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Appendix C: Instructions for Completion of Matrices

Instructions for completion of spreadsheets.

Firstly, I’d like to thank you for taking the time to provide the New Zealand Green Building Council with this information about your assessment frameworks. The purpose of this information gathering exercise is to allow you the opportunity of listing the various topics that your tool measures or rates. This will allow the New Zealand Green Building Council to assess the various different tools available and make recommendations to the New Zealand Ministry for the Environment on which tool or tools would be most suited for adaptation and adoption in New Zealand. For ease of use, the spreadsheets have been separated into the various different topic areas, as listed below:

  • management systems, plans and procedures

  • environmental quality within the building

  • energy efficiency

  • transport

  • water efficiency

  • land use and ecology

  • emissions, effluent and pollution

  • quality, service and risk

  • flexibility and adaptability

  • other.

Could you please fill out, under your tool’s heading, the various different areas measured under these category headings (examples are given at the bottom of each spreadsheet). If there is any area that is measured, that does not fit well into the existing category headings, please include these in the “other” section. For those tools that exist as a suite ie, broken down into different building types, these have been listed with a corresponding letter for example a, b, c, d and so on. Can you also include, after the description of what is measured, the corresponding letter of the particular tool or tools that this relates to. An example might be:

Management Section

Environmental management plan (a, c, d)

This would denote that an environmental management plan is included as a measured area in tools a, c and d.

Should you have any queries relating to this request, please feel free to contact me:

Michael Field
Sustainability Consultant / Green Building Professional
URS New Zealand Ltd
(on behalf of the New Zealand Green Building Council)
Tel: +64 9 355 1346
E-mail: michael_field@urscorp.com

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