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Cato Manor Retrofit - Durban, South Africa
03 January, 2012, World Green Building Council
Durban's historic township of Cato Manor has the first ‘green street’ in South Africa.
As part of our participation in the UN COP-17 climate change summit in Durban, the Green Building Council of South Africa (GBCSA), in association with the World Green Building Council members, retrofitted an entire street with green building technologies.
SA unveils the names of first 28 preferred renewables bidders
12 December, 2011, Engineering News
South Africa’s Energy Minister Dipuo Peters has officially disclosed the names of the first 28 renewable energy independent power producer (IPP) preferred bidders, which now have until June 2012 to take their projects to financial closure.
Green buildings in spotlight as COP 17 looms
05 October, 2011, The Mercury
THE Green Building Council of South Africa (GBCSA) has urged local industry, business and the government to work together to embrace greening the built environment to help mitigate the impact of climate change.
The council is upping the ante on promoting “green building”, taking advantage of South Africa’s hosting of the United Nations’ COP 17 climate change meeting in Durban, to be held on November 28 to December 9. The GBCSA will have a visual and active presence at COP 17.
“With the international community poised to arrive in South Africa for the COP 17 climate change talks in Durban, we must showcase green building and thereby set an example for the rest of the world,” said Bruce Kerswill, executive chairman of the GBCSA.
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