Green Star New Zealand

The Good Submission Guide

The NZGBC is currently working on developing a Good Submission Guide. This Guide aims to equip Green Star NZ Accredited Professional's (GSNZAPs) with a deeper understanding of the Certification Process and provide tools that will aid in the collation of first class submissions.

The first installments of this Guide are: The Submission Guidelines and Materials Calculator Template Examples which are now available to download.

In addition, we now have Credit Coversheet Templates for Accredited Professionals to use for Education Design 2009 submissions with Templates for other tools coming soon.  Scroll down for more information about these useful documents.

We look forward to bringing you new installments and information to aid in your good submissions soon.

Good Submission Guide Contents

• Submission Guidelines
• Certification Process Guidelines
• Materials Calculator Template Examples
• Pre-Submission Checklist

Green Star NZ Coversheet Templates

The first set of Credit Coversheet Templates are now available for Green Star NZ Accredited Professionals (GSNZAPs) to use in preparing Green Star project submissions for Education Design 2009 certification.

1. Green Star NZ Education Design 2009 Credit Coversheet Templates
2. Green Star NZ Credit Coversheet Template User Guide

These templates will:

1. Reduce the time and cost associated with compiling submissions as GSNZAPs can utilise these rather than create their own coversheets.
   
2. Act as an interactive checklist to inform GSNZAPs when the documentation requirements for each Credit are met. This should also increase round one assessment scores.
3. Integrate the short reports required within the Technical Manuals into the Credit Coversheet Templates in the form of text boxes or tables. This reduces the need for the creation of additional documents and where tables are included they provide explicit guidance as to what information is required.
4. Expedite the assessment process for the NZGBC through consistent submission formatting.

NZGBC has conducted extensive testing of these templates prior to release but concede that there may still be some errors within them. Therefore please provide your feedback by emailing us at greenstarnz@nzgbc.org.nz.

All project teams currently working on submissions are encouraged to use these templates however their use is not mandatory if the project is already registered. For projects that register after the 9th of June 2010 under the Education Design 2009 tool the use of these templates will be mandatory.

Please note that these Credit Coversheet Templates do not replace the Education 2009 Technical Manual in any way. Project teams are to always refer to the Education 2009 Technical Manual when compiling their project submissions as these templates merely summarise the requirements of the Education 2009 Technical Manual.

NZGBC looks forward to annoucing Credit Coversheet Templates for Office 2009 and Industrial 2009 certification as these become available.

NZGBC would like to thank all of those people within the industry who contributed to the release of these Credit Coversheet Templates.

Example Green Star Submission

In July 2009 The GreenHouse, The Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) Head Office, achieved a 5 Star Green Star - Office Interiors v1.1 certified rating under the GBCA's Office Interiors rating tool. The GBCA subsequently put the entire submission on their website to demonstrate the type and amount of documentation required when targeting an Office Interior rating.

It is highly recommended that all project teams targeting a certified Green Star rating view this submission before beginning to compile their own.

Click here to learn more about the project and submission process

The NZGBC would like to thank the GBCA for putting their full Office Interiors submission on line and therefore accelerating the up-skilling of the building industry in this regard".