Sustainable Public Procurement compliance versus very scarce resources in government service delivery. A typical example would be a Durban community in need of 500 houses and the South African government do have money to build them. However, in order to comply with SPP the government must adopt and use "green houses" approach which is, in most cases uses very expensive building material. Therefore, the government must choose to build "normal" 500 houses OR build only "green" 70 houses. Will the community understand why must they get 70 houses while the money is enough to build 500 houses. Maybe, the well developed economies would survive the SPP compliance. What is your take on this ?
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Dear
Green housing usually cost less than normal housing, i am surprised with the cost mentioned in your post. The green and sustainable housing construction usually utilizes recycled construction materials, and use insulation techniques to reserve the electric energy.
Dear Saad,
Saad Sarsam thank you for your insight, maybe it depends on the country by country here in South Africa we import all that material, maybe the price is affected by Dollar/Rand exchange, however appreciated your contribution to the discussion.
Thanks
Sakhile
Prof Saad Sarsam my argument was triggered by this report commissioned by the University of Pretoria
https://www.up.ac.za/media/shared/130/ZP_Files/innovate-11_2016_green-building-cost-in-sa.zp111494.pdf
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Sakhile
Dear
The majour issue in green and sustainable housing construction is to reduce the impact on environment, reserve the natural resources by using recycled materials in new construction activities, and economy which could be reached through the previous mentioned activity.
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