Derisha Govender is an Architectural Technologist; she graduated with her undergraduate degree in architecture from Wits and spent a year as an intern at Solid Green learning more about sustainable building so that she could apply it to her work as she pursues her Honours degree in architecture at Wits in 2017.

Derisha believes that there are numerous benefits to sustainable building design; she completed the AP courses on the New Buildings and Existing Buildings Green Star Tools as well as the Edge tool course with the intention of getting a better grasp on what it take for a building to be “green”.