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Sustainability and Resource Recovery of Waste Handling Services in Commercial Office Environments
Published in Hossain Md Anawar, Vladimir Strezov, Abhilash, Sustainable and Economic Waste Management, 2019
Tao Kan, Vladimir Strezov, Suraj Opatokun, James Carlile, Hossain Md Anawar
Green Star is administered by the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) and it aims to rate ‘the design, construction and operation of sustainable buildings, fitouts and communities’ (Green Building Council of Australia, 2017). The typical types assessed by GBCA are office buildings, retail centres and apartments. Green Star evaluates a series of environmental indices, e.g., energy, water, waste management, transport and indoor environment quality against certain criteria and awards up to six stars to the assessed targets (The NSW Environment Protection Authority, 2012). To date, more than 1400 projects have been assessed and rated by Green Star system. Compared to NABERS, which measures the ongoing performance of buildings, Green Star focuses on the design of the fit out.
Sustainable design and construction assessment tools
Published in Oluwaseun Dosumu, Clinton Aigbavboa, Sustainable Design and Construction in Africa, 2018
Oluwaseun Dosumu, Clinton Aigbavboa
The Green Star assessment tool was developed by the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) in 2003 to assess and certify construction projects for sustainability. It was designed for construction projects such as office designs, office as-built buildings, existing office buildings, office interiors, shopping centres, health centres and education, and so on. The categories of the Green Star for office design, office as-built and office interiors are depicted in Table 6.3. The Green Star was adapted by the Green Building Council of South Africa (GBCSA) in 2007 to certify construction projects for sustainability practice. South Africa, one of the first African countries to practice Green Building certification, has since encouraged many other countries (for example, Rwanda and Namibia) in Africa to adopt the Green Star rating system for construction projects. Countries associated with South Africa in the adoption of Green Star are Botswana, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania and Tunisia. Countries such as Cameroon, DR Congo, Gabon, Côte D’Ivoire, Rwanda, Senegal, Sudan and Zambia, among others, are showing an interest in adopting the Green Star. Nigeria and Kenya are developing local content to be added to the Green Star SA. Currently, Green Star SA has certified up to 200 construction projects in the past 10 years of sustainability practice.
Survey of energy-related occupant perceptions in a green-rated and in a non-rated building
Published in Advances in Building Energy Research, 2022
Laura M. M. C. E. Almeida, Vivian W. Y. Tam, Khoa N. Le, Zhiyu Huang, Samuel Forbes
To address problems related to energy, several energy and environmental rating systems were created throughout the years. The green building (GB) concept firstly appeared around 1990. It embodies the continuous enhancement in the built environment, where ‘today’s best practices become tomorrow’s standard practices’ (USGBC, n.d.). This concept includes the planning, design, construction, operations, and end of life of buildings and aims to create environmental, social, and economical communities. Therefore, critical thinking and a life cycle approach are fundamental, accounting for all stages, not only of buildings, but, more holistically, of products, processes, and services. Nowadays, several rating systems are available to certify a building as green. The first sustainability design tool, that is, the Building Research Establishment's Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) was created in the 1990s in the United Kingdom (UK). Ten years later, the United States (US) followed the UK’s steps regarding sustainability and created the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system. In Australia, the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) established the Green Star rating tool for buildings and communities in 2003 (GBCA, 2015; Vierra, 2016).
Sustainability and wood constructions: a review of green building rating systems and life-cycle assessment methods from a South African and developing world perspective
Published in Advances in Building Energy Research, 2021
Philip L. Crafford, C. Brand Wessels, Melanie Blumentritt
The Green Building Council of South Africa developed Green Star SA in 2008, based on the Green Building Council of Australia’s Green Star rating system, BREAAM and LEED and customized their rating systems for South Africa (GBCSA, 2014b). The Green Star SA rating systems provide an independent assessment of a building’s green status. Different systems (also called ‘tools’ in this case) exist to address different building types and building stages such as offices, retail centres, multi-unit residential and public buildings. The tools consist of nine environmental categories: Management, Indoor Environmental Quality, Energy, Transport, Water, Materials, Land Use and Ecology, Emissions and finally Innovation. Similar to BREEAM and LEED, different categories are weighted in terms of credits. Points are awarded based on credits across all categories and an overall star rating is determined. Green Star SA rating systems use a zero to six star rating scheme of which a 6 star rating equals the best possible rating or green building leadership (GBCSA, 2014b).