Green Star Ratings.

Green Star ratings for existing buildings.

Achieve leading Green Star ratings for your commercial building and prove your organisation’s commitment to energy efficiency and carbon reductions.

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Why Green Star?

Investors, customers, boards and governments are demanding greater energy efficiency and reduced carbon emissions from both new and existing buildings. Without a clear and complete overview of your building’s current performance, meeting these demands meaningfully is challenging at best and impossible at worst.

Green Star offers one of New Zealand’s most holistic and thorough assessments, offering an objective and independent report on your building’s performance across multiple metrics, helping you to meaningfully measure and manage sustainability.

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What is Green Star?

Green Star is a complete assessment tool used to accurately measure, understand and communicate the performance of your commercial building across a broad range of measures, identifying possible areas for cost savings, carbon reductions, and future improvements.

The New Zealand Green Building Council (NZGBC) provides the Green Star rating, from 0 to 6 stars, for a wide range of commercial buildings including retailers, offices, hospitals, schools, and more. This rating follows a period of assessment, provided by expert consultants, including ESP.

Types of Green Star ratings.

There are 4 types of Green Star ratings, suitable for different occupants and businesses.

Green Star – Performance.

Green Star – Performance assesses the operational performance of all types of existing buildings across nine holistic impact categories, providing a single, simple and comprehensive rating for any existing commercial building.

Green Star – Design & As Built.

Design and As Built guides the sustainable design and construction of new commercial builds or major refurbishments.

Green Star – Interiors.

Green Star – Interiors provides ratings for updates and fitouts for any type of commercial interior; offices hotels, schools or retail space.

Green Star – Communities.

Green Star – Communities is design to transform neighbourhoods into green, prosperous spaces. This rating guides building and urban design at a neighbourhood, precinct, or community scale.

Why ESP?

We make Green Star simple.

To achieve efficient and cost effective results, a range of services and technology are required to measure, monitor and achieve and sustain quality Green Star ratings. ESP’s integrated service offering and extensive experience allows us to deliver more effective energy and environmental results.

You have a vision. We have a way to get you there.

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You have a vision. We have a way to get you there.

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