NABERS UK
Australia’s most exciting export since Kylie, the NABERS initiative developed by the government of Australia to measure and compare the environmental performance of Australian buildings and tenancies has since developed into a global tool aimed at rating commercial buildings to measure greenhouse gas emissions, energy efficiency, water efficiency, waste efficiency and indoor environmental quality.
The attraction of the NABERS rating system is that it is based upon actual consumption data for the building (such as electricity and gas bills) collected by network of Accredited Assessors along with parametric building data about a number of other aspects of the building such as its size, hours of occupation, climate location and density of occupation.
This data is then input into the NABERS rating calculator which statistically adjusts for these factors so that the building can have its consumption fairly benchmarked against its peers. The result of this calculation is a star rating on a six-star scale, where zero is very poor performance and six is market-leading.
NABERS was recently introduced to the UK market, which is operated and overseen by BRE under the operational standard NABERS UK which Carbon.Climate.Certified are currently championing on a number of UK based commercial assets for large investment portfolio managers. Our NABERS qualified team are available to answer any questions or queries on this rapidly growing movement in commercial property.
