Green Star Fitouts
Certifying the sustainable design and construction of building fitouts
The next generation of Green Star - Interiors is coming...
With a simplified framework for sustainable refurbishments, and a focus on the issues that will define the next decade of the built environment, Green Star Fitouts is intended to be an exciting new upgrade for Green Star – Interiors.
Consultation for Green Star Fitouts
- The consultation process will run from 22 November 2024 - 31 January 2025.
- Feedback will be consolidated early 2025
- Green Star Fitouts will be launched mid-2025
We’re delighted to be collaborating on Green Star Fitouts with our mates at the Green Building Council of Australia. This new version is intended to give guidance on creating sustainable, Green Star-certified fitouts.
The Green Star Fitouts rating tool will supersede the current Green Star – Interiors rating tool. If you’re not familiar with the tool, this is a fantastic opportunity to build your knowledge and better service your clients, tenants and employees.
The public consultation launches Friday 22 November 2024 and closes 31 January 2025. More information is available on GBCA’s website here.
If you'd like to find out more and get an insight into the proposals that have been published for consultation including the draft credits, you can watch the Green Star Fitouts webinar here.
Please reach out to Brad Crowley with any further enquiries | E: brad.crowley@nzgbc.org.nz | Phone: 027 314 1485
What makes a Green Star Fitout?
1. Delivers a new definition of sustainable fitouts
Green Star Fitouts will feature five new categories representing the issues that will define the next decade of the built environment.
- Circular: promotes reuse of products and materials and implementation of circular design and construction principles in fitouts.
- Responsible: recognises activities that ensure the fitout is designed, procured, built, and handed over in a responsible manner.
- Healthy: promotes actions and solutions that improve the physical and mental health of occupants.
- Positive: encourages a positive contribution to key environmental issues of carbon, water, and the impact of materials.
- People: encourages solutions that address the social health of the community.
2. Drives supply chain transformation towards circularity
Resource use is at an all-time high, and fitout churn contributes a significant amount of waste to landfill.
We need a whole new approach to designing and building fitouts, with a focus on enabling deconstruction and reuse of fitout components.
3. Creates spaces you want to be in that are good for you
We spend a lot of our time indoors. The spaces we inhabit have a direct impact on our health and wellbeing.
Green Star Fitouts seeks to eliminate negative impacts and enhance the wellbeing of occupants through:
- A connection to nature
- Clean air and quality light
- Good design that is socially inclusive
4. Exceeds Paris Climate Agreement carbon targets
To meet our Paris Climate Agreement targets, fitouts need to consider their carbon footprint.
Green Star Fitouts responds to this by:
- Being powered by renewables
- Selecting highly efficient fixtures and fittings
- Dematerialisation, material reuse and choosing products with lower upfront carbon
5. Supported by a simplified framework that is relevant to your scope
Green Star Fitouts will clearly define the minimum outcomes required for a fitout to be certified.
The rating tool will have three tiers of certification:
- 4 Star
- 5 Star
- 6 Star
To achieve a 4 Star rating certification, we propose a fitout simply needs to meet a minimum of 10 expectations.
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