South Africa: Bank aims for 5-star green-rated Rosebank building
Financial services group Standard Bank, which is typically associated with its blue brand identity, aims to achieve a five-star green rating for its modern customer service office in Rosebank that will open in May 2013, says Standard Bank Corporate and Investment Banking Real Estate head Stewart Shaw-Taylor. The building has already received a five-star as-designed green rating from the Green Building Council of South Africa. The group is confident that it will achieve a four-star as-built rating with-in two years of occupying the 65000 m2 building. Standard Bank Real Estate Asset Management head Rory Roriston explains that the Green Building Council of South Africa provides as-designed ratings for buildings, but developers must have the building audited to receive an as-built rating, which tests the design parameters against the physical measurements of a building's performance. The new office, on the corner of Oxford and Bolton roads, also has a trigeneration plant with a production capacity of 1 MW of energy, which contributes to the electricity, heating and cooling for the building.