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Is Green Architecture a new Trend to follow?

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Permalink Reply by Wisani Benjamin Manganye on May 17, 2011 at 11:20am

I think Green Architecture could play great role if it is fully understood from all angles, that is in respect to the use of materials, the environment, perfomance of existing products vs economic perfomance. The battle is about whether an electric car can replace a car running on Oil/Fuel...the question is what do you do with the existing model of constructing a building together..what happens to those various sectors which supply materials which are seen as a hazard to the environment? its taking them out of business...the debate should start at the level of material supply and long term economic perfomance of various building products......when you cut down a tree to build a roof structure an environmentalist cries foul, when you mine steel/aluminium there is a question of waste water deriving from smelters etc...with nuclear power there is a question of waste management...Solar power vs inconsistant Climate change..All in all everything needs to be brought to a manageable level ..in terms of cost to rehabilitate hazard building materials..or where natural resourses are mined and to introduce a cost effective recycleable process..of energy

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Permalink Reply by Transparence on May 19, 2011 at 5:17am

Thanks for sharing very informative insights on our discussion...we are completely agree to your point of unbalance in material supply or use of traditional and modern modal of construction...we believe the green architecture is the best practice in any era of human being and only sustainability can solve all futuristic problems...so thanks again for your contribution to our topic...keep in touch

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Permalink Reply by Wisani Benjamin Manganye on May 24, 2011 at 1:07pm

Its a pleasure and thanks to you as well for raising this matter, hope others will add their views as well. we also wish to see these kind of debates to be initiated in various States on a high Priority level so that balance is effected across board.

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Permalink Reply by Wisani Benjamin Manganye on May 26, 2011 at 2:57am

Just need to share the Communique of the Commitments made by the 2005 Glenagles gathering of the Group of 8, in respect to Climage change.

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Permalink Reply by Karma Rose on October 19, 2011 at 1:15am

Hi there,

Nice to see you are doing some graet work with some pretty simple yett effective concepts!

Is your business still up and running? (One of your feeds suggested that you were currently out of a job) Are you currently based in JHB? Would you be able to do some consulting for us?

Look forward to hearing from you.

K Rose

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Permalink Reply by M. Prabhakar Rao on October 19, 2011 at 1:22am

Hi Rose,

Send me your detailed requirement to prabhakar@greentekindika.com

Thanks & Regards,

Prabhakar.

E: http://greentekindika.com

M: +91-8686559189

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Permalink Reply by Wisani Benjamin Manganye on January 14, 2013 at 1:02pm

Hi K Rose

thanks for the follow up, i have logged to this site for a while, my apologies for the delayed response, I have recently had to take a break from my business as i was not making a profit, or rather i was running at a loss to to lack of support and relaxed laws regarding architectural fees.Things are much better now.

regards

WBM

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Permalink Reply by Faizan Ahmad on June 19, 2011 at 12:32pm

I will say " Green Architecture is a Good trend to follow" rather than "Green Architecture is a New Trend to follow". As far as I know green architecture has been taken into account since the very first time of the construction. I must say Green Architecture is actually Nature Architecture and everybody feels good to be in nature.