Author:Van Wyk, Llewellyn VDate:Aug 2015This chapter flows out of study (CSIR 2013b) prepared for the Presidential Infrastructure Coordinating Commission (PICC) in May 2013 which prepared a value proposition for the use of Innovative Building Technology (IBT) for the construction ...Read more
Author:Osburn, LDate:Nov 2010Energy modelling can be used in a number of different ways to fulfill different needs, including certification within building regulations or green building rating tools. Energy modelling can also be used in order to try and predict what the ...Read more
Author:Jonker Klunne, WDate:Jan 2013Worldwide increasing attention to energy consumption and associated environmental impacts thereof has resulted in a critical attitude towards energy usage of building. Increasing costs of energy and dependence on energy service providers add ...Read more
Author:Van Wyk, Llewellyn VDate:Jul 2008The purpose of this paper is to determine whether green building assessment criteria meet the imperatives of sustainable development. The paper finds that green building assessment criteria fail to meet the sustainable development imperatives ...Read more
Author:Van Wyk, Llewellyn VDate:Dec 2016Although not explicitly stated, green A. rating systems fundamentally aim to improve building performance albeit with a bias toward environmental issues. Thus LEED promotes its system as being "resource efficient"reducing water and energy use ...Read more
Author:Van Wyk, Llewellyn VDate:Dec 2017Over the years the Green Building Handbook has increased its scope beyond the confines of "green building" as typically defined in green building rating systems. This is largely due to the recognition that building green, or more accurately, ...Read more
Author:Van Wyk, Llewellyn VDate:Feb 2019At a higher level the quality of infrastructure in South Africa continues to deteriorate and achieving sustainable infrastructure in the light of increasing demand is a key requirement for improving the quality of life of our people. A chapter ...Read more
Author:Van Wyk, Llewellyn VDate:Apr 2010Green roofs are roofs that have been covered with a growing medium, creating a habitat on what would otherwise be a bland, lifeless surface. It is for this reason that green roofs are sometimes call 'vegetated' or 'living' roofs (Cantor 2008). ...Read more
Author:Van Wyk, Llewellyn VDate:Oct 2016The construction, operation and maintenance of the built environment is a significant consumer of resources (Edwards 2002:10), many of which are not renewable (inter alia steel, aluminium, clay, cement, aggregates). It is also recognised that ...Read more
Author:Ampofo-Anti, NDate:Jan 2010The environmental rating and certification of products is a voluntary, market-based response by industry and business to the consumer’s perceptions of the importance of the environment. On the one hand, environmental product certification ...Read more
Author:Van Wyk, Llewellyn VDate:Jul 2012Government adopted A National Framework for Green Building in South Africa (NFGBSA) in November 2011 as its official policy toward green building. The NFGBSA assists Government in meeting its sustainable development commitments through its ...Read more
Author:Van Wyk, Llewellyn VDate:Aug 2010By recognising the specific environmental challenges facing South Africa, mindful of the government‘s commitment to reducing South Africa‘s Greenhouse gas emissions, and acknowledging the need to build social cohesion, the Green Building ...Read more
Author:Ampofo-Anti, NLDate:Feb 2012This chapter examines the international state-of-the-art of environmental labelling of buildings and construction products; and discusses ways in which the emerging South African framework for environmental labelling could benefit from the ...Read more
Author:Osburn, LDate:Apr 2010Lighting consumes about 30% of the energy used within commercial office space and about 10% of the energy used in a residential environment. Through conscientious design of the lighting systems, the lighting load can be significantly reduced ...Read more
Author:Van Wyk, Llewellyn VDate:Aug 2015Significant pressure is being brought to bear on material manufacturers to green the materials and products produced by industry in general – and the construction sector is no exception, for good reason. The construction industry and its ...Read more
Author:Ampofo-Anti, NDate:Nov 2010The building life cycle demands both operational and embodied energy. It has been estimated that in conventional buildings, operational energy represents approximately 80-90% of total life cycle energy, while embodied energy accounts for the ...Read more
Author:Conradie, Dirk CUDate:Aug 2010South Africa is blessed with some of the best quality solar radiation in the world. In the light of this many exciting opportunities exist to utilize the sun to its full potential in the design of energy efficient buildings. Passive solar ...Read more
Author:Van Wyk, Llewellyn VDate:Jan 2013In its experimental work on research and development of innovative technologies for low income housing on the Innovation Site on the CSIR campus in Pretoria, the Building Science and Technology (BST) competence area identified a number of ...Read more
Author:Conradie, Dirk CU; Kumirai, TDate:Jun 2012During the course of 2009 and 2010 the building performance laboratory (BPL) of South Africa's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) undertook predictive simulations to quantifiy the expected performance of an advanced new ...Read more
Author:Van Reenen, Coralie ADate:Sep 2014The concept of green buildings is in response to the built environment's high negative environmental impact, including its contribution towards greenhouse gas emissions and the resultant climate change. At its core, the green building movement ...Read more