Browsing Book Chapters by Author "Van Wyk, Llewellyn V"

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Accelerating the green agenda through innovative building technologies

Author: Van Wyk, Llewellyn V Date: Aug 2015 This 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
Building resilient human settlements in a climate of change

Author: Van Wyk, Llewellyn V Date: Feb 2012 The main purpose of this chapter is to 1) note the impacts of climate change on human settlements and vice versa, and 2) propose design and institutional strategies to improve the resilience of human settlements to withstand these impacts or ... Read more
Ecobuilding: towards an appropriate architectonic expression

Author: Van Wyk, Llewellyn V Date: Feb 2009 Environmental planners design and oversee the construction of the infrastructure that substantially supports the built environment. Infrastructure is being described as the basic physical assets of a country, community or organization, and ... Read more
Evaluating the efficacy of solar chimneys for heating and cooling: A case study

Author: Grobler, Jan-Hendrik ; Conradie, Dirk CU ; Van Wyk, Llewellyn V Date: Mar 2019 The Department of Science and Technology (DST) together with the Eastern Cape Department of Education (ECDOE) are co-funding the construction of a science centre in the village of Cofimvaba in the Eastern Cape. The purpose of the science ... Read more
Feasibility study for a geothermal heating system: A case study

Author: Lutchman, Stanley ; Van Wyk, Llewellyn V Date: Mar 2019 The Department of Science and Technology (DST) together with the Eastern Cape Department of Education (ECDOE) are co-funding the construction of a science centre in the village of Cofimvaba in the Eastern Cape. The purpose of the science ... Read more
From sustainability to resilience: a paradigm shift

Author: Van Wyk, Llewellyn V Date: Aug 2015 Despite inherent definitional and interpretational difficulties the term ‘sustainability’ is widely used in contemporary economic, social and environmental discourse to describe a desirable endgame. Although the term was popularized in the ... Read more
Green building handbook volume 3: Demolish or deconstruct

Author: Van Wyk, Llewellyn V Date: Nov 2010 Construction is responsible for 50 per cent of all resources consumed in the world making it one of the least sustainable global industries. Although it is difficult to quantify, largely due to the highly variable amount of waste generated ... Read more
Green building handbook volume 3: Scope and flexibility for end-of-life options

Author: Van Wyk, Llewellyn V Date: Nov 2010 The pursuit of sustainable development brings the construction industry, and specifically the building industry component thereof, into sharp relief. The built environment is a major component of contemporary life. Over half the world’s ... Read more
Green building handbook: Green pavement

Author: Van Wyk, Llewellyn V Date: Nov 2010 Infrastructure is one of the key foundations of economic growth. South African cities have grown on the back of infrastructure investments like water, energy, transportation and increasingly telecommunications. Ultimately infrastructure ... Read more
Green roofs

Author: Van Wyk, Llewellyn V Date: Apr 2010 Green 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
Green(ing) infrastructure

Author: Van Wyk, Llewellyn V Date: Mar 2014 Green infrastructure can be defined as the design and development of infrastructure that works with natural systems in the performance of its functions. Green infrastructure recognises the importance of the natural environment in land use ... Read more
High-Performance Green Building: Towards a Conceptual Framework

Author: Van Wyk, Llewellyn V Date: Oct 2016 The 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
Hybrid design strategies for recommended indoor air quality: The case of Hillside Clinic, Beaufort West

Author: Van Reenen, Coralie A ; Van Reenen, Tobias H ; Nice, Jako A ; Motsatsi, Lorato L ; Conradie, Dirk CU ; Van Wyk, Llewellyn V ; Bhikoo, Bhikoo, J ; Kuschke, U Date: Oct 2020 The high occupancy that typically occurs in South African clinics, and the accompanying risk of airborne infection, make ventilation and thermal comfort particularly important considerations in the design. Passive (natural) ventilation offers ... Read more
Introduction: Green Building Handbook

Author: Van Wyk, Llewellyn V Date: Aug 2010 By 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
Material efficiency and the 3 Rs

Author: Van Wyk, Llewellyn V Date: Aug 2015 Significant 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
Materials

Author: Van Wyk, Llewellyn V Date: Feb 2009 The construction industry is a multi-billion dollar industry, and the production and harvesting of raw materials for building purposes occurs on a world-wide scale. Environmental issues are becoming a major world topic, and the construction ... Read more
Mauritius green building handbook, vol 1: Building envelope

Author: Van Wyk, Llewellyn V Date: Aug 2010 The building envelope plays a significant role in the performance of a building, especially with regard to the green building components. This chapter will focus on the external building envelope only, i.e., sub-structure, super structure, ... Read more
Net-zero building

Author: Van Wyk, Llewellyn V Date: Jan 2013 In 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
The science, technology and innovation/sustainability nexus

Author: Van Wyk, Llewellyn V Date: Dec 2015 Human settlements historically conjure up contradictory images (think Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities): one is that of the dynamic, cosmopolitan centre of business, culture and entertainment with lively, diverse and socially inclusive ... Read more
Sub-structure

Author: Van Wyk, Llewellyn V Date: Apr 2010 Sub-structure generally refers to those components of the building that are constructed below ground, although there are circumstances when sub-structure can also include components above ground such as supporting columns on steeply sloping ... Read more

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