Green Star FAQs

Under the Multiple Building Single Rating Support Document: Guidance for Green Star Buildings Projects document, projects approved for the Multiple Building Single Rating (MBSR) approach are required to provide a separate Energy Use calculator for each building in Excel format where the Energy Use - Reference Building Pathway is used. For more information, please refer to the Multiple Building Single Rating...

Calculators can be accessed by filtering for calculators in the Resources Portal. Users can then upload the completed calculators into the project submission via the Green Star Online Submission Portal. To access the Green Star Online Submission Portal, users will need to have a registered Green Star project or a demo project to access Green Star Online (for guidance, see the...

Gross Floor Area (GFA) The Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (AIQS) definition from the Australian Cost Management Manual - Volume 1 for GFA applies with car parking (including undercover car parking) areas to be excluded for the purposes of Green Star unless specifically noted otherwise in the credit requirements. GFA is defined as the sum of Fully Enclosed Covered Area (FECA)...

Yes. Projects may demonstrate compliance for DX Split Systems under the Heating and Cooling of Sole Occupancy Units criteria from the Energy Use - Residential Pathway by demonstrating the following: A minimum 3.5 Star ZERL Cooling Star rating (average zone) A minimum 3 Star ZERL Heating star rating (average zone)

Yes, a building is considered to have all of its electricity considered as renewables if the sum of all renewable energy generated on-site and off-site is equal to, or greater than, the total electricity use of the building annually. Where the quantity of renewable energy generated by on-site renewables is greater than the total electricity use of the building annually, there...