Leaders in NABERS Ratings
for Hotels
Measure performance. Reduce costs. Increase value.
What is an Energy Audit?
A NABERS rating gives hotel operators an independent, nationally recognised measure of their building’s energy and water performance—benchmarked against comparable hotels.
But a NABERS rating is more than a sustainability credential. It is a practical business tool that helps hotel managers reduce operating costs, strengthen their market position and demonstrate measurable environmental performance to guests, corporate clients, government and investors.
NABERS rates hotel energy and water efficiency on a six-star scale, with three stars representing average performance and six stars representing market-leading performance.
Why NABERS matters for hotel management
Win more corporate and government business
Sustainability is increasingly influencing where organisations choose to stay. Australian Government employees are required to consider hotel NABERS Energy ratings when booking accommodation, creating a tangible competitive advantage for hotels with strong ratings.
A publicly listed NABERS rating can also appear on travel platforms including Google Travel, Expedia and Booking.com, making your sustainability credentials more visible to potential guests. A strong NABERS rating can help your hotel stand out when sustainability is part of the booking decision.
Reduce energy and operational costs
NABERS provides a clear benchmark of how efficiently your hotel is operating. By identifying where energy and water are being consumed, hotel management can target operational improvements and efficiency initiatives where they are likely to deliver the greatest return.
NABERS itself reports that its rating system has helped buildings identify opportunities to reduce operating costs and improve performance.
Turn sustainability into a competitive advantage
A verified NABERS rating provides credible, third-party evidence of your hotel’s environmental performance.
Rather than simply claiming to be sustainable, you can demonstrate how your hotel performs against recognised industry benchmarks.
Make sustainability reporting easier
NABERS provides a consistent framework for tracking energy and water performance, making it easier to monitor performance over time, communicate results and support broader sustainability reporting and procurement requirements.
Benchmark performance against comparable hotels
NABERS benchmarks hotel performance against real operating hotels and adjusts for factors such as hotel quality, number of guest rooms, laundering facilities, function room capacity and heated pools.
This means your rating provides a meaningful picture of how efficiently your hotel is performing—not simply how much energy or water it uses.
Why NABERS matters for hotel owners
Data-Driven Insights with Targeted Strategies
Protect and increase asset value
A hotel’s sustainability performance is increasingly relevant to purchasers, investors and financiers.
A NABERS rating provides an independent and comparable measure of operational performance, helping demonstrate the quality and efficiency of an asset to the market. NABERS identifies increased asset value as one of the benefits of strong sustainability performance.
A more efficient, better-performing hotel can be a more attractive asset.
Reduce the cost of ownership
Improving energy and water efficiency can reduce ongoing operating expenditure, strengthening the financial performance of the property.
For owners, this means NABERS can be more than a compliance or reporting exercise—it can help identify opportunities to improve the economics of the asset.
Future-proof your property
Government procurement requirements, sustainability expectations and disclosure requirements are changing.
Since July 2024, Australian Government travellers have been required to consider NABERS Energy ratings when booking accommodation. NABERS has also identified the hotel sector as a priority in the expansion of Australia’s building energy disclosure framework.
Getting rated now allows owners and operators to understand their baseline performance, identify improvement opportunities and prepare for an increasingly performance-driven property market.
Strengthen investment and exit positioning
A credible sustainability rating can help demonstrate the quality of an asset to prospective purchasers and investors.
For hotel owners considering refinancing, repositioning or selling, a strong NABERS performance provides another measurable indicator of the property’s operational efficiency and sustainability credentials.
From rating to performance improvement
We help hotel owners and operators move from measurement to action:
01 — Assess
We gather and validate the required operational data and establish your hotel’s NABERS performance, following a site visit
02 — Benchmark
We identify how your hotel is performing relative to comparable properties
03 — Identify
We highlight opportunities to improve energy and water efficiency and reduce operating costs
04— Improve
We support the implementation of targeted operational and efficiency initiatives
05— Track
We monitor performance over time (real-time monitoring options also available) so you can see whether improvements are delivering results, re-rating with an updated NABERS rating as required to fulfill your obligations.
Your NABERS rating is more than a number.
It is a measure of performance, a tool for reducing costs and an increasingly important commercial credential.
Whether you’re managing a single hotel or a portfolio of properties, we can help you understand where you stand, where the opportunities are and how to turn better environmental performance into business value.
Ready to understand your hotel’s NABERS performance?
Talk to us about your NABERS rating.
