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The retrofit maths on Johannesburg's ageing office stock
Payback periods, vacancy risk and what actually gets financed.
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Ports and rail are the green economy's hidden dependency
A logistics engineer on why export-oriented green industry fails at the quayside.
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Embodied carbon enters the tender documents
Two provincial departments add embodied-carbon criteria to construction procurement.
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Municipal infrastructure grant spend: the delivery-rate picture
Where allocated capital converts into built assets, and where it does not.
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Precinct-scale energy sharing clears its first regulatory hurdle
A mixed-use development is approved to trade electricity between its own buildings.
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Why green premiums show up in rent but not in valuation
Certified buildings command higher rentals. Cap rates have not followed, and the reason is data.
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Maintenance is the cheapest decarbonisation programme in the country
A facilities engineer on the abatement sitting in plant nobody has serviced since 2019.
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Cement and steel substitution enters public tender specifications
Two large infrastructure packages allow lower-carbon material alternatives.
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Servitude acquisition: the six-month step nobody budgets for
Land access sequencing across three recent linear infrastructure projects.
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TerraFirm Green Building launches Green building offering for the South African market
New capability targets Building operators looking to reduce cost and exposure.
TerraFirm Green Building: Green building case study from a Western Cape installation
Measured outcomes from a commissioned project, supplied by the advertiser.
Product spotlight: TerraFirm Green Building's Green building range
Specification, deployment footprint and support model.
TerraFirm Green Building expands Green building capacity in Cape Town
Additional capacity aimed at shortening lead times for Building clients.
Buyer's guide: choosing a Green building partner
What to ask, what to specify and where projects most often go wrong.
TerraFirm Green Building publishes Green building performance data
Twelve months of operating data released to the market.
TerraFirm Green Building adds financing options to its Green building offering
Structures aimed at removing the upfront capital barrier.
Inside TerraFirm Green Building's Green building delivery model
How the team scopes, builds and hands over.
TerraFirm Green Building announces Building partnership
A joint offering aimed at the Western Cape market.