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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