Green Star · Movement and Place
Green Star transport points come from comparing your project with a reference building. By the time parking numbers are fixed, most of those points are already decided. We assess the site early, run the GBCA calculator, and agree bike, car share and parking recommendations with your architect while they can still change.
Send us your drawings and target rating.
[Why it matters]
In Green Star Buildings, transport points come from comparing your project with a reference project in the GBCA calculator. The plan has to be prepared early, because its recommendations (bicycle storage, car share, parking, path connections) need to be in the design. A late plan only records what's already there.
[What is a Sustainable Transport Plan?]
A GTP is a planning document with operational commitments. The Green Star plan is scored through a calculator against a reference project, and it must drive design recommendations.
Can one document do both? Often, yes, provided it meets both the council condition and the credit requirements. We check both before drafting.
The Movement and Place calculator is part of the credit's submission template in Green Star Buildings v1.1.
A planning document with operational commitments, usually asked for by council.
Green Star Movement and Place. Scored through a calculator against a reference project, and it must drive design recommendations.
[What you receive]
The pedestrian and cycling environment, public transport services, cycle facilities and parking supply.
Car share, path connections, secure cycle storage and end-of-trip facilities, parking restriction, EV charging, and public transport improvements where feasible.
For the owner or tenant.
For the Movement and Place credit.
With the Green Star credit tracker and submission.
Drawings, parking numbers and target rating.
[When do you need one?]
Any Green Star Buildings project targeting the Movement and Place credit needs one. We prepare the plan in-house, inside the Green Star process, alongside our ESD and Green Star work.
We test them against the site and the calculator before they're committed.
We prepare the Sustainable Transport Plan to the credit requirements. Where your traffic report applies, we draw on its parking and access data.
[How it works]
Drawings, parking numbers and target rating.
We confirm the credit target and how the plan fits the credit tracker. Fast-track timeframes are available case by case; timeframes are confirmed at quote.
We assess the site, test the calculator and agree design recommendations with the architect.
The plan, the calculator and the evidence go into the Green Star submission.
A GTP is a planning document with operational commitments. The Green Star plan is scored through a calculator against a reference project, and it must drive design recommendations.
Often, yes, provided it meets both the council condition and the credit requirements. We check both before drafting.
At concept or schematic design, while parking, bicycle storage and access can still change.
We do, in-house, inside the Green Star process. The plan is prepared and reviewed by the same team that runs your Green Star pathway, and we confirm the credit's author requirements for your project at scoping.
[Why Makao]
Transport points are tested against the whole credit strategy.
We prepare Sustainable Transport Plans in-house.
Reviewed by Kelvin Mureithi, Founder, Makao · Green Star Accredited Professional, ISAP, Engineers Australia member.
