Survey of hazardous materials in existing buildings

Klar Cite’s name

Mandatory

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.

Green Star·clause Credit 14·p.120

Human Health

Exemption: Projects that do not have existing buildings on the site at the time of purchase or are not retaining any existing buildings on the site are exempt from the Banned or Highly Toxic Materials criterion.
Level: Minimum Expectation

Original wording

Green Star Buildings Submission Guidelines clause Credit 14 — 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: surveying existing buildings for hazardous materials before works.

written by a model, checked against the clause

Read it at the source

Details

What the product must meet

Exemptions: Projects that do not have existing buildings on the site at the time of purchase or are not retaining any existing buildings on the site are exempt from the Banned or Highly Toxic Materials criterion.

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: Human Health — the topic the clause addresses, grouped by the Common Materials Framework (CMF)
Level: Minimum Expectation — the level of the credential this clause belongs to

Cite this clause

Green Star · Green Star Buildings Submission Guidelines · version v1.1 Rev A · clause Credit 14 · page 120 · build 2026-10-27-1239 · https://klarcite.com/r/1d678c127ca37d65

Source document

Record details

Page 120. Read in build 2026-10-27-1239, harvested 2026-10-27.

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