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 ...

AL Safat Certification is launched by Dubai City Municipality. Al Safat Certifcation   will support residents and commercial save their energy bills on the long run. Under the new project system, AL Safat Certification has become compulsory for all Dubai buildings project (Commercial & Residential) to follow green-infrastructure through getting requirements for minimum bronze certification .However, building owner are encouraged to apply for elements to qualify for three remaining categories of platinum, gold & silver that will improve environmental advantage and save more energy. The new building rating system, which will go in action in September, will assure structures are environmentally responsible, resource efficient and produce less carbon-emissions. The green building code has been introduced since 2011 year where more than % of new buildings in Dubai have already became green. But since March-2014 until June-2016, the Building Department licensed more than 16,...

The Building construction wave in Dubai, UAE will no-more be aimed on breaking records only, as a new building ranking system will encourage builders to implement more & more ‘green building’ solutions for ranking higher with “Al Safat Certification system”. Dubai Municipality corporation Director General Mr. Hussain Nasser Lootah launched the new Building system , introducing   that new buildings that do not meet the minimum ‘green’ criteria will not be cleared for usage. In Arabaic language, Safat stands for date palm-fronds and is a reminder of the traditional usage of palm-fronds as roofing that support building interiors stay cool in the desert-heat. Taking a cue from the past, authorities are encouraging, & now binding, builders (Contractor) to include sustainable-solutions in building-construction that support save invaluable-resources like water & harnessing the abundant potential of solar-energy. Al Safat’s target in the next 5 years include a 18-22% reduc...