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The Holcim Foundation publishes an international series of monographs showcasing outstanding examples of sustainable construction to promote best practice, pioneer fresh solutions, and inspire architects, engineers, planners, developers and contractors to adopt sustainable parameters for their building projects.
 Development Alternatives world headquarters - Office building in India
Tsoga Environmental Center - Community center in South Africa
Eawag Forum Chriesbach - Research center in Switzerland
Measuring up to the criteria of sustainable construction - Office building in Costa Rica
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| A model urban building – Development Alternatives world headquarters, India
The project is a showcase of traditional, environmentally efficient construction materials and systems that can be economically developed for low-energy mass production and adopted by the mainstream building industry, especially in developing countries.
The new office building tests innovative, specially designed elements and components such as a hybrid air-handling unit that incorporates evaporative cooling and refrigerant-based cooling in a new way to reduce energy consumption for air conditioning by 30 percent. Water consumption is also substantially reduced, recycled and used for irrigation or to recharge groundwater.
 Office building in India (PDF, 8.3MB)
 Book announcement (PDF, 22KB)
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 | | Community center in South Africa - improving quality of life – through architecture
A community-service and recycling facility situated in a poverty-stricken informal settlement of Cape Town applied a formal methodology for sustainable construction to achieve far more than just the creation of a new building. The book explains how the center respects the Rio Agenda of balanced social, environmental, and economic performance, and at the same time defines a new vernacular architectural language and also provides a model of sustainable building in low-income communities.
Community center in South Africa – booklet (PDF, 8.7MB)
Book announcement (PDF, 24KB)
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