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Green building standards to be in place next year
Green building standards in Dubai will conform to the best international design and construction practices and will be in place early next year, Dubai Municipality said.
- Staff Report
- Published: 23:22 August 11, 2008
Dubai: Green building standards in Dubai will conform to the best international design and construction practices and will be in place early next year, Dubai Municipality said.
Eisa Al Maidour, Assistant Director-General of Dubai Municipality for Planning and Building Affairs, said the Municipality would develop in the near future a new legislative framework for green design that would be implemented in all new buildings across Dubai by January 1.
These regulations, to be developed by the municipality's buildings department in collaboration with consultants WSP, will be in line with the Dubai Strategic Plan, said Al Maidour.
Ongoing process
"It will be an ongoing process for new buildings with a tier structure and will be implemented in phases," he said in a seminar titled Build it Green: Greening of Dubai through Regulations, which came as part of the civic body's initiative to offer a continuous learning environment for local architects and consultant engineers.
The seminar was organised in association with WSP, a design, engineering and management consultancy firm.
"Building Green" in rapidly growing urban environments is emerging as a major factor in the booming Middle East real estate market, said Al Maidour.
Dubai has been expanding at a rapid pace, with an unprecedented scale of construction projects, he added.
"Growing concerns about the adverse impact of such a fast paced urbanisation have underlined the crucial need for sustainable, eco-friendly and energy-efficient property development as well as the challenge of decreasing the Emirate's ecological footprint," he said.
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