Stormwater management requirement

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.

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Ecosystem Health

Exemption: A coastal site where the project stormwater outflows are directly into tidal areas or the ocean. A site where groundwater infiltration is not appropriate due to soil or topographical conditions (refer Guidance for examples) and the project has insufficient demand for harvested water. In a tropical region (as per NCC climate zones) where retention of high intensity flows on larger sites is not feas
Level: Credit Achievement

Original wording

Green Star Buildings Submission Guidelines clause Stormwater Volume Management — 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: site water catchment evaluation

written by a model, checked against the clause

Read it at the source

Details

What the product must meet

Exemptions: A coastal site where the project stormwater outflows are directly into tidal areas or the ocean. A site where groundwater infiltration is not appropriate due to soil or topographical conditions (refer Guidance for examples) and the project has insufficient demand for harvested water. In a tropical region (as per NCC climate zones) where retention of high intensity flows on larger sites is not feas

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: Ecosystem Health — the topic the clause addresses, grouped by the Common Materials Framework (CMF)
Level: Credit Achievement — 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 Stormwater Volume Management · page 303 · build 2026-10-27-1239 · https://klarcite.com/r/ff54ac194f17bace

Source document

Record details

Page 303 of the file (printed page 304). Read in build 2026-10-27-1239, harvested 2026-10-27.

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