If you’re planning a building you now must ask: How much waste will it generate in construction and how much of that can be recycled? And if you want a high Green Star rating – increasingly required as investors focus on lower-carbon assets – you’ll need to know the answer.

But this comes as no surprise. The tightening of circularity requirements in construction due in an updated Green Star Buildings standard has been a topic of consultation in the industry since last year. So have other critical changes such as mandating all-electric buildings and tightening energy consumption benchmarks.