Using waste materials for thermal insulation, growing bio-building materials with reused carbon dioxide and bacteria, a renewable energy planning app and energy trading platform, and evaluating water efficiency measures to reduce water scarcity impacts. This is part two of a two-part article.
Making a name for themselves as innovators, change-makers and planet-shapers, the winners of the 2023 Greenovate Student Awards are:
Engineering winners:
- First – Julian Banks, University of Cape Town: Design of an autonomous energy management agent for a hybrid microgrid.
- Second – Willem Barnard and Arnold van der Merwe, North West University: Renewable energy planning app and energy trading platform.
- Third – Tiffany Moodley, University of Pretoria: Enhancement of a hot water accumulator by varying volume fraction and maintaining a constant surface area of phase change material.
Property winners:
- First – Aiden van Wyk and Isobella van der Merwe, University of Cape Town: An investigation into the benefits of EDGE-certified residential estates in terms of real-world savings.
- Second – Sindisiwe Kalumba and Hannah Volker, University of Cape Town: An examination of the uptake of net zero buildings in the South African commercial property market.
- Third – Riyaadh Dawood, Sechaba Mohlabeng and Xihluke Shivambu, University of the Witwatersrand: The utilisation of eggshells as a partial replacement for cement in concrete.
IFC Edge prize – Mahima Maharaj, University of Cape Town: Growing bio-building materials from CO2.
Proptech winners:
- First – Oelinga by Songo Didiza and Zadok Olinga
- Second – Kaizen by Rob Whiteley
- Third – Learn Base Energy by Mokete Ratlabala
Source: Contributed by Growthpoint Properties