Sustainable apartments

Find out how cost-efficient your apartment is to run

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If you’re looking for ways to save on your energy and water bills, we can help. With the cost of living soaring including utility bills increasing, knowing how you can reduce your energy usage can help ease the financial pressure.

Apartment and unit dwellers often feel helpless dealing with increasingly high energy and water bills, because they think nothing can be done to change the situation. Particularly when it comes to increasing body corporate fees caused by increasing costs of running the common areas in their block.

For over 15 years, Green Moves has been helping homeowners and tenants live more sustainably and comfortably, in their homes, apartments and units. We can help you identify what’s using energy in your apartment or unit and give you advice on how best to deal with it. If you’ve got high common area charges, we can help with this too.

What’s involved in an apartment and unit efficiency assessment

Our services range from a simple advisory consultation (approximately 1 hour or more), a Scorecard assessment, or an energy audit.

Why choose a Scorecard assessment

There are many benefits to getting a Scorecard assessment for your apartment or unit. It provides an indication of the cost to run, tells you how well your home performs in summer and winter, where it uses the most energy and empowers you to make informed decisions and improvements. You’ll also get a Scorecard certificate with the energy efficiency star rating for your home.

Why do an energy audit

You can choose from three types of energy assessments that will help you identify ways to reduce your energy bills. This is what a Standard energy audit includes

  • Review your recent energy bills (ideally 12 months’ worth)
  • Review your home appliances and how often they get used
  • Quantify your energy use and reconcile it with your bill
  • Identify key problem areas
  • Find out what quick wins you can achieve
  • Discuss your options to reduce your energy usage and improve your comfort

You will get a summary report by email with our findings and recommendations and a list of priority actions for you.

How much does it cost

Our fee is approximately $420 including GST, depending on the size of your apartment.

If several people in your building would like an assessment, and it can be arranged on the same day, we’re happy to make this more cost-effective for everyone involved.

Common area assessment

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Bringing down costs for lower Body Corporate fees

The common areas in your building contribute significantly to Body Corporate costs for you as an apartment or unit owner. There are many ways to minimise these costs without compromising on the services they offer. Our thorough common area assessment includes

  • Common area heating and cooling
  • Energy efficiency (lighting, lifts, car parks etc)
  • Water efficiency (gardens, pools etc)
  • Waste (facilities, recycling etc)


You will receive a short and easy-to-follow report, helping you to understand how the energy and water in your buildings are used. We’ll also give you a prioritised list of actions that your Body Corporate can work through at a suitable pace.

NABERS assessments for common areas

You can also get a NABERS assessment done for your building’s common areas. By assessing the common areas in your building for energy, water and waste you can see how well your building is performing when benchmarked against others, reduce operating costs, and increase market value.

Why choose Green Moves

Our assessors have years of experience in residential apartment efficiency. We’re fully accredited assessors and understand well how important home comfort and cost efficiency is, and the limitations of some apartment buildings.

You’ll find a full range of sustainable home solutions from our list of services. From basic guidance to fully tailored solutions, we’ll work with you to make sure you get the best advice and service.

We don’t take any fees or commissions from providers so you can trust that all the advice and recommendations you receive are completely independent. We pride ourselves on our easy-to-understand reports and practical advice that is also financially viable.

You’ll love how easy it is to deal with us. We believe in being honest and open and always strive to communicate clearly with you. You’ll always find our friendly team approachable and helpful.

We look forward to helping you make more informed decisions, save money, save energy and live more comfortably.

Find out what people we’ve worked with say about us

Danielle and Green Moves provided a full energy audit report and “Victorian Residential Energy Scorecard” for my apartment. Danielle was very knowledgeable, professional and friendly throughout the process. The report Danielle provided was much more thorough than I expected and prioritised energy efficiency improvements based on the savings versus the upfront cost. Given various improvements possible, this was highly valuable and took the guesswork out of where to direct improvements. Further, the report detailed expected electricity use given the apartment’s appliances and highlighted a large portion of ‘unidentified usage’ that was tracked down to a secondary water heater that I was not previously aware of – switching this off has halved my electricity usage!!
I highly recommend Green Moves.

Dan Brooks

Fitzroy, VIC

Danielle was excellent, very knowledgeable and practical. We especially appreciated her suggestions as they were prioritised and took into account the energy savings versus the money spent to upgrade or improve. Highly recommend this service.
Danielle helped us to decide where to spend our money to improve our home energy usage.

Cristin B

Oakleigh, VIC

We chose GreenMoves Australia to complete an Energy Efficiency Scorecard after considering a number of local suppliers. The booking and assessment process was simple and prompt. We enjoyed having Lucinda visit and complete the assessment. She engaged well, was very thorough, answered a lot of questions, and explained things extremely well. The report provided complete observations, advice, and general information. Despite being stunned by the positive outcome rating we will be undertaking the few recommended additional improvements.
Thank you for the prompt provision of this service.

Kerry C & Cushla C

Cranbourne West, VIC

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