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28 August 2012 PHG Hotels saving R4.5 million per year after energy-saving retrofits

African Pride Crystal Towers has introduced energy-saving retrofits as part of the Protea Hospitality Groups sustainability driveIn the start of a concerted portfolio energy sustainability drive, 20 hotels in the Protea Hospitality Group have in the past year been fitted with lighting or water heating energy saving devices that substantially reduce those properties’ overall electricity consumption. The retrofits of lighting and water heating systems makes sense not only from a sustainability perspective, says Protea...

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16 July 2012 Heat pumps save energy on water heating

The installation of three Thermowise heat pumps at a home for the aged in Durban will add significantly to the energy and cost savings already achieved by the solar water heating system.ThermoWise, working with Eskom, will save an old age home in Durban more than R1.6 million in electricity costs over the next five years.  Bronwynn Fine, sales director at ThermoWise – a company that specialises in energy solutions, explains. “In April 2010, Eskom was commissioned by the old age home to log and monitor the monthly electrical consumption for the establishment’s hot wate...

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23 June 2012 Onderstepoort opts for solar water heating

The solar water heating system at the Onderstepoort campus of the University of Pretoria includes 336 solar collectors installed on the roofs of campus carports and other buildings.Holms and Friends, formerly Omnibus Engineering and a member of SESSA, the Sustainable Energy Society of Southern Africa, has installed a solar water heating system at the University of Pretoria’s Onderstepoort campus. With a total collector surface of 672m2 this is the biggest glazed installation in Southern Africa.  The installation meets the warm water needs of the university’s new en...

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22 May 2012 SANRAL leads the way for green government buildings

The new corporate headquarters for the South African National Roads Agency Limited (SANRAL) in Pretoria has been awarded a 4-star Green Star SA - Office Design v1 rating by the Green Building Council of South Africa (GBCSA), the country’s green building authority.  As the first parastatal in South Africa to achieve a Green Star SA rating for one of its buildings, SANRAL, an agency of the D...

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22 May 2012 PVC minimisation clause out of Green Star ratings

DPI Plastics markets a wide range of PVC products including U-PVC – unplasticised PVC, M-PVC – modified PVC, and O-PVC – oriented PVC, each having their own specific attributes.The Green Building Council of South Africa (GBCSA) has announced that the use of PVC products in buildings seeking Green Star SA ratings will no longer be penalised. This means that environmentally conscious building contractors in South Africa can now make use of the full benefits of PVC piping products.  The GBCSA developed its Green Star SA rating system to provide the local property in...

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