Green Star
Green Star assesses the sustainable design, construction and operation of buildings, fitouts and communities.
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Read about our Green Star-rated projects – insights into the innovative ways we're building for the future.
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The GBCA is involved in a range of different initiatives to benefit industry.
Innovation Challenges
Innovation Challenges
Innovation Challenges are designed to encourage and direct investment in solutions that address a wide range of social, economic and environmental sustainability issues. Some Innovation Challenges will take the form of new credits, while others will simply identify sustainability issues that additional research and innovation will help to address.
What's New in Innovation Challenges
Based on the rapid uptake of Innovation Challenges to-date and feedback received from project teams, a review has seen the retirement of some Innovation Challenges and others have been absorbed into updated versions of the Rating Tools.
Key changes include:
- In 2018, the GBCA retired the Innovation Challenge Handbook. Guidance around Compliance and Documentation requirements has been included in the Submission Guidelines, the below table has Fact Sheets for individual Innovation Challenges.
- Individual Submission Templates are available for the Innovation Challenges for the ease of Project Teams putting together documentation for Submissions.
Ready to take on an Innovation Challenge?
The following table provides an overview of all Innovation Challenges and how they apply to all rating tools.
Some Innovation Challenges have additional resources these are included in the table below.
*Please refer to the Innovation Challenge Fact Sheet and Submission Guidelines, some Innovation Challenges are no longer eligible in updated rating tools.
Submission Template
The 'Innovation Challenges Submission Template' must be completed in order to make an Innovation Challenge claim. Please see the ‘How Documentation is Described in the Submission Guidelines’ section within the Introduction for further guidance on Documentation Requirements for project submissions.
Stats on Innovation Challenges
If you're curious to understand how Innovation Challenges are being used by project teams since their release, take a look at the Innovation Challenges summary report.
Claiming Innovation Challenges in Legacy Projects
If you have a question about any of these Innovation Challenges or Innovation generally, contact us by submitting a Technical Question.
Do you want to propose a new Innovation Challenge for everyone to use? Contact us by submitting an Innovation Challenge Proposal.