Designing for Community Integration: How Green Buildings Enhance Connectivity
In this thought leadership piece, Adrie Fourie, Head of Sustainable Cities & Research at Solid Green, shares how Green Buildings can catalyse urban connectivity and interconnected, thriving communities.
+13th November 2023
Contextual Harmony: Integrating Green Buildings into the Urban Fabric
Today, buildings are no longer standalone entities. They are integral threads woven into the fabric of the neighbourhoods they form part of. Here, Adrie Fourie delves into green buildings as catalysts for placemaking.
+4th October 2023
SABIS International School – Runda, Nairobi, sets a regional precedent
The new SABIS® International School – Runda in Nairobi achieved a 4-Star Green Star Africa-Kenya PEB v1 Design Rating in April 2020. The school was presented as a case study at the World Green Building Week (21-25 September), and a tree-planting ceremony was held as part of the Green Star design certificate handover process.
+21st September 2020
Iconic 35 Lower Long gets 4 Stars
The new 35 Lower Long is an elegant 24-storey tower designed by DHK Architects and developed by owners, Abland and Ellerine Bros, on Cape Town’s Foreshore precinct. With Solid Green as sustainability consultants, the project received a 4-star Green Star Design certification after Round 1 in December 2018.
+26th February 2019
Oxford Parks: A catalyst for urban regeneration
Oxford Parks, which officially broke ground in April 2017, is envisaged to be a sustainable and cosmopolitan medium-density urban environment that brings 300,000sqm of development rights to the Dunkeld Precinct linking Illovo to Rosebank along Oxford Road in Johannesburg.
+21st May 2018
