Archive for the ‘Green Building’ category
Africa’s Cement Industry to Gather in Cape Town
Africa’s cement industry will for two days this April gather in one of the continent’s biggest environmental and sustainable built environment events.
The inaugural Environmental Cement Africa Conference in Cape Town, South Africa will identify and deliberate on issues around the environment from the African cement producers’ perspective, Demsas Faloppa, CEO of Prescon Ltd, the event’s [...]
Clinton Foundation Helps Green Buildings Spring Up in South Africa
By Laura Grant*
Two large-scale development projects in Gauteng – one in Johannesburg, one in Pretoria – are part of an international initiative to show that cities can grow in ways that are ‘climate positive’.
Anyone who drives between Joburg and Pretoria regularly could be forgiven for assuming that someone has decided that no clod of earth [...]
Green Building South Africa Develops Rating Tools
The Green Building Council of South Africa (GBCSA) has developed rating tools that will be used to provide the property industry with an objective measurement for green buildings and to recognize and reward environmental leadership.
Based on the Australian Green Building Council tools, the Green Star SA ratings tools will be segmented to reflect specific market [...]
A Tour around The Hacienda, Kenya’s first Eco-City
They couldn’t have chosen a more fitting name because the development of an eco-city in Kenya’s tourism hub of Mombasa is the country’s first and probably the boldest in this part of the world.
Mimicking the beautiful haciendas of the Spanish countryside, the developers are looking to something even more spectacular – the design of the [...]
