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MAR 2013 ISSUE 1 EVENTS WHAT’S HAPPENING? This month, we bring you GreenA consultants’ very first digital newsletter. We hope that your 2013 has been as exciting as ours. GreenA grows from strength to strength, taking in creative, research driven and sustainability projects in diverse areas of business and engineering. This newsletter issue will focus on the green building development in countries of our presence, typically, Asia and Africa. In the mean time, pledge with us to do your bit for mother nature by reducing our carbon emission through car pooling and going public The GreenA Consultants team, …...promoting green buildings worldwide Pensez a votre environement avant d’imprimer • 4TH APRIL- EDUCATING THE YOUNGER GENERATION Environment Day at Lycee Francais de Singapour • 26 MARCH 2013 @ The Fullerton Hotel CHANNEL NEWSASIA GREEN LUMINARY AWARDS GreenA is proud to be the green knowledge partner of this event 1 Energy savings continue to be the core in many green initiatives and it is not difficult to understand why. With advantages such as operations and maintenance optimization, waste reduction and also indoor environmental quality enhancement, many companies are moving forward and finding solutions on how to transform their spaces into green havens. This is where GreenA steps in to assist you in in aligning both business and engineering solutions. Our proven methodology, a mixture of engineering and strategic thinking, maximizes the project potential and limit the risk involved in the certification. UPDATES • CONGRATULATIONS TO QI GROUP UPON RECEIVING THEIR DUAL GOLD GREEN MARK CERTIFICATION. FIRST COMPANY IN MALAYSIA TO RECEIVE DUAL CERTIFICATION. SINGAPORE • THE KIBADA PROJECT Working with the United Nations Agency for human settlements to build 200 affordable green homes for Tanzanians. • GUIDEBOOK TO SUSTAINABILITY Written by industry professionals , a comprehensive guidebook that will cover almost everything related to sustainability will be launched. Our senior partner, Farizan d’Avezac deMoran will share her knowledge and expertise in this book in relation to energy efficiency codes and green building certification. • Singapore’s Green Mark Certification label to be used in all three East African green building projects. Singapore GreenA Consultants, Singapore 54 Serangoon North Avenue 4 #06-17 Cyberhub North Singapore 555854 Tel : +65 6853 9608 Fax : +65 3125 7203 Website:www.greenaconsultants.com With support from the United Nations agency for human settlements, GreenA Consultants is working on building sustainable and affordable homes for 200 families in East Africa. Project Kibada tackles problems such as high electrical tariffs for the Tanzanians living in the town of Dar Es Salaam. All 200 landed homes will feature passive designs which would save on energy and water consumption. Apart from high electrical tariffs in Tanzania, heat may sometimes be unforgiving in this East African country. With low window to wall ratio for these homes, the need for cooling would not be an issue since each room is also ensured a window for natural ventilation and day lighting. By conceptualizing rainwater harvesting systems, we were able to turn water scarcity into water abundance. Drought tolerant plants with low water consumption would also be planted around the residence for landscaping. For a better urban future Electric tariffs in Tanzania saw an alarming increase of 40.29%1 since January ,and to help Tanzanians cope with these incremental costs, photovoltaic panels which create 8000kw/hr worth of energy were installed. These photovoltaic panels are able to create energy for common areas and light up the residential area for the whole year. 2 1 http://allafrica.com/stories/201301020034.html Besides ensuring a healthy and sustainable environment , the building and construction process in all of our projects are closely monitored to ensure that electricity, water and material wastage are kept at a minimal. Materials used are ensured to contain recycled content. After winning the much coveted Green Mark Gold award for Non-residential Existing building with help from GreenA consultants, the 15 story office tower in Petaling Jaya went and broke records, by achieving their second Gold Green Mark award for office interior. The Gold Green Mark Award is the award for building and Construction under the Green Mark scheme. Even though the QI Tower was not constructed with green and sustainability in mind , we managed to achieve two Gold Green Mark awards, making them the first building in Malaysia to obtain DUAL certification. Dual certification for the Q.I tower GREEN MILESTONES Tanzania Malaysia