Energy use reduction
Klar Cite’s nameMandatory
Required: must be met for the credential.
Guidance
This is guidance, not a requirement. Green Star Buildings Submission Guidelines restates what Green Star’s standard requires; the register holds it and cites it, and does not count it as a requirement or show it as one.
Superseded
The document this clause was read from is superseded. It is kept so older citations resolve.
Green Star·clause Reducing Energy Use·p.147
Climate Health
- Level
- Exceptional Performance
Original wording
Green Star Buildings Submission Guidelines clause Reducing Energy Use — words not shown. Read it at the source. The held copy is a single-user licence and does not extend to republishing its clauses.
The clause is held and verified. Only its words are withheld.
Klar Cite classification — not the standard’s words
Addresses: building's energy efficiency relative to benchmark
written by a model, checked against the clause
Details
How it is proven
- Who checks it
- Independent body verifies — a certifier, auditor or verifier with no stake
Klar Cite’s reading
Klar Cite’s reading of the clause, not the scheme’s own claim.
- Type of requirement
- Meet a limit or condition — e.g. a maximum emission or a minimum recycled content
- Standing
- Required — must be met for the credential
- Topic
- Climate Health — the topic the clause addresses, grouped by the Common Materials Framework (CMF)
- Level
- Exceptional Performance — the level of the credential this clause belongs to
Cite this clause
Green Star · Green Star Buildings Submission Guidelines · version v1 Rev C · clause Reducing Energy Use · page 147 · build 2026-10-27-1239 · https://klarcite.com/r/06d607455a3e97b6
Record details
Page 147. Read in build 2026-10-27-1239, harvested 2026-10-27.
uid 06d607455a3e97b6 · document 51b013d0b927654f · published 2023-10