Taking into consideration our global and local environment has become of paramount importance, Eco Design is a practice that endeavours to create a greener architecture; a climatically, geographically and culturally appropriate method of...

Specialized practice dealing with organic design and sustainable procurement processes in Southern Africa. Involvement ranges from private/public design commissions to dissemination of information on sustainability/organic design/social...

Earth Temple’s main objective is to create architecture that is holistic. We endeavour to accomplish this by firstly honouring the chosen site and working with the natural spaces presented to us. Evolving the site is an organic process, which...

The Shaster Foundation is a non-profit organisation staffed by volunteers who care passionately about Africa, traditional culture, the environment, and respect for all peoples. The foundation offers services and programs such as adult education;...

Leila is our symbol for a sustainable lifestyle. This means we explore ways to live, with a high standard but a low cost, to ourselves, our environment and our future generations. We produce our own vegetables, organically, we keep chickens for...

Information and details of organisations in southern Africa that support the creation of a sustainable built environment.

A community website maintained by CSIR Building and Construction Technology.

Agrément South Africa serves the national interest by being the internationally acknowledged, independent South African centre serving the building and engineering communities by providing assurance to specifiers and users via technical...

Our services are based on the application of biosynergetics to sustainable design and health promotion.

We liaise with stakeholders and specialists to facilitate the evolution of dynamic strategies that are appropriate to the unique...

Our selfbuilt cob house stands on the north-west corner of the junction of Maynard and Watson Roads in Muizenberg.

We are now up and running with (as far as we know) the first organic B&B in Cape Town - organic food, natural fibre...

Built as a commercial office building for Sustainable Energy Africa and other organisations. Investors and SEA wanted to "walk the talk" and show it could be done as a commercial investment (with limited financial resources and no grant...