Diamond miner De Beers’ new tough diamond sorting, valuation and gross sales constructing Sky Park, in Johannesburg, has obtained a five-star inside inexperienced score and two four-star inexperienced constructing scores from the Inexperienced Constructing Council of South Africa (GBCSA).
The scores have been awarded for the sustainable design parts proposed and permitted by the GBCSA, in addition to the ‘As-Construct’ score that evaluates using inexperienced and sustainable supplies in the course of the development section. The waste, water, and energy administration methods applied throughout development have been additionally recognised as a part of these awards.
The five-star inside inexperienced score was awarded for the sustainable decisions made for the constructing’s interiors, together with the collection of ecofriendly supplies for furnishings and furnishings, superior water consumption programs and the mixing of inside gardens.
The evaluation additionally thought-about the constructing’s power effectivity, highlighted by the set up of a photo voltaic plant and water administration programs.
“Reaching the inexperienced star constructing scores for the Sky Park constructing affirms [De Beers’] dedication to creating areas that harmonise environmental duty with innovation,” De Beers Sightholder Gross sales South Africa (DBSSSA) senior gross sales and workplace supervisor Richard Steenkamp stated on July 22.
In January final 12 months, De Beers introduced that it was relocating its sightholder gross sales actions in South Africa from Kimberley, within the Northern Cape, the place it had been working since 1974, to Johannesburg, following a assessment of its sorting actions within the nation.
DBSSSA is a part of a worldwide sightholder gross sales community that sells tough diamonds for beneficiation functions in South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Canada. It is usually liable for the distribution of De Beers tough diamonds in South Africa and seeks to assist the diamond business in sustaining a sustainable diamond manufacturing business by means of its beneficiation technique.
The relocation helps authorities’s technique to consolidate South Africa’s mineral beneficiation sector into one space on the Gauteng Industrial Improvement Zone, near the OR Tambo Worldwide Airport.
