The National Australian Built Environment Rating Scheme (NABERS) is a performance-based rating system administered by the NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water that measures an existing building's overall environmental performance during operation.
The ratings are based on a building's operational performance on a scale of 0 to 5, with 0 star having the poorest performance and 5 stars being world leading best practice.
The most common rating application, NABERS Office Energy, assesses the building's operational performance based on actual building data, energy use, hours of operation, net lettable area (NLA), climate and number of computers in the building.
The NABERS suite of ratings now includes:
- NABERS Office Energy (previously ABGR)
- NABERS Office Water
- NABERS Office Waste
- NABERS Office Indoor Environment
- NABERS Shopping Centres Energy
- NABERS Shopping Centres Water
- NABERS Hotels Energy
- NABERS Hotels Water
- NABERS Homes Energy
- NABERS Homes Water
EP&T has a team of Accredited Assessors with extensive experience in delivering building ratings and can deliver all NABERS rating types. We currently undertake approximately 30% of NABERS Office Energy ratings nationwide.
The Australian government has recently made it mandatory to disclose a building's NABERS rating in certain circumstances, including the sale, lease and sublease of an office building or office space within a building.
View further information on this requirement and EP&T's mandatory disclosure services here.
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