Training and Events

Green Star NZ Accredited Professional Training

We offer a multi-level Green Star NZ Accreditation training program to suit a wide audience of people. Green Star NZ Accredited Professional training is useful for anyone interested in Green Building and looking to be a part of the Green Star NZ Certification process.

All Green Star NZ Accredited Professionals to the industry through a directory on this website, and receive a Green Star Accredited Professional newsletter keeping them informed of changes and updates to Green Star.
 

GSNZAP Training

Cost Per Half-day Course:

$235 inc GST NZGBC Members
$355 inc GST Non Members
$180 inc GST Students**

Level 1: Half-day

Course outline:

To develop an understanding of Green Star NZ and how it can be effectively implemented in your Green Star NZ projects; what a green building is, how the Green Star NZ rating tool system works, which buildings can be rated with this system, what other tools are in development, how the point and weightings work within the tool and an overview of what is involved in the certification process.

Who attends:

A diverse range of professions - academics, architects, contractors/builders, cost planners, engineers, facilities managers, general managers, interior designers, landscape architects, marketing managers, policy advisers, product manufacturers, project managers, quantity surveyors and solicitors who want to understand Green Star NZ but may not become an Accredited Professional.

Pre-requisite:

None.

Information:

Course Material including a Green Star NZ Technical Manual will be provided. The manual is available on completion of Level 2 training.

All courses have a CBD location, details provided upon registration.

Please note: we can only accept a maximum of five (5) registrations per organisation for each course.

NZIA registered architects receive 15 CPD points for attendance at Level 1 training, and 20 CPD points for attendance at Level 2 training courses.

Click here to read more about in-house training for your team/s if you wish to train a group of people.

** Two places are reserved for students at each training course. Student ID must be supplied.

Level 2: Half-day

To become a Green Star NZ Accredited Professional, you will need to attend this course and sit the exam. The level 2 course will go into another level of detail looking at the certification process, your role as a GSNZAP, and will provide you with the opportunity to become familiar with a Green Star excel tool and Technical Manual.

Following the Level 2 training you will be able to sit the exam to become and Accredited Professional. Please note that the cost of the exam is not included in the price of the course - please click here for further details about the AP exam.

Who attends:

Course participants are a diverse range of professionals who aim to become Green Star NZ Accredited Professionals.

Why attend:

Whilst the reasons for attending vary, most people come in order to develop their understanding of how they can effectively implement, manufacture to, or request Green Star NZ standards. Those who become Green Star NZ Accredited Professionals are highly sought-after for their knowledge of Green Star NZ in this rapidly growing market. If a project team includes an Accredited Professional, the project will receive two points towards its Green Star NZ rating.

Pre-requisite:

Level 1 course or Green Building Council of Australia or South Africa AP course completion.

Are you an Accredited Professional in Australia or South Africa?

NZGBC currently allows active GSAPs from Australia to sit our NZGBC Green Star exam without doing the NZ training. Processes within NZ and Australia are closely (although not exactly) aligned and the differences in the details of the Technical Manuals is clear to those familiar with using Green Star Technical Manuals from other countries.

For confirmation of your eligibility to sit the GSNZAP exam without doing the Level 1 and 2 training courses, please email office@nzgbc.org.nz with your supporting documentation.

Important: Terms & Conditions

If you are not able to attend the event you have registered for, a subsitute delegate may take your place.

Refunds or transfers to an alternative date can only be given in the event of you giving us at least 5 business days notice before the date of the event.  Course materials, venue hire, refreshments etc are paid for in advance of the event, therefore there can be no exceptions to this rule.

If you wish to cancel your registration a full refund, minus a $50 administrative fee, will be given provided you have notified us in writing (by email, letter or fax) at least 5 working days before the start of the event. If less than five business days’ notice of cancellation or transference is given then we regret that a refund cannot be given.  Refunds will not be given in any other circumstances except as required by law.

The NZGBC reserves the right to cancel any event if minimum numbers are not reached. Similarly, the NZGBC reserves the right to change the venue of an event.