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Invitation for Expressions of Interest in the Wetlands Protection and Ecological Restoration Group

The Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) invites members and stakeholders with an interest and expertise in wetlands and ecological restoration to submit expressions of interest in joining a group to discuss the future of this area within Green Star. To begin with, the group will form a panel to consider wetlands issues, but this will be widened out to examine many other ecology and biodiversity topics later in the year.

The purpose of the initial meeting, at the end of July 2008, is to discuss and determine compliance criteria for the protection and restoration of wetlands under the Green Star rating system. The current Conditional Requirement relating to wetlands has been debated in several of the Technical Working Groups, and new information is being examined to determine how this might develop with rating tools.

For further information see the Invitation for Expressions of Interest.

Feedback - Established email accounts

Continuous improvement of Green Star rating tools relies on user feedback. Consequently, in April 2008 the GBCA is actively seeking user insight into the suite of office tools: Green Star - Office Design v3, Green Star - Office As Built v3, and Green Star - Office Interiors v1.1.

If you are familiar with the above tools, and wish to provide feedback, your constructive input is greatly encouraged through written submissions to the following purposefully established email accounts:

Green Star - Office Interiors interiors@gbca.org.au
Green Star - Office v3 version3@gbca.org.au

Please note that this correspondence will not be checked by customer service staff, so please continue to direct all project-specific questions to your GBCA Case Manager or to greenstar@gbca.org.au, quoting your Green Star Project Number (GS-000X).

Read more about the Stakeholder Feedback Process.

Stakeholder Feedback Report Released

As part of the Green Building Council of Australia's Stakeholder Feedback Process, the proposed summary of changes between Green Star - Office v2 and Green Star - Office v3 were made available for public review and comment between of 1 May and 1 June 2007. The Report outlining the outcomes of the Public Review of the new generation of Green Star - Office is now available.

Download the Outcomes of Public Review of the New Generation of Green Star - Office (v3) March 2008

Read more about the Stakeholder Feedback Reports.

Questions? Contact greenstar@gbca.org.au