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The ‘Building well’ seminar series concluded on Tuesday 16 October with a session entitled, Getting Practical. It was indeed a fitting way to end, as this series opened up all participants’ eyes as to the urgency of designing more sustainable (session 1 & 2) and the possibilities of how to do so (session 3 & [...]

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What do I need to support me in order to become a more sustainable built environment professional? This is the question that opened the fourth session of Dendrite’s ‘Building well’ seminar series. All participants partnered up with one other person and got 3 minutes to share their ideas while the other person listened before the [...]

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So climate change is a reality, water scarcity in the Western Cape a big risk, urbanisation an accelerating international trend and Cape Town still sit with pronounced economic inequality. Now what?
According to Sym van der Ryn, “the environmental crisis is a design crisis. It is a consequence of how things are made, buildings are constructed, [...]

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Things really kicked into gear on Thursday night (4/10/2007) at the second session of the seminar series. The title of the session was ‘Overview of the Implications of Urbanisation and Other Ecological System Pressures’. A bold title, but the exceptional triumvirate of speakers, covered this topic brilliantly and left participants with much to digest.
First was [...]

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Tuesday night (2/01/2007) saw the kick-off of our ‘How do we build well in a fundamentally changing climate’ seminar series. The title of the first session was ‘An overview of climate change and its implications’. We were fortunate to have two speakers who are both experts on this issue in the persons of Peter Willis [...]

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A thinking space for forward-looking building professionals
Systemic environmental challenges and especially climate change have recently been pushed onto the local and global agenda as never before. Yet, despite all the attention, for most people outside the scientific community a great deal of uncertainty still remains as to what is actually happening, how it may impact [...]

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