No more fighting for air conditioning thanks to termites

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Are you sick and tired of arguing with your office mates for the air conditioning? Do not despair: the solution lies with the termites. In Easter mall in Harare, Zimbabwe, there is a well-known building in architecture: the Eastgate Centre. It covers half a block and combines an office complex with a shopping mall. Like the african termite mounds Macrotermes michaelseni, Eastgate mall is ventilated, heated and cooled by entirely natural resources...