Buildings have a significant impact on the environment, consuming 32% of the world's resources, including 12% of its water and up to 40% of its energy. Buildings also produce 40% of waste going to landfill and 40% of air emissions.

Background

Green Star is a comprehensive, national, voluntary environmental rating system. It evaluates the environmental design, performance and construction of buildings based on a number of criteria, including energy, water efficiency, indoor environment quality and resource conservation. With 11 per cent of Australia's CBD commercial office buildings Green Star certified, building green is now a business imperative.

The property industry is well placed to deliver significant long-term environmental improvements using a broad range of measures. Although a strong business case can be made for their implementation, there are barriers within the property industry that often prevent efficiency measures from being adopted.

Green star accreditation scheme was created to in order to address some of these barriers. Its objective is to promote sustainable development and the transition of the property industry by promoting green building programs, technologies, design practices and operations.

Superior Business Returns

From a feasibility standpoint there are many attractive business incentives for choosing to incorporate green star for your next project including

• Lower operating costs
  • Some buildings reported energy savings of over 70% after two years of operation!

• Greater tenant attraction
• Enhanced marketability
• Productivity benefits
• Reduced liability and risk
• A healthier place to live and work
• Demonstration of Corporate Social Responsibility
• Future proofed assets
• Competitive advantage
  • By building green, you can differentiate your project in an increasingly crowded marketplace

Services

We utilise our proven building services industry experience and practical approach to provide customer satisfaction at very competitive pricing and to great detail guaranteed

PSE Green Solutions professional green star accreditation and extensive building services engineering background means ESD solutions will be smoothly integrated into design development documentation with meaningful results and capital cost considerations.

PSE adopts a practical policy of ESD implementation by ensuring a seamless transition of design/development submissions to as built submissions. This administration of successful integration will ensure construction is transparent with initial ESD design intent.

PSE Green Solutions is able to produce relevant and practical outcomes for our clients by undertaking thorough and accurate investigations in the following facets of ESD Solutions.

• Management
• Indoor Environment Quality
• Energy
• Transport
• Water
• Materials
• Land Use and Ecology
• Emissions

Implementation

We will also ensure the above categories are implemented well after handover through the use of

• Commissioning Clauses
• Building tuning liabilities
• Building User Guides
• Environment Management Schemes

Extensive Engineering Resources

PSE Green Solutions has extensive engineering resources including.

• Energy Rating Software
• Engineering Software
• Green star PILOT calculation software for building design facets such as
  • Indoor Environment Quality Control
  • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
  • Site Mass Transport Green star Compliances
  • Potable Water Consumption
  • Emissions Calculators