Discover the different methods of gaining Green Star credits using wood and wood products in the built environment. Topics of interest include chain of custody and forestry management certification schemes: indoor air quality issues for composite wood products, and easy ways of specifying and obtaining appropriate documentation for wood and wood products, in order to obtain credits.

1. Green Star and Wood Products Maximising Green Star Ratings with Wood Products

2. Learn more about wood at UTAS Centre for Sustainable Architecture with Wood Graduate Certificate in Timber (Processing & Building) 4 units, part time, online Areas covered include: Wood science Design for durability and service for life Timber as a renewable resource Sustainable design and construction Engineered wood products International technologies and developments Plus, selected topics of individual interest More information: Associate Professor Greg Nolan (03) 6324 4478 or enquiries@arch.utas.edu.auwww.csaw.utas.edu.au

6. This Presentation Green Star Ratings Overview Tools and credit categories Management Indoor Environment Quality Materials Innovation Points summary

7. Green Star Ratings Overview Green Star Credit Categories Green Star Tool

8. Green Star Rating Tools Current tools: Education v1 Healthcare v1 Industrial v1 Multi Unit Residential v1 Office v3 Office Interiors v1.1 Retail Centre v1 Office Design v2 & Office As Built v2

9. Green Star Ratings Tools PILOT / under development: Custom - Pilot Convention Centre Design - Pilot Public Building - Pilot Communities – Under Development Existing buildings – Under Development

10. Green Star Credit Categories Green Star Credit Categories: Management Indoor Environment Quality Energy Transport Water Materials Land Use & Ecology Emissions Innovation

11. Category: Management Points can be earned in each of the following: Man 1: Green Star Accredited Professionals Man 7: Waste Management Man 10: Learning Materials (Education v1)

12. Management: Green Star Professional Man-1: Green Star Accredited Professional WoodSolutions CPD (Maybe) coming soon towww.woodsolutions.com.au/learn Wood and Sustainable Building Wood as Resource Lightweight Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort

13. Management: Waste Management Man-7: Waste Management ≥ 60% reused/recycled = 1 point ≥ 80% reused/recycled = 2 points Demolition and construction structural and packaging timber readily diverted for: Reuse Recycling Renewable energy www.timberstewardship.org.au

14. Management: Waste Management www.timberstewardship.org.au

15. Wood Reuse , Repair & Recycling Facilities – Sydney Kennedys Aged Timber, QLD Australian Architectural Hardwoods, Kempsey Kimbriki WSN Belrose Blacktown Waste Services WSN Seven Hills WSN Ryde CHEP WSN Artarmon ANL/WSN Eastern Creek WSN Auburn Veolia Horsley Park Reefway Loscam SITA Elizabeth Drive Abbey Pallets Ironwood Brandown WSN Chullora Metropolitan Demolitions Veolia Greenacre Alexandria Landfill Benedicts Chipping Norton ANL Badgerys Creek Enviropallets Banksmeadow WSN Rockdale Heritage Building Centre Glenfield WSN Jacks Gully Wood reuse / recycling WSN Lucas Heights Camden Soil Mix Wood pallet reuse / repair Wood shredding (recycling untreated / uncoated solid timber) Thors Hammer, ACT Nullabor Timber, Delta, Urban Salvage etc VIC Direct Pallets Advance Pallets

16. Waste Management: Reuse

17. Waste Management: Recycling D&R Henderson - Vic EMRC & Laminex - WA

18. Waste Management: Recycling

19. Waste Management: Renewable energy

20. Management: Learning Resources Green Star Education v1 Man-10 : Learning Resources 1 point Awarded for signage etc. displaying three measurable environmental attributes One must be water and another energy One can be lower carbon footprint of the building by using wood

21. Management: Learning Resources Greenhouse gases emitted in the manufacture of building materials used in a range of construction components for a single storey house in Sydney, Australia. Source: Forests, Wood and Australia’s Carbon Balance (2006)

22. Management: Learning Resources Greenhouse gases emitted in the manufacture of building materials used in a range of construction components for a single storey house in Sydney, Australia. Source: Forests, Wood and Australia’s Carbon Balance (2006)

23. Category: Indoor Environment Quality Points are potentially available in: IEQ: Volatile Organic Compounds IEQ: Formaldehyde Minimisation

24. IEQ: Volatile Organic Compounds Paints Wood veneer panels clear coatings Adhesives / Sealants Veneer panels adhesives Carpets / Floor covering Solid timber floor coatings Laminate flooring adhesives

25. IEQ: Formaldehyde Minimisation Composite wood products: Plywood, particleboard and MDF Does not include: Any composite wood used in exterior (e.g. façade) Formwork Internal car park Reused items Raw timber Does not mention: LVL (laminated veneer lumber), I-beams,

26. IEQ: Formaldehyde Minimisation Low-emission formaldehyde OR No emission formaldehyde – 1 point All composite wood products used in the project must be in accordance with these requirements. Basically: MDF and plywood <1.0 mg/l (max) Particleboard <1.5 mg/L (max)

27. IEQ: Formaldehyde Minimisation

28. IEQ: Formaldehyde Minimisation Office Interiors V3.3 Additional 1 point for: ≤ 0.3 mg/L (mean) – 0.4 mg/L (max) Same limit for all composite wood products Japanese standard and test method F**** [F4star] Regarded as most stringent standard in the world All Australian-made structural, marine, external plywood and LVL would meet

29. IEQ: Formaldehyde Minimisation

30. IEQ: Formaldehyde Minimisation “Please be aware that the GBCA has moved away from all references to ‘E grades’ (e.g. E1, E0, Super E0) and now refers to compliance according to the emission limit values only.”

31. Category: Materials (MAT) Building Reuse Timber Design for Deconstruction Fitout: Furniture Flooring Assemblies

32. MAT: Building Reuse Building Reuse – 6 points

33. MAT: Building Reuse © James Pierce & Associates © Frank M Mason & Co Pty Ltd © Expedia Inc

34. MAT: Sustainable Timber / Timber

35. MAT: Timber 2 points available for projects registered before 1st January 2010 ≥ 95% (by cost) of timber must be either: FSC certified Reused/recycled timber or a combination of the above

36. MAT: Timber 1 point only available for projects registered from 1st January 2010 ≥ 95% (by cost) of timber must be either: PEFC certified FSC certified Reused/recycled timber or a combination of the above Criteria for two points - pending

37. MAT: Timber - PEFC PEFC – Programme for Endorsement of Forests Certification Endorses schemes in North America, Europe, Malaysia Endorses Australian Forestry Certification Scheme’s Australian Forestry Standard (AFS)

38. MAT: Timber - FSC FSC – Forest Stewardship Council Big in New Zealand, Canada, South America, Europe Active in Indonesia (MoU with LEI) Interim Australian forest management Standard Certifies small area of plantations (mostly for pulp/paper) in Australia

39. MAT: Timber – PEFC vs FSC Equivalence for legality and sustainability recently reconfirmed by independent reviews for UK, German Governments PEFC and FSC both accepted by Italian Green Building Council

40. MAT: Timber – Chain of Custody (CoC) “Refer to the relevant forest certification scheme's CoC guidelines/standard for guidance on how to provide CoC documentation that will meet credit criteria” Fundamental difference in CoC: PEFC CoC based on suitable marking FSC CoC based on ownership

41. MAT: Timber – Chain of Custody (CoC)

42. MAT: Timber – Chain of Custody (CoC) PEFC / AFCS - Suitable marking Pack marking Pack marking suitable for: Bulk structural timber and plywood Formwork Raw particleboard / MDF panels

43. MAT: Timber – Reused timber Deconstructed houses warehouses, wool stores Bridges Power poles

44. MAT: Timber – Reused formwork Shifting and reusing from one job to the next Recognised as “reuse” under previous Technical Clarification

47. MAT: Fitout products e.g. Flooring, joinery, wall assemblies Material calculators Current system: To get points must meet either: Recognised standards by recognised bodies: i.e. a “certified product” e.g. Panel standard of GECA OR Criteria in materials calculators Note - A product that is not certified could achieve 100% of available points in Material Calculators.

48. MAT: Fitout products Flooring, furniture, assemblies Future System From early 2011 To get points these must meet revised criteria in materials calculators

49. MAT: Fitout products - criteria Criterion 1: Re-used items Criterion 2: Product stewardship Criterion 3: Certified products Criterion 4: Re-used, recycled or certified content Criterion 5: Environmental management systems

50. MAT: Fitout products - criteria Criterion 3: Certified products A “certified product” is a product that meet GBCA recognised standards by GBCA recognised bodies: E.g. Raw Panel standard of GECA, Note - A product that is not certified could achieve 100% of available points in Material Calculators.

51. MAT: Fitout products - criteria Criterion 4: Re-used, recycled or certified content PEFC or FSC certified wood products (with CoC) are recognised as “certified content”

52. MAT: Fitout – Calculators

53. Category: Innovation (INN) Not a weighted category Goes onto your points as they are earnt Possible 1 point available

55. LCA recognises the embodied GHG emissions from construction materials (and their transport)

57. INN: Environmental Design Initiatives Carbon calculators can be used to estimate: Amount of carbon(and carbon dioxide) stored in the building Avoided carbon emissions from using wood instead of alternatives e.g. NZ Wood

58. Points summary

59. Weightings

60. Learn more about wood at UTAS Centre for Sustainable Architecture with Wood Graduate Certificate in Timber (Processing & Building) 4 units, part time, online Areas covered include: Wood science Design for durability and service for life Timber as a renewable resource Sustainable design and construction Engineered wood products International technologies and developments Plus, selected topics of individual interest More information: Associate Professor Greg Nolan (03) 6324 4478 or enquiries@arch.utas.edu.auwww.csaw.utas.edu.au

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