The buzz word is 'green'. Everybody wants to be green, build green and be rated green.
The trouble is that, at present, there is little understanding of what the practical issues are in going green and achieving a green rating. Recently, Mr Ché Wall, the Managing Director of Lincolne Scott and a founder of the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) summed up the issue when he said:
'The work now to be done in driving the shift to green buildings is no longer technical, but rather commercial and contractual and sadly, one of the biggest roadblocks is operational rating tools'
In the March and June editions of On Site, we outlined the two most commonly used tools for rating the environmental sustainability of buildings in Australia, being:
