This Situation Brief outlines the Status Quo of achieving net zero carbon building targets in South Africa. It considers the importance of net zero carbon buildings, the positions of international and local organisations and the progress made towards net zero carbon buildings in South Africa. Finally, it identifies key gaps that must be dealt with in order to develop consensus on the pathway towards NZC Buildings in South Africa. (Gardner, 2020).

The primary purpose of this document is to investigate whether or not the EDGE tool can be used as a deemed to satisfy tool for SANS10400-XA (Solid Green, 2020).

The Net Zero Carbon Building Policy goal is to achieve a reduction in the energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions of the built environment by reworking the way buildings are planned, designed and erected. This note can be used by Cities either an annex to the Policy or it is incorporated into the introduction (Pegasys, 2020).

This a Roadmap that presents the key activities required by the City to achieve net zero carbon buildings by 2030. The activities highlighted in the roadmap and the corresponding approaches are pragmatic, innovative, and flexible and will be adapted to the global and local context as well as to the evolving national and legal landscape, when and if required (Pegasys, 2020).

The model calculates electricity consumption and electricity-related emissions from buildings in the residential and commercial sectors for different policy scenarios (business as usual, SANS and local by-laws), based on information entered in the Inputs sheet (SEA, 2019).

This document provides supporting notes to the net zero carbon building policy with regards to the economic impacts of renewable energy (SEA, 2019).

This document provides supporting notes to the net zero carbon building policy with regards to the financial impacations for property developers (SEA, 2019).

This report explores the question whether the inclusion of the term ‘building regulations in Schedule 4, Part B of the Constitution materially affects the national government’s power to regulate buildings and building standards and, to the extent that it does affect that power, does it give a power to regulate buildings to local government, i.e. municipalities? (Pegasys, 2018).

This Excel-based model provides cumulative discounted capital (construction and PV) and electricity costs for different building types (residential, office, retail, school) for standard buildings, energy efficient buildings and energy efficient buildings with rooftop PV. Various inputs can be adjusted to test the financial case for green buildings. (SEA, 2018)

This note identifies the legal issues related to the promotion of SSEG, explores the legal uncertainties that need to be clarified in this work and suggests a set of way forward and actions necessary to achieve the legal certainty needed to roll out SSEG at scale in South African municipalities (Pegasys, 2018).