About NABERS for retail
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About NABERS for retail
NABERS can provide an accurate, comparable
measure of your shopping centre’s performance to improve industry and public
understanding of its environmental impact.
NABERS can
be used to measure a shopping centre’s operational energy and water efficiency,
on a scale from 1 to 5 stars, with 2.5 stars representing market median
performance. A 5 star rating demonstrates market leading performance, while a 1
star rating means the building is performing well below median market practice
and has considerable scope for improvement.
The National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS) is a Government initiative to
measure and compare the environmental performance of buildings, such as
offices, hotels and shopping centres against their market. The goal of NABERS is to encourage innovation
and market best practice to improve
sustainability in the built environment.
NABERS is a Government initiative with strong industry support. NABERS ratings
for Shopping Centres were developed with the assistance of the retail property industry. It is managed nationally by the NSW
Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water (DECCW) on behalf of Federal,
state and territory governments.
NABERS is the only environmental rating tool that provides a reliable
benchmark of the actual environmental performance of a shopping centre compared to other Australian shopping centres.
NABERS ratings for offices
have been established for 10 years, and most owners, managers and occupants of
office buildings use NABERS as a central pillar of their sustainability agenda
to understand, improve and communicate their environmental performance. Now
shopping centre owners can also use NABERS to measure and manage performance.