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South Africa’s Department of Public Works is the first provincial government building to receive a 5-Star office design rating from Green Star SA.
Running a home office can be like a virus that gradually spreads throughout your space. Yet the more travelling is avoided and time is saved, the greener and more efficiently your initiative is running.
Copiers and office equipment are notoriously greedy consumers of energy, even when sitting idle. Yet we cannot run a business, school or educational institution without this essential equipment.
The 'Waste in Business Seminar 2011', organised by Alive2green, considered the detrimental effects of current waste disposal techniques on the environment by looking at improvements to current technologies and the advancement of renewable and sustainable solutions.
Nedbank has received a 4-star rating for green office design from the Green Building Council of South Africa (GBCSA) for its new regional head office currently underway at Menlyn Maine, Africa's first green city.
Proudly South African announced the winners of their 5th Annual Homegrown Awards competition at a glamorous gala dinner event celebrated at Sandton Convention Centre sponsored by PetroSA.
Imagine an office space that uses the latest eco-friendly materials and technologies to create a completely sustainable environment; a tranquil, airy workspace filled with natural sunlight and surrounded by natural foliage. My team and I are lucky enough to occupy just such a workspace - a sustainable building in Westlake Business Park, Cape Town.
