Ace the 2026 BERDE Challenge: Build Ecologically Responsive Designs and Go Green with Confidence!

The main idea here is how BERDE uses stars to show a project’s environmental performance at different stages. For Stage 2, a design-stage assessment checks that the project has solid strategies across key categories—energy, water, materials, indoor environmental quality, waste, and related site and governance aspects—and that these strategies are well-documented and viable in the design.

Arya Residences earning four stars at Stage 2 means it has met the substantial design requirements and demonstrates strong performance across those BERDE categories at this design phase. It signals a high level of commitment and achievement, indicating the project is well positioned to proceed toward final certification while continuing to implement and verify its performance targets.

The other options would reflect lower or different levels of achievement, while four stars at Stage 2 represents a robust design-stage rating that BERDE recognizes for this stage.