The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) School of Education (SoE) has been awarded four Green Stars by the Green Building Council South Africa (GBCSA) due to its environmentally friendly design that will also provide users with a healthy and comfortable space to study, work and play. The SoE, which is expected to be completed early in 2022, is the fourth UCT building to be certified in this regard. The others are the New Lecture Theatre on upper campus (completed in 2017), the UCT Graduate School of Business’s Academic Conference Centre on the Breakwater campus (completed in 2019) and the Avenue Residence in Mowbray (completed at the end of 2020). The main idea behind a green building is to have as little impact as possible on the surrounding ecological landscape and environment, reducing its carbon and water footprint, while providing users with a healthy and comfortable space in which to work and study.

Project Start:

2020