Paints and Coatings (PCv2.2ii-2012) Archives

Status:

Superseded
Issue Date:

July 9, 2014
Green Star Applicable
Green Star is Australia's trusted mark of quality for the design, construction and operation of sustainable buildings, fitouts and communities. Choosing Green Star can help you save money, create a healthy place for people, minimise your environmental footprint and build a better future for us all.

Update: This standard has now been superseded, please see new equivalent standard.

This standard covers water based architectural paints (both interior and exterior), student and artists paints, and other water based coatings.

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Paints and Coatings Info Sheet

GECA’s Paints and Coatings standard includes criteria that address:

Fitness for purpose
Volatile organic compound (VOC) content
The use of energy intensive ingredients
Ozone depleting substances
The use of toxic ingredients
Heavy metals, like cobalt or chromium
The use of ingredients toxic to humans or aquatic life
Packaging
Waste minimisation

What makes a paint environmentally preferable?

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We’re Hiring – Standards & Technical Officer

We’re excited to share this opportunity to join our team of dedicated and diverse GECA staff, who are working to create solutions for sustainable consumption and production.

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Green Star is Australia's trusted mark of quality for the design, construction and operation of sustainable buildings, fitouts and communities. Choosing Green Star can help you save money, create a healthy place for people, minimise your environmental footprint and build a better future for us all.

Astec Paints

What our clients say about us

Clients say it’s GECA or nothing. If you don’t have GECA certification it’s a negative. GECA certification is a priority for Haworth.

John Stamoulos

HAWORTH

GECA is seen by major clients across Australia and internationally to be a credible organisation that provides certification to forward thinking companies that seek to maintain and further environmental standards. Envirofluid is glad to be associated with the GECA label”.

Lydia Ohlmeyer, Marketing and Operations Manager

ENVIROFLUID

Being an environmentally aware business, we needed a way to ensure, adhere and implement sustainably preferable strategies into our business plan. The team at GECA is co-operative and their guidance ensured that we not only complied with green standards, but exceeded them. The process is credible and well-received in the market place and ensures that we are set apart from the not-so-genuine ‘greenwashing’ companies.

Donna McMullen, Director

DIRECT ERGONOMICS

Having GECA certification gives added credibility to our already strong Europlank brand. The GECA ecolabel confirms that Havwoods Europlank has been rigorously assessed for its impact over its life cycle and it is safer for our clients, their families and colleagues. When you choose Havwoods GECA certified Europlank you can have confidence in the environmental and health claims of this product range.

David Hickson, General Manager

HAVWOODS

GBCA Green Star projects are a fantastic way of promoting environmentally aware developments that benefit all parties involved. Jardan is committed to the advertisement of eco-labelling as a means of encouraging sustainable practice,

Paints and Coatings (PCv2.2ii-2012)

Standards

Status:

Superseded

Issue Date:

July 9, 2014

Green Star Applicable