Green Star is a comprehensive, national, voluntary environmental rating system that evaluates the environmental design and construction of buildings. With more than 4 million square meters of Green Star-certified space around Australia, and a further 8 million square metres of Green Star-registered space, Green Star has transformed Australia’s property and construction market.
Green Star was developed for the property industry in order to: Establish a common language; Set a standard of measurement for green buildings; Promote integrated, whole-building design; Recognize environmental leadership; Identify building life-cycle impacts; and Raise awareness of green building benefits. This new rating tool will help green building leaders to activate wide-scale building reform and renewal of their existing building stock (totaling 98 per cent of all buildings in Australia).
Green Star – Performance will help building owners, operators and occupants to measure and monitor the environmental impact of their buildings and take practical action to improve their buildings’ performance.
Innovative
Green Star – Performance will:
Deliver a Green Star rating tool for the existing building market
Focus on the operation and performance of entire buildings, allowing building owners, operators and occupants to collaborate and contribute to better environmental outcomes
Establish a common language for the monitoring and maintenance of operational performance.
Inclusive
Green Star – Performance will:
Rate buildings beyond commercial office buildings, aiming to include schools, shopping centres, public buildings, industrial buildings and hospitals
Encourage best practice outcomes through building operations
Assess buildings both with and without pre-existing Green Star certification.
Holistic
Green Star – Performance will:
Focus on ongoing operational data, with minimum energy and water performance requirements likely to be introduced for each Green Star level
Maintain Green Star consistency from design, to construction, and through to operations
Address all nine Green Star categories: Management, Indoor Environment Quality, Energy, Transport, Water, Materials, Land Use & Ecology, Emissions and Innovation
Support building owners and operators to plan future upgrades and renovations with operational targets.
Easy-to-use
Green Star – Performance will:
Feature a simple and user-friendly format
Provide project certifications valid for three years, with yearly energy and water reporting requirements
Enable projects to apply for certified ratings from 1 to 6 Stars and improve building performance over time.
Complementary
Green Star – Performance will:
Deliver the green building benefits established in Green Star Design and As Built rating tools in the operational phase of a building’s life cycle
Include NABERS* Energy and Water ratings as mandatory requirements, whenever available, and when they are not, establish interim benchmarks until appropriate NABERS benchmarks become available
Introduce ‘portfolio ratings’ to allow whole building portfolios to be assessed using Green Star – Performance (buildings within a portfolio will still be required to be rated individually).
