GREEN BUILDING COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA
Curtin University
A decade ago , Australia ’ s cityscapes were more grey than green . But a revolution , imperceptible to those outside the property and construction industry , was underway , and from the boardroom to the drawing board to the construction site , people were already thinking about how to meet the new sustainability benchmarks set by the Green Star rating system for buildings .
In a decade , Green Star has radically transformed the footprint of our cities – and today we have more than 830 building projects
around Australia with Green Star ratings , and more every week .
Twenty three per cent of Australia ’ s CBD office space is Green Star certified . We have supported the delivery of more than 100 productive , healthy school and university buildings , 30 large-scale shopping centres , 25 industrial facilities , as well as apartments and libraries , convention centres , fire and train stations , hotels and hospitals , restaurants and retirement living villages .
The environmental benefits of this dramatic transformation of
100 April 2015