MAGC Main Phase
The largest high-resolution study of residential apartment consumption of electricity and water.
This is the largest high-resolution study of residential apartments and their water and electricity consumption ever undertaken in South Africa.
The MAGC study collects intraday electricity and water consumption at the meter level, along with payment data, for over 58,000 apartments in Gauteng, Cape Town, and eThekwini. The apartments are either Edge certified, or SANS 10400 XA or SANS 10400 XA2 certified.
This metering data is combined with building and apartment characteristic data, weather records, solar radiation data, and electricity and water supply interruption records. Furthermore, just over 5 800 apartments participate in a two wave, two-year panel survey to recover socioeconomic data of households living in these apartments.
The primary focus is to understand how apartments constructed according to a green building standard, “Edge” perform in terms of grid electricity and water consumption compared to apartments built according to the South African building standard, SANS 10400 XA / 2.
However, this study also enables researchers to understand how building standards, on-site utilities engineering, socioeconomic factors, and prices interact to influence electricity and water consumption, and how these factors relate to the well-being of tenants.
