Green Star FAQs

Yes. For the purposes of the 'Indoor Plants' criteria under the Indoor Pollutants credit and 'Plants' criteria under the Connection to Nature credit, tertiary, non-regularly occupied areas, and certain other functional spaces do not need to include indoor plants.

Functional spaces can be considered as primary, secondary, and regularly occupied areas in the nominated area that are not accessible to the plant maintenance contractor. These are areas where security access is unavailable and the enclosed space is greater than 25m2. 

The exclusion of indoor plants in the above spaces does not reduce the overall total requirement of planting. Planting provisions are to be presented in tabular form in the submission to demonstrate how the functional areas have been included in the total planting soil area requirements for the tenancy. Project teams should submit marked-up as-built drawings showing the nominated area used for 'Indoor Plants'  and 'Plants' criteria. Any other spaces excluded due to functional reasons should be indicated on these drawings and a reason needs to be included in the submission as to why they have been excluded.

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