricks and plasterboard off-cuts left over from a building project or shrubs and topsoil from a landscaping project.

How do I use the system?

From the search you may look for waste management facilities using the following options; postcode or county and optionally radius (.75 miles to 25 miles), company activity, product group or material recovered.

When you enter the postcode of your site, BREMAP will present you with a map representing the different services, materials and products available in your chosen area using coloured symbols. Brief details of these results can either be displayed as a table or more detailed information of a particular facility or company can be viewed by clicking on your preferred service (symbol).

This simple process has the potential to transform the management of C&D waste as it will:

Create firm relationships between the C&D Industry and local reclamations, recyclers, re-processors and disposal routes
Create markets for re-use, re-manufacturing, recycling, energy recovery and composting of materials and products
Reduce the transport of waste and associated nuisance
Increase the knowledge of available waste disposal options and materials or products available in the vicinity of your site.

Is this information already available?

A myriad of databases and industry literature already exist individually detailing landfill sites, transfer stations, incinerators, recycling sites, reclamation companies, composting facilities and manufacturer take-back schemes. BREMAP encapsulates all this information into a consistent and accessible format. Besides waste facilities, BREMAP can identify products and materials that are available. This part of the database is regularly updated to ensure the latest information on material and product availability is relayed. The service is possible due to the links between BREMAP and SalvoMIE which provide a simple way of finding users for materials arising from demolition, refurbishment, new building and DIY.

How do I include my company on BREMAP?

BREMAP has been populated with information from a range of databases, literature and journals but also from representatives of industry such as Salvo and Institution of Demolition Engineers. Approximately 9,000 companies are already registered on the website but there is capacity for more. If you wish to add your company to BREMAP, or wish to be removed, please complete the registration form (link to this here) or send an e-mail to bremap@bre.co.uk.

How much will it cost?

Currently, there is no charge for BREMAP as it is a component part of the SMARTWaste system but there is a small charge for using some of the facilities on SalvoMIE. These charges reflect the need to trade on-line and advertise the materials and products using newsletters, demolition alerts.