NABERS turned 20 years in 2018 and launched multiple exciting initiatives during the past year as highlighted in their 2017-2018 Annual Report. Over the past year, the program launched NABERS Co-Assess, NABERS for Apartment Buildings and the new NABERS Waste, as well as helping to develop one of the world’s first Carbon Neutral Building certification schemes.
The 2017-18 financial year also saw NABERS certify record-levels of shopping centres throughout Australia, and increase their NABERS Indoor Environment ratings in offices by 32%. The year also witnessed the debut of NABERS for Public Hospitals which certified 274 hospitals within a year of its launch, making it the fastest uptake of any new NABERS tool to date.
In the year following its expansion, the Commercial Building Disclosure program (CBD) increased the number of office buildings tracking and disclosing their energy performance with NABERS by 21%. Together, these world-leading NABERS initiatives have helped Australian building owners save more than $790 million and 5.4 million Tonnes of CO2 since the program first started in 1998.
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