From Off-Grid to Net Positive: Powering Sustainable Futures through Clean Energy
Affordable, reliable and clean energy is foundational to sustainable development. SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy recognises that energy access underpins progress across education, health, equality, economic opportunity and climate action.
+24th February 2026
From Net Zero to Net Positive: Solid Green’s Next Frontier
Solid Green’s offices have always embodied our core values. This year, we took the first steps towards making our Parkhurst office Net Positive.
+10th December 2025
We’re expanding our Footprint and Expertise!
We’re delighted to announce two major milestones for Solid Green – a new office in Cape Town and expanded expertise in Existing Buildings!
+28th March 2025
Solid Green’s New Mural: A Journey of Art and Sustainability
Solid Green is thrilled to share an exciting development in our ongoing journey to renovate our new office in Parkhurst – an inspiring mural that reflects a highly successful collaboration.
+12th June 2024
Our Office Chapter 12: Far from Yesteryear
In reflecting on the office journey for this year, the “How it started … How it’s going” meme resonates with us – encapsulating the journey through time by juxtaposing contrasting starting and current points
+17th March 2024
Our Office: Chapter 11 – Embracing regeneration
With the expansion of our staff complement in 2022, the next phase of our office evolution involved workspaces for up to twenty people, together with the need for more agile spaces for work, collaboration and reflection.
+10th March 2023
Our New Office: Chapter 10 – targeting Net Zero
Solid Green’s new office in Parkhurst runs completely off the grid. Here, Chilufya Lombe shares the reality of what it has taken to embark on the solar journey, and the benefits experienced.
+9th November 2022
Our New Office: Chapter 9 – The Multipurpose Space
After developing the garden and really enjoying the first months of 2022, Solid Green decided to bite the bullet and deal with the last phase of their new office renovation – the back building. Here, Marloes Reinink tells us more.
+11th May 2022
Our new office – Chapter 8: The Garden
After two years of construction, Solid Green’s garden is finally taking shape and providing joy and respite to everyone who works and visits the new office. Here, Marloes Reinink and Ryoko Tamada, landscape consultant, share their process.
+2nd November 2021
OUR NEW OFFICE: CHAPTER 7!
Progress at our new office in Parkhurst is slow but steady and, with the onset of spring, we are looking forward to developing and using our new garden. Marloes Reinink tells us more.
+31st August 2021
OUR NEW OFFICE: CHAPTER 6!
The journey to continue our sector-leading sustainability work from our new office in Parkhurst has certainly been an interesting one. Here, Marloes Reinink shares the process and the joy of being able to slowly move into our new home!
+3rd May 2021
OUR NEW OFFICE: CHAPTER 5
From early 2021, the Solid Green team will be continuing its sector-leading sustainability work from its new premises in Parkhurst, Johannesburg. A great deal of work has been put into ensuring that these new offices reflect the company’s values and ethos.
+10th December 2020
Our New Office: Chapter 4
Solid Green’s move out of our old home in Rosebank coincided with the global COVID-19 pandemic and delays on the site of our new home in Parkhurst. Marloes Reinink talks about how the company is coping in these strange and uncertain times
+4th May 2020
Our New Office: Chapter 3
Work is progressing well at our new office in Parkhurst. Gavin Westbrook explains that, as one of Africa’s foremost sustainability consultancies, Solid Green is walking the talk and actively pursuing the Living Building Challenge (LBC) Core certification.
+4th March 2020
Living Future Collaborative in South Africa
As part of the drive towards a regenerative and net zero built environment, the Living Future Collaborative of South Africa has been officially launched. The organisation held its first series of events, ‘Truth in Action’, in November 2019.
+21st February 2020
Our New Office: Chapter 2
In October 2019, Solid Green hosted a Biophilia workshop for our staff and the professional team working on our new office in Parkhurst, to get everyone’s input on the design and to explore how they want the building to relate to them and the environment.
+12th December 2019
Solid Green’s New Offices in Parkhurst!
As Solid Green approaches its 10th birthday, directors Marloes Reinink and Chilufya Lombe have taken the bold step of purchasing a property in Parkhurst, Johannesburg, for the company’s new offices. Here we share the start of our journey towards our new home!
+29th August 2019
Solid Green’s Offices on the Biophilic Map
Leading the green building sector, Solid Green has achieved another First with its own office being the first project in Africa to make it onto the Biophilic Map.
+21st May 2018
Rethinking Waste as a Resource
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
Trend Analysis: Greening Interiors
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
Solid Green Offices Awarded Prestigious LEED Green Building Certification
Solid Green recently achieved the LEED Platinum certification for commercial interiors for its Rosebank offices. The U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED rating system is the foremost programme for design, construction, maintenance and operation of structures for high levels of environmental and health performance.
+5th October 2016
Green Star SA Leadership Awards
In 2016, Solid Green again took top honours at the Green Building Convention – hosted by the Green Building Council South Africa – in three out of four Green Star SA Leadership Awards categories.
+26th August 2016
Six stars for Solid Green’s own offices
In being awarded SA’s first 6-Star Green Star SA Interiors v1 certification for its Rosebank offices, Solid Green has achieved a significant milestone – demonstrating, once again, its commitment to sustainable building design, practice and innovation.
+8th July 2016
