Green Star ratings are available for every building type, so whether your building is a school or a shopping centre, a hospital or a hotel, it can achieve a Green Star rating.
Green Star assesses and rates buildings, fitouts, and communities against a range of environmental impact categories. Green Star rating tools for individual building and fitout design, construction and operations assess projects for:
- • Management Indoor
- • Environment
- • Quality
- • Energy Transport
- • Water Materials Land Use and Ecology
- • Emissions
- • Innovation
The Green Star rating system assesses the sustainability of projects at all stages of the built environment lifecycle.
A Green Star – Design, As Built, Interiors and Communities projects can achieve a Green Star certification of 4 – 6 Star Green Star. Buildings assessed using the Green Star – Performance rating tool can achieve a Green Star rating from 1 – 6 Star Green Star.
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Certifying your building for sustainable design and construction using Green Star rating tools has a huge positive impact in many regards.
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A Green Star rating provides independent verification that a building or community project is sustainable. Undertaking voluntary Green Star certification demonstrates leadership, innovation, environmental stewardship and social responsibility as well as many other benefits.
Benefits of Achieving a Green Star Rating:
Green Star Buildings benefit from reduced energy costs resulting in saving money.
Research conducted has found that on average:
- • Green Star-certified buildings produce 62% fewer greenhouse gas emissions than average Australian buildings
- • On average, Green Star-certified buildings use 66% less electricity than average Australian buildings
- • Green Star-certified buildings save the equivalent of 76,000 average households’ electricity use annually.
- • Green Star-certified buildings save enough potable water to fill 1,320 Olympic swimming pools every year – over 3,300,000 kL per annum – which is 51% less potable water than if they had been built to meet minimum industry requirements.
- *Findings from GBCA
Green Star Buildings also create a healthier place for people to work or live resulting in attracting more tenants, while also minimising their environmental footprint and contributing to building a sustainable future for everyone.
When you can achieve high environmental ratings you also reduce exposure to commercial risk and asset obsolescence by future proofing assets and investments.