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Green Certifications: What Options Are Available And Why Do They Matter?

Green Building Rating and Certificates Buildings have a big- impact on our environment & health. Because they use water, energy, & raw material, they generate waste & potentially emit-toxins into the environment. Through various standards & certifications that outline integrated design-processes & sustainability this harmful-impact can be minimize & mitigated, allowing us to create buildings that are environmentally responsible & are source efficient through their life-cycle. This integrated-process begin with the design and ongoing through the construction, maintenance and operation, renovation, and ends with demolition. Through every stage the rating-system has rules regulation that has performance-argets for the buildings to meet. various rating programs will have different meed, or they will aim on meeting-different attributes in order for the certification to be awarded. What they have in common though, is that they are all designed to minimize

How does the Estidama Dubai Lease Contract work?

In the Arabic language, “Estidama” is the word for sustainability. The EstidamaCertification   is a key-part of the “Abu Dhabi Vision 2030”. Estidamais a building-design methodology that will allow buildings to be constructed and also operated-sustainably. Even if EstidamaCertification took its root in dubai, Estidamais at time under work in all the emirates of the UAE. Inlast, to achieve a trade-license for any mainland-businesses in Dubai and the UAE, they had to rent a physical-office-space. The office had to be a reducse size of 200 square feet according to the Department of Economic Development in Dubai, UAE. After a business had rented such office-space, officials from the Department of Economic Development in Dubai, UAE would come and inspect the office. If they allow of the space, only then they would issue a trade-license. However, Current time the Department of Economic Development in Dubai, UAE started to permit small size of businesses to rent virtual-offices and stil

HOW GREEN BUILDINGS PROVIDE BETTER INDOOR AIR QUALITY?

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  Indoor air quality (IAQ) plays a major part in the wellbeing of people residing in the building. A conventional-home-built without   green building considerations will have emissions that may impact the health and wellbeing of the individuals. Some of the common-factors that impact the quality of inside air are: - 1.      VOC emissions from indoor finishes such as coatings/paints, sealants & adhesives, formaldehyde emission from furnished products other; 2.      Contaminants in the best quality air supplied by mechanica- ventilation-systems; 3.      Air pollution due to usage of tobacco-products inside the building in a mechanical ventilated-space; 4.      Pollutants accumulated in the mechanical-ventilation-systems such as ducts, FCU/BCU, VAV/CAV, AHU’s during construction due to poor-practices during construction.All the above mentioned factors affect the quality of indoor air quality which as a output impact the health of the individuals. HOW GREEN BUILDINGS GIVE B

What is Focus Areas of Green Buildings in Dubai?

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The term sustainability has obtained a lot of attention world widely, especially in the UAE cities like Abu Dhabi, Madar City & Dubai for the last 10 years. Sustainable-projects tend to grow interests in every sector of living. So every Government-starts to develop concepts to minimize all no recycle wastes & conserve-natural-resources.  Adu Dhabi’s Pearl Rating System is one of the most worldwide acclaimed Green Building Rating Systems. It has created drastic changes in the Building and Construction business sectors of the Dubai, UAE. Dubai Global Sustainability Assessment System also impacted the globally Green concept of Sustainable Living.  Do you know the construction of any buildings/home directly-impacts the environment and eco system? As the real-estate sector boost far more than before in the Middle-East, LEED Certification is essential for any Building Construction within Dubai, UAE. During the development, demolition or renovation, there is a tonne usage of wa