Course

Managing our landscapes, from individual gardens to vast areas of indigenous grasslands, is vital for sequestering and storing carbon while also increasing and protecting the biodiversity of our plants and animals. 

Understanding the impact of a building on its surrounding ecology is a critical consideration for any sustainable building project. Join our upcoming Net Zero Insights Workshop on Net Zero Ecology to deepen your understanding and make a difference in mitigating the environmental crisis.

This Insights Workshop aims to provide comprehensive guidance on Net Zero Ecology best practice. Facilitated by Marc Sherratt, Managing Director of Sustainability Architects, Marc will unpack the importance of regenerating endangered vegetation types in cities. 

The workshop will cover: 

1. Discuss the urgency of protecting nature.
2. Understanding the Net Zero/Net Positive: Ecology Concept 
3. Unpacking the South African National Biodiversity Offsetting Policy 
4. Evaluate the biodiversity framework and its impact on NZ Building certification.
5. Strategies to accelerate the transitions to net zero whilst safeguarding the biodiversity.
6. Building/Design and portfolio level (Certification)
7. Offsite: Biodiversity offsets and credits
8. Workshop the Eco-Calculator: Assess the different types of vegetative and non-vegetative cover on a proposed development site.
9. Explore what success looks like through a GBCSA Case Study

Course Presenter: Marc Sherratt | Sustainability Consultant, Award Winning Architect and Founder of MSSA Architects

PrArch (SACAP), Net Zero Accredited Professional (GBCSA)

Green Star SA New Buildings Accredited Professional (GBCSA)

About Marc:

Celebrated by the Mail & Guardian as one of South Africa's 200 young visionaries in 2023, Marc Sherratt is an award winning Architect and Net Zero Accredited Professional that started his practice MSSA in 2017. He has grown this practice into an industry leader that has completed some of the most pioneering green buildings in South Africa. Marc holds a Master's in Architecture from the University of Johannesburg and is currently completing a second Master's in Sustainability, through the University of Cambridge. 

MSSA designed the first triple Net Zero building in South Africa for the categories of Carbon, Ecology and Water. They built the first GBCSA certified Net Positive Construction Waste project for the country, that recycled more than 60 tons of waste that would of gone to landfill in the building's construction. They designed and built the county's first Net Positive Ecology Level 2 (Measured) project as well as designed and certified the national government's first Net Zero Carbon Level 1(Modelled) building.

CPD:

Category 1 CPD Credit Value:0.5 for SACAP and ECSA registered professionals