Solid Green Latest News
The Solid Green blog features the latest in green industry news from here in South Africa and around the world, and documents our journey as we continue to make waves as a major player in the South African Green Building landscape. Join us for the ride!
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Bitcoin not batteries: converting excess solar power into money
News
Solid Green director Warren Gray looks at the business case of ditching batteries and feed-in-tariffs altogether in favour of a less conventional approach to profiting from solar power.
4th April 2017
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Support for Residential Certifications
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Solid Green offers a range of services and products designed to improve the performance of homes, and to make the certification of residential projects easy and efficient.
31st March 2017
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Pegasus, Menlyn Maine
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Menlyn Maine Pegasus was the very first building registered with the GBCSA for a Green Star SA rating in 2009. In 2015, the project’s 4-Star Green Star SA Office v1 Design rating was the twentieth certification facilitated by Solid Green Consulting, and the development received its 4-Star Green Star SA As-built rating in December 2016.
30th March 2017
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Rethinking Waste as a Resource
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Annelide Sherratt, Sustainable Building Consultant at Solid Green, explains the impact of current waste management practices and how we, as individuals, can play a proactive role in limiting the harmful effects of waste on both our health and the environment.
30th March 2017
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Trend Analysis: Greening Interiors
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In response to market demand for spaces that foster improved well-being and higher productivity, interior design priorities are shifting from aesthetics and branding towards healthy and sustainable indoor environments – as ever, Solid Green is at the forefront of these new trends.
30th March 2017
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Green Building Past, Present and Future
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With the GBCSA certifying its 200th project in 2016 and with ten rating tools in operation, green building is quickly becoming the new ‘business as usual’ across all building typologies.
31st January 2017
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A Year as a Solid Intern
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Derisha Govender shares her experiences of sustainability in the built environment: its ability to solve problems while contributing towards meaningful and beautiful architecture; and how the skills that she learned will inform her choices in the future.
31st January 2017
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Residential Modelling: Case Study
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Extensive modelling exercises were undertaken for a four-bedroom house on Waterfall Estate, Johannesburg – and the results yielded significant improvements in terms of energy and cost efficiency for this new home, with a 30% overall improvement in HVAC energy from optimising the building fabric.
26th January 2017
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New Green Building Benchmarks for Waterfall
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Two new green buildings are setting benchmarks for sustainable development in the Waterfall area – the Attacq/Schneider Electric office building is targeting a LEED Gold certification while the Waterfall Public Transport Holding Facility is the first project to achieve a 5-Star Green Star SA PEB v1 rating.
25th January 2017
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Oh, the Places you’ll Charge
News
From Johannesburg to Cape Town via the Drakensberg and Eastern Cape, Solid Green’s Warren Gray shares his experiences of road tripping in South Africa in the BMW i3.
25th January 2017
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Our Year in 2016
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With green building forecast to double globally by 2018, market awareness of the benefits of health and wellbeing in the built environment grew significantly over the last year, in line with savings in consumption of resources and related costs.
14th December 2016
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Green Star Communities Tool gets underway
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Together with TAP Properties and Urban Reflection, Solid Green has recently been appointed to develop the Local Context Report for the new Green Star SA Communities Tool. Solid Green is also the consultant on four of the thirteen projects that will be piloting the tool – Dunkeld, Sandton Gate, Melrose Arch and Menlyn Maine.
25th October 2016
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