TO: All Business Units Of Dubai World, Their Clients, Green Building Consultants, Architectural & Engineering consultants, Contractors and relevant stakeholders
SUBJECT: Towards Practical Sustainability of the Built Environment Projects following Regulation GB-5 for New Constructions
DATE: 15 April 2015
Greetings from Trakhees-EHS!
The Sustainability department having reviewed and analyzed multitudes of projects does recognize their diversity and challenges in terms of the project configuration, stakeholder's involvement, overall awareness and of course the commitments. A positive aspect to note is the fact that on a broad scale, there is increased awareness and maturity levels in the market which is only set to increase.
Having said that, EHS is strongly of the opinion that in the long term interest of low carbon buildings, there is a need to move forward and explore areas that are becoming relevant with the passage of time even if those have not been addressed on a mandatory basis within the regulatory framework. Also w...