Welcoming Our New Team Members

Bea van Huyssteen joins Solid Green as Personal Assistant to Simon Penso. Bea is focused on providing efficient support and delivering quality work, ensuring that both Simon and the broader team are well supported in their day-to-day operations.

Bea van Huyssteen

Thokozile Lubuta comes on board as a Junior Green Building Consultant. She is eager to contribute meaningful, sustainability-driven ideas, support innovative projects, and help Solid Green achieve its goals through dedication, teamwork, and continuous improvement.

Thokozile Lubuta

We’re also pleased to welcome Jenni Lombard, our new Head of Department: Existing Building Performance. Jenni brings a people-oriented approach to working with both staff and clients, alongside a strong commitment to promoting sustainable building solutions that work in the everyday world.

Jenni Lombard

Joining the consulting team as a Junior Green Building Consultant is Sinazo Mbebe. Sinazo hopes to bring a strong commitment to sustainable development, practical environmental solutions, and collaborative support that helps teams and clients achieve meaningful, long-term impact.

Sinazo Mbebe

Milan Master joins Solid Green as a Sustainability Engineer and Green Building Consultant in the Sustainable Cities and Research Department. Milan brings valuable industry experience, an international perspective, and a refreshing willingness to reconnect our work more closely with Mother Nature.

Milan Master

We also welcome Lindokuhle Matsebula, who joins as a Junior Green Building Consultant. Lindokuhle brings a genuine passion for nature and a deep care for the environment, approaching every project with intention and a focus on creating healthier, more sustainable spaces.

Lindokuhle Matsebula

We’re thrilled to have each of you on board and look forward to the contributions you’ll make as part of the Solid Green journey.

Farewell and Thank You

At the same time, we say goodbye to Aadil Fayzoo and Thato Molapo, who both decided to take the next move in their careers. We would like to thank them sincerely for their contributions, commitment, and the positive impact they’ve had during their time with us. We wish them every success in their future endeavours and new opportunities ahead.

Thato Molapo

Aadil Fayzoo

Change is never easy, but it’s an important part of growth. Here’s to new beginnings, fond farewells, and continuing to build a more sustainable future together.

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Now, as a mother of two children, I have continued to practice these measures and make an effort to pass on this invaluable knowledge to my children. Motherhood has made my passion even stronger over time – to reuse, recycle and reduce wastage as my contribution to this world.

Professionally, my inspiration for buildings started while completing my bachelor’s degree in architecture in Pune, India, where I was influenced by the works of the late renowned architect, Laurie Baker, who believed in bringing together man and nature. I am also a Green Star Accredited Professional in New Buildings and Major Refurbishments through the GBCSA.

I recently joined the Solid Green team where my role is predominantly to guide and assist clients to improve their building performance by implementing various sustainable strategies. I am also involved with WELL projects that focus on the aspect of human wellbeing within building spaces.

Solid Green’s dynamic team has reinvigorated in me the essential 5P’s, namely: Predict, Prevent, Plan, Participate and Perform. Working with this wonderful team brings out my skills to set realistic goals and prioritise tasks, keep an optimistic but practical outlook towards problems to arrive at effective solutions, strive to achieve the best possible outcome, learn to take responsibility for my actions and learn from my past mistakes.

I strongly believe that our sustainable actions today will help make a real difference in our society tomorrow. I aim to learn and implement fresh insights and alternate solutions to bringing about a lifestyle change, encourage conservation and energy efficiency one brick at a time.

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