Green Star Fitouts

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.