Feature
Launched in 2017, the Net Zero/Net Positive Certification awards
projects which go beyond the partial reductions recognised in
the current GBCSA tools and have taken the initiative to reach
the endpoint of completely neutralising or positively redressing
their impacts.
Projects are able to achieve Net Zero/Net Positive Ratings in:
• Carbon
• Water
• Waste
• Ecology
Net Zero/Net Positive is a methodology that can accelerate
the GBCSA’s end goal of complete market transformation and
is about inspiring the end goal now. This recognises buildings
that completely neutralise or positively redress their carbon
emissions, water consumption, solid waste to landfill and/
or negative ecological impacts. Ten projects have achieved
certification, for one or more of the issues, in a scheme
that recognises the urgency of impacts beyond energy
consumption in the race to zero. “The first four projects to be
certified as Net Zero under the programme in South Africa
are the Vodafone Site Solution Innovation Centre in Midrand,
which is net zero rated in both carbon and ecology; Estuaries
Plaza in Cape Town, which is net zero water; and Greenfields
Industrial Park in Cape Town and Two Dam Sustainable
in Montagu in the Western Cape, which are both net zero
carbon,” says GBCSA CEO, Dorah Modise. RACA
Exxaro HQ in Centurion.
www.hvacronline.co.za
Some of the green star certified buildings:
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Hotel Verde
Knightsbridge
Multichoice City
Discovery Place
Nedbank Phase II
102 Rivonia Rd
Standard Bank Rosebank
Sasol Place
Stella Place
located in
Sandton.
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Rosebank Towers.
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