Upper Grayston Office Park: Learning in practice

It may be business as usual for the tenants of Upper Grayston Office Park Block F but their office building could become a showcase of green building "world leadership" if it receives a 6-Star Green Star SA As-Built rating - bypassing the conventional design rating and proving this professional team built progressively block by block.

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Upper Grayston Office Park Block F, enveloped by Ann Crescent, was designed and built by the same professional team responsible for the entire development. In an exceptional example of incremental improvement, the team applied all the lessons learnt from each building to improve the next.

Upper Grayston Block E was the first in the office park to pursue a Green Star SA rating. In November 2011, Block E received a 4-Star Green Star SA Office v1 Design rating with 55 points. As this was just five points short of a 5-Star rating, the project team decided to target a 5-Star Green Star SA Office v1 As-Built rating with Block E and achieved this in October 2013, with 67 weighted points.

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