The South African eJournal of Green Building
Edited by Llewellyn van Wyk, the South African e-Journal of Green Building is the academic email Journal that is distributed to more than 40 000 built environment stakeholders each month. The e-Journal enjoys terrific readership and includes approximately 12 cutting edge articles in each issue.
This e-Journal is a monthly, green building e-Journal that is currently sent to professionals, government and municipalities, sector relevant associations and NGO’s, research institutions and relevant stakeholders within South Africa and Africa. The e-Journal focuses on current trends, news and information regarding green building both locally and internationally.
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Living Architecture in Europe- How Tomorrow Is Built Today
Susanna Altarriba / age fotostockAs Europe continues to battle economic and environmental gloom and doom, nations across the continent are re-evaluating how to build the cities of tomorrow with tight budgets and green mindsets. "We are at a key moment, where we as architects must become activists. We must innovate and help to find… Read more...
Sustainable Proof- Post Occupancy Study of 12 Federal Buildings Demonstrates Value of Going Green
While the rush to build sustainably may be somewhat tempered by the economic downturn, a 2008 study conducted by the Washington, D.C.-based U.S. General Services Administration of 12 federal buildings demonstrates that buildings designed to be sustainable deliver on their promise of resource savings and greater occupant comfort. Arraj Courthouse,… Read more...
The Plato Effect in Architecture: Designing for Human Diversity
Image from Wikimedia Commons Darwin's FinchesThe idea that a diverse population needs a diverse environment to succeed seems easy enough to grasp. Certainly, it is easier to comprehend than a one-size-fits-all design philosophy. Why then, in the name of universal design and equality, do architects continue to design uniform one-size-fits-all environments? Answering that is not… Read more...
Vernacular Architecture and the 21st Century
Photo by Flickr user: seier + seier Vernacular architecture, the simplest form of addressing human needs, is seemingly forgotten in modern architecture. However, due to recent rises in energy costs, the trend has sensibly swung the other way. Architects are embracing regionalism and cultural building traditions, given that these structures have proven to be energy efficient and… Read more...
Witnessing Evolution at the Solar Declathon
Perkins and WillDarwin knew it when he saw it in 1837. He stepped off the HMS Beagle and observed species that had adapted to the unique environment of the Galapagos Islands; from this he proposed the theory of evolution. On the banks of the Potomac, for the next week, you too can… Read more...
Volume 5, Issue 11
By the time this issue is delivered to your mailbox the climate change negotiations in Durban – COP-17 – will have been concluded. Indications at this early stage are not promising with Canada, the United States and Saudi Arabia reputedly resisting the renewal of the Kyoto Protocol. To all intents… Read more...
The Self-Sufficient Office Building
Kirk Mastin for The New York TimesSEATTLE — One of the most highly anticipated development projects in the Pacific Northwest is still little more than a grid of concrete and rebar at the edge of the Capitol Hill neighborhood here. When completed near the end of next year, though, the six-story office building may be the… Read more...
Landscape Optimism: An Interview with Chris Reed
Stoss Landscape UrbanismIn 2000 landscape architect Chris Reed founded StossLU, or Stoss Landscape Urbanism. Since then the Boston-based office has emerged as one of the leading advocates for enlarging the scope and scale of landscape projects and practices. As Reed wrote in an essay in The Landscape Urbanism Reader, "Contemporary landscape practices… Read more...
Achieving Net-Zero Residential Landscapes
The DirtNet-zero water use is a tangible strategy for creating integrated systems that minimize the impact of our landscape designs on precious water resources. At the 2011 ASLA Annual Meeting, Bobby Markowitz, ASLA, Earthcraft Landscape Design, Marilyn Crenshaw, AIA, The Green Architect, and Bill Wilson, Environmental Consultant at Carlile Macy, presented… Read more...
Volume 5 Issue 10
This month’s edition will, like last month, focus on climate change and the COP-17 climate change negotiations taking place in Durban, South Africa from November to December 2011. Three factors stand out: 1) That significant climate change impacts are occurring and that much of those impacts are caused by our… Read more...
