Ghana Green Building Summit – the Hybrid edition
The saying “never waste a good crisis” well applied to this year’s Ghana Green Building Summit (GGBS). With the theme ‘Rethinking Operations Management for High Performance Buildings’, the summit was held virtually and was able to reach many people around the world.
+2nd November 2021
Exploring Sustainable and Resilient Cities
The Covid-19 pandemic has placed a global focus on the urgent need to develop sustainable and resilient cities for future generations. Here Adrie Fourie, head of Solid Green’s Sustainable Cities & Research unit, speaks about the vision for this newly created department.
+3rd May 2021
LFCSA Event: NET POSITIVE ENERGY
On 15 October 2020, the Living Future Collaborative South Africa held its first online Net Zero event entitled ‘NET POSITIVE ENERGY’, which aimed to inspire industry professionals with case studies of super energy-efficient building designs supplemented by renewable energy, with the goal of adding value for building owners and end users.
+5th November 2020
The new, healthier normal
At the recent Ghana Green Building Summit, held online from 23rd – 24th July, Chilufya Lombe spoke about the focus shift towards a new, healthier normal, necessitated by environmental risks like the global Covid-19 pandemic.
+1st September 2020
Ghana Green Building Summit 2019
At the recent Ghana Green Building Summit, held on 13 June 2019 at the Kempinski Hotel, Gold Coast City, Solid Green was represented by Chilufya Lombe who spoke and conducted a workshop on high-performance buildings.
+28th June 2019
Energy Efficiency: the way forward for Nigeria
On 29 August 2017, Nigeria’s first Building Energy Efficiency Code (BEEC) was officially launched in Abuja by the Federal Minister for Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN). Solid Green was commissioned as technical consultant on the project, and Director, Chilufya Lombe, spoke at the launch event.
+6th December 2017
Pioneering energy efficiency and green advocacy in Africa – Asset Magazine
Solid Green was featured in the July 2017 edition of Asset, with a profile piece on Solid Green Consulting director Chilufya Lombe, who chats about green building advocacy and why resource-efficient development is becoming the status quo throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
+27th July 2017
Residential Modelling: Case Study
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
Solid Insight targets Green City Startup top three
Solid Green looks forward to August when Johannesburg’s Green City Startup will decide if Solid Insight, Solid Green’s data- and resource-management platform, places in the Green City Startup top three, a placement which promises between R300 000 and R1 million in prizes and development grants.
+11th May 2016
