Dubai Municipality organizes symposium on using mortar in green buildings

Dubai Municipality organizes symposium on using mortar in green buildings

Dubai Municipality- Dubai Central Lab Department has recently organized a scientific symposium on using mortar in green buildings. Many officials from the Municipality, Dubai Electricity and Water Authority, other municipalities of the country, trainees from General Secretariat of Municipalities and representatives of manufacturers and suppliers attended the symposium.

Eng. Hawa Abdullah Bastaki Director of Dubai Laboratory Department said that the Dubai Government endeavors to implement all environmental methods and standards in the light of the directive of Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum to implement the green building specifications as of January 2008. The civic authority has also established a modern lab to conduct necessary related tests in line with the approved international standard specifications.

According to Bastaki, some significant tests on green materials and materials from recycling the old concretes were exhibited in the symposium. These materials were intentionally manufactured to mitigate power consumption, protect natural materials, reduce the operational costs, strengthen the building performance and create a healthy environment for work and residence. "A quality mark system will be applied on the green building products" she pointed out.

The advanced technical facilities in the lab will qualify it to perform as the first lab for green materials in the civic body and Dubai city. The laboratory will also conduct tests in the sites in addition to a lot of other tests such as physical, mechanical and thermal tests.

RTA to Apply ‘Green Buildings’ to All Projects

RTA to Apply ‘Green Buildings’ to All Projects

Dubai (United Arab Emirates): Facilities & Installations Dep’t at Corporate Support Services Sector of Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) continued with the drive to implement a methodology of applying the principle of Green Buildings on all buildings and installations of the RTA.

In this regard Facilities & Installations Dep’t held several internal & external meetings to benefit from the expertise of companies specialized in rationing power consumption, and adopting Green Buildings in RTA projects, according to Baha Uddin Al Qudrah, Director of Facilities & Installations Dep’t. “Following the endorsement of its Operational Plan, which focuses on conservation & optimal utilization of resources besides adopting Green Buildings systems, the Dep’t will save no efforts to bring in the best global expertise & initiatives in reducing power consumption” he said.

“Work teams of the Dep’t held numerous meetings with the executives & engineers of leading companies in the field of reducing power consumption. These included meetings with local branches of global companies that adopt a system of controlling illumination by means of infra-red sensors to identify the products capable of conserving energy; particularly redundant lighting in unoccupied rooms.

“Besides the meetings held at the premises of the Dep’t with delegates of various companies, the Dep’t paid visits to a host of companies specialized in facilities & toilets fittings to review the latest technology trends and explore the possibility of applying them. Every meeting held with a specialized company adds more to the accumulated knowledge of the Dep’t; which translates such skills & know-how into performance across RTA facilities & installations every where. It also assists the concerned bodies to select the most appropriate technologies & initiatives to be used in realizing the objective of adopting Green Buildings in the RTA” he added.

Al Qudrah concluded that this series of meetings also helped the work team review the latest technologies used in the sanitary & lavatory facility projects in the private sector, reduction of water consumption in Green Buildings, and how to benefit from such technology in RTA installations and facilities.