Architect and Builder Magazine South Africa November/December 2013

PROJECT Hotel Verde Owner and project team alike are passionate about sustainability and are using the hotel and its cutting edge innovations and technologies to demonstrate what can be done towards a more sustainable future HOTEL VERDE Airport Industria Cape Town DEVELOPERS/OWNERS Dematech PROJECT MANAGERS The Atvantage Group ARCHITECTS Heinrich Gerstner Harding Architects QUANTITY SURVEYORS Alan Chandler & Associates CONSULTING ENGINEERS: CIVIL & STRUCTURAL Moroff & Kuhne ELECTRICAL Driger Consulting ICT WSP Consulting GEOTHERMAL Andrew Hammock & Powell Geothermal Design Engineers W e have a responsibility as a company, as an employer and as a visitor on this planet to live as sustainably as possible. This is the only way we can survive long-term and hand over to our children in a responsible manner. Developers/Owners Comment Mario and Annemarie Delicio of Dematech are the owners behind Hotel Verde – Africa’s greenest hotel. Dedicated and passionate about sustainability, they have transformed what was initially just a sensible business proposition into a showcase for some of the most advanced environmentally conscious technological installations as well as construction and operation practices in the world. Construction on Hotel Verde, which is a part of the recently launched BON Hotels group, began over a year ago just outside Cape Town International Airport, with a team of contractors and experts dedicated to finding the alternative. “If you look at what can be done from a green angle you look at energy, water and waste reduction,” Delicio explains. “You then take each of these areas and work out how to implement alternatives, generating your own electricity for example. Then you need to explore the extent to which you can go.” And the team at Hotel Verde has gone to the greatest extent yet seen on the continent – from locally sourced suppliers to sustainable practices on the building site to multiple ways in which they can generate their own electricity and reduce waste to almost zero. COMMISSIONING AGENTS SMEC (incorporating Vela VKE) OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY CONSULTANTS Eppen-Burger & Associates SUSTAINABILITY CONSULTANTS Ecolution Consulting SUSTAINABLE BUILDING CONSULTANT Solid Green Consulting LEED CONSULTANT Ecocentric URBAN LANDSCAPE Sibane HOTEL OPERATORS Bon Hotels MAIN CONTRACTOR Stefanuttii Stocks PHOTOGRAPHY Couresty of Hotel Verde Opposite Page: Three vertical axis wind turbines are installed at the hotel entrance 22 Hotel Verde

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