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De, Flamingh Francois. "The role of textiles in sustainable South African residential architecture." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/1321.

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Thesis (MTech (Design))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2011<br>Sustainable architecture prescribes the conscious consideration and active contemplation of ways of meeting the housing needs of humans while attempting simultaneously to prevent our consumption patterns from exceeding the resources at our disposal. Sustainability in the built environment is infinitely complex as the very nature of modern architecture is based upon the extraction and exploitation of finite natural resources to feed a linear system ultimately ending in the depletion of those resources and the de
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Viljoen, Francois. "A sustainable strategic architecture for the provision of solar energy to SMMEs in Africa." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/97284.

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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Many rural areas in Africa still lack adequate electricity supply. This has been identified as a major obstacle to development in many African nations. The high costs associated with providing electricity through national grid systems prevent many governments from delivering electricity to remote rural areas. The purpose of this study is to define a strategic architecture and business model that can be used to provide solar energy to Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs) in Africa. The desired outcome is a sustainable bus
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McConville, Jennifer R. "Assessing sustainable approaches to sanitation planning and implementation in West Africa." Licentiate thesis, Stockholm : Mark- och vattenteknik, Land and Water Resource Engineering, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-4767.

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Smit, Gerrit. "Green building guidelines at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1010974.

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Although much research has been conducted on the greening of universities in the international context, not many studies focus on this topic in the South African context. A literature overview also identified that there are insufficient guidelines for green buildings at South African universities. Even though the Green Star rating tool is implemented in South Africa, no set of guidelines for green buildings exits at South African universities. The development of guidelines for green buildings at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan is a challenge which needs to be investigated. From the literature over
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Scott, Meghan Marie. "Westernization in Sub-Saharan Africa: facing loss of culture, knowledge, and environment." Thesis, Montana State University, 2007. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2007/scott/ScottM1207.pdf.

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Meiring, Casper Johannes Knoetze. "Developing a sustainability benchmarking system : a case study of the provincial government Western Cape’s immovable asset assessment pilot project." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/86437.

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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Building structures have a major impact on the quality of the macro-climates of the world, in particular in terms of pollution and environmental costs associated with their creation, operation and maintenance. Emerging global trends to make buildings more efficient, effective and sustainable, led to the question can one establish how sustainable existing buildings are? Building rating tools like LEED, BREEAM and Green Star, can already be used to rate and certify buildings in terms of their environmental performance and sustai
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Jackson, Etta Delores. "The Role of Geospatial Information and Effective Partnerships in the Implementation of the International Agenda for Sustainable Development." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1594291234482502.

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Pettey, Ryan Patrick. "Hartbeespoortdam butterfly conservancy an ecological splurge /." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2004. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05282004-085314.

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Wade, Richard Peter. "A systematics for interpreting past structures with possible cosmic references in Sub-Saharan Africa." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2009. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05052009-174557/.

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Reece, Jason William. "In Pursuit of a Just Region: The Vision, Reality and Implications of the Sustainable Communities Initiative." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1468971589.

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Blore, Murray. "Sustainable development : the adoption of principles of sustainable development by the architecture and construction industry of South Africa." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/2638.

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Sustainable development has been variously defined as: "the simultaneous pursuit of economic prosperity, environmental quality, and social equity" (Gissen 2002:185), and as society's ability to meet its current needs and fulfil its greatest potential without compromising its ability to address its needs and potentials in the future (WCED 1987). It is a far reaching concept which calls for action by the entire spectrum of society. It implies a focus on more than just financial profits, and is more holistic and systemic than simple environmentalism. Approaches to the subject differ depending on
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Loots, Maria J. "Application of assessment tools in sustainable-architecture design processes in South Africa." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/6864.

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Tickley, Laila. "Context as an architectural design generator : a proposed arts centre in Durban, South Africa." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/7713.

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In modern times it has become common practice for architects to work freely around the globe, Japanese architects in Italy or Italians in China, as universal connections are made easier through modern means of transport. The aspects of identity and culture are important to designers which can be seen in many cities that have long and sustained pasts evident in their architectural traditions and commonly expressed within their historic centers. These are been lost as people are changing the way they perceive and envision their surroundings as globalisation is forcibly imposing global cultures u
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Gaibee, Khatija. "An investigation into the outlook business travellers to South Africa have towards a green hotel." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/17748.

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A research report submitted to the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of the Witwatersrand, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Building (Property Development and Management).<br>This study investigated the outlook business travellers to and within South Africa have towards green hotels. The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which greenness affects consumers in South Africa. This was achieved by reviewing literature related to green hotels and consumers’ attitudes towards green products and its competitiv
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Ekpo, Christiana Okobi. "Investigating the responses of architectural programmes in South African universitites of technology curricula to sustainable building practices." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/13984.

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M.Tech. (Architectural Technology)<br>Curricular changes in architectural studies are necessary to allow for the incorporation of newer concepts and ideas which will equip graduates with the skills required for contemporary professional practice. This study was carried out to investigate the incorporation of sustainable building (SB) knowledge into the undergraduate curricula of Departments of Architecture at Universities of Technology in South Africa. The study rationale, current status of sustainable building teaching to diploma students, levels of awareness and training in sustainability as
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Steyn, Cornelia J. "Investigating selected retrofitted and reused buildings in Johannesburg to determine their economic and environmental impact." 2014. http://encore.tut.ac.za/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?sp=1000963.

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M. Tech. Architectural Technology<br>This research project focuses on determining the costs involved in applying energy efficient green technologies and sustainable principles to Johannesburg's existing commercial building stock. Although South Africa is committed to contributing toward greenhouse gas reduction in terms of the Kyoto Protocol, such contribution unfortunately occurs at a slow pace. Although the current built environment is identified as a key element in the mitigation of climate change, developers and building owners argue that the associated costs remain the largest drawback. R
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Nhlozi, Mduduzi W. "Towards a sustainable green space system: understanding planning and management dynamics in the City of Johannesburg." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/12885.

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The notion of green infrastructure brings a new dynamic for dealing with urban problems in a way that responsively addresses urban problems while at the same maintaining the ecological integrity of the natural environment. Key to the notion of green infrastructure is the need to integrate and link green areas with built infrastructure in planning and development processes. Green infrastructure suggests that to achieve sustainable development in urban landscapes, green spaces should be planned for and managed as infrastructure and must be conceived of and understood as a genuinely possible mean
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Goussard, Marthinus Hermanus Johannes. "The design of a centre for resilient urban food systems in Sunnyside, Pretoria." 2014. http://encore.tut.ac.za/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?sp=1001506.

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M. Tech. Architecture (Professional)<br>A substantial proportion of the African population is deprived of access to safe and reliable food. Many people in Tshwane currently live with long-term malnutrition, seeing that food insecurity is growing most rapidly in formal urban areas, referred to as food deserts, due to their limited access to food. Designing urban environments for local food security has become imperative. This dissertation presents the design of a research centre to promote a resilient urban food systems in Sunnyside, Pretoria. A combination of high- and low-intensity cultivatio
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Nibakuze, Noella. "The post-occupancy evaluation of a green star SA certified building in order to determine the internal environmental quality effectiveness." Thesis, 2013. http://encore.tut.ac.za/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?sp=1000537.

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Thesis (MTech. degree in Architectural Technology)--Tshwane University of Technology, 2013.<br>The aim of this study was to conduct a Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) of a Green Star SA certified office building in order to determine to what extent this building performs in terms of the Internal Environmental Quality (IEQ) from the perspective of the occupants as well as the effect of POE on the occupants' health and productivity. The objectives were to measure employees' satisfaction with the IEQ in a green building; to determine whether the health of the occupants is satisfactory in a green b
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Harrison, Peter Carleton. "A critical analysis of how Independent Power Producers (IPP’s) can help to secure a sustainable future for post-mining towns in South Africa through new models of architectural practices, to promote the renewal of architecture as a means of creating new realities and being drivers of sustainable change." Thesis, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/26514.

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Thesis is submitted in partial fulfilment for the degree of Master of Architecture to the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2018<br>This thesis aims to understand the role that Independent Power Producers (IPP’s) can play in the renewal of architectural firms in creating new realities and how these firms can once again become drivers of social change. Kathu (Northern Cape), a steel mining town, is facing the reality that it will have to survive without a mining house and the community fund
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Boniface, Dean. "Productive minescape : the rehabilitative and productive relationship between architecture, an open cast mining landscape and the subsistence farming communities, Mogalakwena, Limpopo." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/10305.

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M.Tech. (Architectural Technology)<br>This project is an architectural response to a setting shared by an active open cast platinum mine and the surrounding rural traditional subsistence farming communities located in the Mogalakwena municipality, Limpopo Province. The area is characterised by its mine waste landscape and large open cast pits, all of which are remnants of the process of open cast mining. The Mogalakwena communities’ economic livelihood is largely dependent on agricultural land. This land is reducing, partly due to the establishment and expansion of the mine and partly to the i
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Maphumulo, Mfundo Archibald. "An urban-agricultural hub, Umngeni, Durban." Thesis, 2008. http://encore.tut.ac.za/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?sp=1000512.

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Thesis (MTech. degree in Architecture: Professional)--Tshwane University of Technology, 2008.<br>The aim of this dissertation is to design an urban-agricultural building to facilitate small scale intensive farming on the edge of the city of Durban. The buildings assume the typology of a vertical farm which has been named the 'ZED' farm, 'ZED' being dichotomous. Firstly the term has been borrowed from Bill Dunster Architects who coined the acronym 'ZED' (Zero Energy Development), which is one of the project's inherent objectives. The second meaning of 'ZED' is a translation of the building's ma
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Mercer, Francois. "A suburban cultivation school addressing the rehabilitation of a waste landscape in Roodepoort." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/9785.

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M.Tech. (Architectural Technology)<br>This dissertation explores my own neighbourhood – Roodepoort. It critically examines consumerist lifestyles which currently dominate the area and proposes an architectural intervention which will showcase new modes of living. The proposed building accommodates a cultivation school and a ‘hackerspace’ where residents of Roodepoort can learn to live more sustainable. The cultivation school recalls Roodepoort’s history as a farming area and celebrates the area’s spirit of place. The hackerspace provides a place for suburban inventors to work and collaborate.
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Leuta, Tsepang Cecilia. "Reconceptualising cemetery planning in South Africa: assessing the potentials for approaches informed by social-ecological resilience principles." Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/24012.

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A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Thesis is submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2017<br>Cemeteries consume vast amounts of land and contest with other land uses deemed more urgent; yet they are rarely addressed in international policy dialogues. They are generally not viewed as part of the open-space system and are mostly mono-functional. Resilience thinking has become an impor
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