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We are the New Zealand Green Building Council.

Our vision is that New Zealanders work and live in healthy, efficient, productive and environmentally sustainable buildings, today and into the future. more ›

Training & Events

Rating Tools

HomeStar

for residential buildings

Homestar is a comprehensive, national, voluntary residential rating tool that evaluates the environmental attributes of New Zealand’s stand-alone homes in terms of energy, health and comfort, water, waste and more.

Green Star

for commercial buildings

Green Star is a comprehensive, national, voluntary environmental rating scheme that evaluates the environmental attributes and performance of New Zealand's buildings using a suite of rating tool kits developed to be applicable to each building type and function.

BASE

for Canterbury

BASE (Building a Sustainable Environment) is a simple, introductory-level green building assessment for new office, retail and mixed use buildings to help the Greater Christchurch rebuild developed by the New Zealand Green Building Council (NZGBC) in conjunction with Christchurch City Council and property industry experts. 

NABERSNZ

for office buildings

NABERSNZ™ - a scheme to measure and rate the energy performance of office buildings in New Zealand. The scheme is based on the successful National Australian Building Environmental Rating System (NABERS).