Stricter building standards will be imposed in Dubai next year in a bid to increase environmentally-friendly practices, Dubai Municipality have announced.
Eisa Al Maidour, assistant director-general of Dubai Municipality for Planning and Building Affairs, said planning chiefs would develop a new legislative framework for green design that would be implemented in all new buildings across Dubai by January 1.
Al Maidour said the issue of “building green” in rapidly growing urban environments is emerging as a major factor in the booming Middle East real estate market. Dubai has been expanding at a rapid pace, with an unprecedented scale of construction projects that sometimes seems to be defying forecasts by many economic experts in the region.
“Growing concerns about the adverse impact of such a fast paced urbanization have underlined the crucial need for sustainable, eco-friendly and energy efficient property development as well as the challenge of decreasing the emirate’s ecological footprint,” he noted.
He was speaking at a seminar called Build it Green: Greening of Dubai through Regulations, which came as part of the civic body’s initiative to offer a continuous learning environment for local architects and consultant engineers.
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