Envirolink : Green Building Consultant

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...

The Pearl Rating system (PRS) acknowledges that with every stage of the project of the project design-construction and finally facilities - there are different responsibilities-associated with it and hence have to be rated accordingly. Keeping this reality in check, 3-rating stages have been put in place - 1.      Design 2.      Construction 3.      Operational. A key point to be noted here is that Estidama Certification assure that the performance of a building or facility, post completion & handover, is behaving as it was designed to. LEED, on the other-hand, does not account for this. Think of it like a student learning for an exam, only for a passing marks. AKA mugging up facts. There’s no real cost(Value) in the grade besides a piece of paper /document that confirms you have passed in Exam. With the Estidama certification, organization cannot get away with it on the sly. Simply having products/item specified...