Emirates Green Building Council workshop discusses sustainable challenges in high-rise buildings

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Emirates Green Building Council workshop discusses sustainable challenges in high-rise buildings

Highlighting its support to the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week and also as Industry Supporter of the World Future Energy Summit 2016, Emirates Green Building Council (EmiratesGBC), an independent discussion forum targeted at preserving the atmosphere by strengthening and also promoting environment-friendly structure practices, held a seminar on 'Renewable Energy Technologies for High-Rise Buildings.'.

With the UAE's sky line controlled by skyscrapers, with Dubai along being the home of over 3000 high-rise buildings in 30 kilometres span, [1] the EmiratesGBC workshop addressed several of the existing difficulties the sector faces when aiming to set up renewable energy innovations in high-rise buildings. The workshop talked about the opportunities as well as challenges for mounting renewable resource systems in skyscrapers with a collective concentrate on the style and also building retrofit approaches utilized to get over these challenges.

Saeed Al Abbar, Chairman of EmiratesGBC, claimed: "According to the Council on Tall Buildings as well as Urban Habitat, the UAE hosts over 66 per cent of the complete current variety of high-rises in the center East area, so it is necessary that we pay special focus to this sort of building. If we intend to promote power effectiveness in metropolitan atmospheres, we should recognize the challenges associated with retrofitting the facades as well as MEP systems of existing buildings to make them much more lasting in addition to integrating renewable energy modern technologies into the structure".

At the workshop, individuals identified awareness, siting issues, codes and monetary schemes as the bottom lines to be addressed for the prevalent use of renewable resource systems on high-rise buildings. Discussions showed that renewable power requirements must not just be efficiency- based however additionally outcome-based to ensure the reduction of energy consumption as well as adoption of affordable energy effectiveness procedures.

"As an independent online forum advertising sustainability, we are constantly seeking methods to associate with all industry stakeholders to give standards and guidelines to facilitate sustainable development. The World Future Energy Summit offered the ideal platform for us to share our know-how in the building sector and also talk about with our peers ways to execute vital sustainability and also eco-friendly innovations into the building and also retrofit of high-rise buildings," Al Abbar put.

EmiratesGBC consistently hosts and also joins international occasions, seminars and forums. The organization has likewise developed a collection of tasks, inclusive of networking occasions, technological workshops, focus days as well as facilitated training based around certain concerns connected to the built-environment that satisfy the demands of its members, of the UAE area, and the wider Middle East.