Tutorial: Green Star Design & As Built: Responsible Building Materials - Permanent Formwork, Pipes, Flooring, Blinds and Cables

Certification scheme version
Green Star® Design & As Built v1.2

Shows how to work through the Green Star® Design & As Built credit for PVC-related/containing materials using the GreenDesk worksheet and credit targeting system.

Please note that the official credit title does not explicitly contain the acronym 'PVC'.
You will learn:
  • How to locate a Credit page using various techniques.
  • How to auto-target a Credit.
  • How to populate the worksheet of a Demo Mode Project with demonstration data.
  • How to provide missing values required for credit applicability calculations and criteria calculations.
  • How to use Display Options in worksheet tables.
  • How to add new rows to worksheet tables as Blocks with data values.
  • How to assess credit criteria calculations in worksheets.
  • How to disable/enable Blocks.
  • How to 'complete' an Activity that has passed its Expert System Tests so that it is 'accepted'.
  • How to inspect whether document compliance is met for a Credit.
  • How to access a Credit Submission Form carried by a parent Submission Credit of a sub-credit.
  • How to attach a Credit Submission Form as a compliance document to a credit.
Start here !

Table of contents

  1. Flowchart for the Responsible Building Materials credit for PVC-related products
  2. Access the PVC credit from the PVC worksheet via the Green Star menu
  3. Or access the PVC credit via the categories menu bar and its credit group and parent credit
  4. Or access the PVC credit by searching from the Credits tracking table
  5. Target the credit using the auto-targeting button
  6. The worksheet has no data yet, in demo projects you can create demo data
  7. PVC-related product manufacturers and suppliers table
  8. The credit criteria calculation requires the Total Project Contract Value
  9. Display Options for showing how Best Practice was achieved
  10. Only permanent Formwork items are included
  11. Add an additional PVC-related product, a Pipe type
  12. Impact on the credit criteria calculations
  13. Disable the "culprit" pipe product Block
  14. The Activity must be marked as 'completed' before it is fully 'accepted'
  15. Document compliance is not yet met
  16. The PVC-related portion of the Credit Submission Form
  17. Attach the exported Credit Submission Form to the sub-credit to meet document compliance
Visit also
Tutorial videos