Dubai Municipality investment of $816m to improve sustainability by 2025

RELATED ARTICLES: Dubai Expo 2020 to be 'greenest' in event history| Dubai Expo 2020 to kick off 'renaissance' for MENA region| Dubai Municipality steps...

Construction

Vision 20/20 – Smart Glass

2013 was a year of ‘more’ – more exhibitors at The Big 5, more visitors at Cityscape Global, more mega-projects undertaken and...

Construction

Siemens opens LEED Platinum HQ at Masdar City

Electronics giant Siemens inaugurated its “showcase” Middle East headquarters, Abu Dhabi’s first LEED Platinum building. A large crowd of stakeholders, VIPs and...

Construction

Tender for Sustainable City to be issued in Feb 2014

Diamond Developers will issue a $82 million contract for construction within their $299 million Sustainably City project in Dubailand, UAE. "We will...

Construction

Abu Dhabi government body awarded for environmental excellence

The Centre of Waste Management - Abu Dhabi (CWM) won the Green Middle East Award for Environmental Excellence for 'Natural Resource Conservation'...

Construction

“Sustainability cannot be an afterthought” – DuPont

RELATED ARTICLES: Empower to build first green plant in region | Dubai's TCI rated as world's most sustainable commercial building | Emirates GBC...

Interviews

Trend Setter

[caption id="attachment_15019" align="aligncenter" width="450"] Joerg Scheifler says that Qatar is showing the way forward for sustainability in the region.[/caption] Ever since Sepp...

Experts

A look at LEED 4.0

With press pass in hand and several more barrels of carbon credits burnt, this past month afforded me the opportunity to visit...

Features

Here for Good

[caption id="attachment_13833" align="aligncenter" width="450"] Standard Chartered's new headquarters in Dubai aims to be a benchmark for sustainability.[/caption] At first glance, the new...

Construction

‘Green is go’ for Dubai’s first solar powered mosque

[caption id="attachment_13057" align="aligncenter" width="451"] Al Arif Contracting will build a green mosque in Bur Saeed, Dubai.[/caption] RELATED ARTICLES: Qatar to launch first...