2. Local authorities & government benefit enormously because the load and intensity of utilities required, are greatly reduced. This means more of the population can be reached with less resources at a lower cost.
3. Economic growth in neighbourhoods, cities, regions and ultimately countries, results from items 1 & 2.
4. Environmental preservation is achieved at a staggering scale by mass adoption of these methods. Developing countries facing drought conditions with shrinking ground water reserves and dependent on fossil fuels for energy, can benefit the most by this way of thinking.
PERFORMANCE PER UNIT
• Electricity savings of 1080 kWh / m, or 259 MWh over 20 years.
• Water consumption savings of 20 kl / m, or 4 800 kl over 20 years.
• Monetary savings of R2500 p / m, or compounded and escalated to R2.514m over 20 years.
• If 1MWh requires 538kg of coal to generate, it would amount to a saving of 139 tons of coal and considering each ton of coal produces 2.86 tons of the gas CO2, it would mean a saving of 399 tons of CO2 over 20 years. Further to this, if banks were to incentivise this scenario with preferential interest rates and the government were to provide tax benefits, the scenario could be exponentially better. By targeting the middle class, the philosophy will ripple down because of aspirational influence and ripple up because of popularisation, thus making the philosophy the norm and not an alternative. conventional steel structural frame / cross laminated timber structural frame
60kl of rain water depndant on availability 150m 2 hydroponics cultivation provides double skin insulation and waterproofing
optimal solar angle light-weight concrete wall & floor infill panels
65kl of potable water submersible pump circulation reverse osmosis filtering
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