AfriSam-SAIA Award for Sustainable Architecture + Innovation winners announced

“The recipients of the various awards have demonstrated that if we each take responsibility in shifting our own behaviour, we can trigger the type of change that is necessary to achieve sustainability for human other organisms on our planet. They have taught us that we can change our planet, our environment and our humanity every day, every year, every decade, and every millennium,” said Niraksha Singh, AfriSam raw materials and sustainability manager.

Singh formed part of the esteemed adjudicator panel for the AfriSam-SAIA Award for Sustainable Architecture + Innovation for 2017/18.

She was joined by Maryke Cronje, 2018 president of the South African Institute of Architecture (SAIA), Dr Sechaba Maape (sustainability architecture academic and architect), Philippa Tumubweinee (academic and co-founder of IZUBA INafrica Architects), Dr Emmanuel Nkambule (academic with particular interest in the social environment) and Richard Stretton (founder of architecture and furniture design studio Koop Design).

The awarded projects in each of the categories are as follows:

House Burnett Prinsloo by Robert de Jager

Category A – Sustainable Architecture:

• House Burnett Prinsloo by Robert de Jager, Architect; 
• Fulham Heights by Local Studio; 
• House Gardiner by Simply Sustainable; and
• RBDIZ Entrance Gate by Jeremy Steere Architect 

Category B – Research in Sustainability:

• A framework for a green infrastructure planning approach in the Gauteng City-Region by Gauteng City-Region Observatory

Rambrick by Use It Waste Beneficiation (RF) NPC

Category C - Sustainable Products & Technology:

• Rambrick by Use It Waste Beneficiation (RF) NPC; and
• hearScreen by hearX Group

The Wilds – revitalising a forgotten public space by James Delaney

Category D – Sustainable Social Programmes:

• Silindokuhle Preschool by Collectif saga; and
• The Wilds – revitalising a forgotten public space by James Delaney