Envirolink : Green Building Consultant

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 ...

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 ...

  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 qua...

  Largest sustainable building in the Estidama programme obtain 3 Pearl Design Rating & becomes a regional standard for sustainable airport design 03 Sep 2013 , Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates At a ceremony held earlier, Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council (UPC) awarded Abu Dhabi Airports Company’s Midfield Terminal-Building project, currently the largest sustainable building in the Estidama Certification, with a Three Pearl Design Rating from the Estidama Pearl Building Rating System (PBRS). The Estidama Pearl Rating System is a management system for sustainable building design, construction and life cycle operation for communities, villas and buildings. Estidama Certification   is a programme developed by the UPC, which was conceived to promote a new mind-set that reflects the intellectual-legacy of the late Mr. Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan and his visionary governance in promoting thoughtful and responsible development through the creation of a balanced-societ...