How the FynBloem Packing Facility used TABS to cut Electricity costs

The Thermally Activated Building System employed at FynBloem cut down electricity costs significantly. 

Cape Town based architects KUBE recently completed a sustainable Protea packing facility in Riviersonderend. One of the methods employed towards greening the building is called TABS...

FynBloem Update: Practical Completion

Practical Completion has been achieved at FynBloem, a first-of-its-kind Protea Packing Facility in Riviersonderend designed by Cape Town architects KUBE. The client, a South African and Danish partnership have been exporting Proteas to the United Kingdom and Europe for a number of years under the Fynbloem brand. Previously the product was transported via airfreight but now, in an endeavour to reduce the carbon footprint and cost, our client is looking at sea freight as an alternative - an entirely new concept for this type of product, resulting in a new set of challenges.

You can read up about this project and see more images here.

KUBE architecture is now Competent and Registered: SANS10400XA

A first-of-its-kind FynBloem Sustainable Protea Packing Facility in Riviersonderend. You can read more about this project here. 

Cape Town based architectural practice, KUBE architecture is now capable of acting in the capacity of Competent Persons with regard to the new SANS10400XA Energy legislation. What this means is that we are able to perform Rational Designs according to the Regulation and Standards, and make use of the Deemed-to-Satisfy route for compliance...

Fynbloem Update: Cracking the Social Code of Sustainability

So why are we writing about people when this is blog is about architecture? People who aren't even celebrities...It all started back in 1987 when a couple of really smart people gathered at an event known as the Brundtland Commission of the United Nations. Sustainable development was defined as development which meets the needs of the current generation without jeopardizing the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Sustainability as a term is commonly used to collect all the trendy carelessly tossed about terminology such as environmentally friendly, green, organic etc. etc., but it doesn't end there, in 2005 at the UN World Summit, it was noted that sustainability required satisfying environmental, social and economic criteria.