International Conference | Bari - Lecce , Italy
Session V - VI
ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIORS OF MODULAR NEIGHBORHOODS THROUGH CURRENT REGULATIONS “ ESTIDAMA ”, UAE
Oraib K . A . M . Al Abbadi1 & Hasim Altan1
1 Sustainable Design of the Built Environment , Faculty of Engineering & IT , British University in Dubai , UAE , oraib . 90 @ hotmail . com / hasim . altan @ buid . ac . ae
Abstract
An adequate framework that sets basic implementation strategies of environmental methods and relevant legislations is essential for developing the sustainably environmental coefficient of current industries and big cities that are not strangers to environmental setbacks despite their industrial rapid developments and advancements . This study aims to deliver an initiative model that is based on capturing the difference of sustainable behavior of current neighborhoods in Abu Dhabi before and after adopting local policies regulated by Estidama pearl rating systems in order to deliver a modular sustainable bundle that can be implemented in future community developments . A typical community in Abu Dhabi consists mainly of a neighborhood that is repetitive in its main functional components rather than its physical or structural perception . The Estidama community pearl rating system is established to set and evaluate the mutual coexistence of current and future communities with the environment from a sustainable point of view that is basically diverted from the LEED rating system . Moreover , this study will adopt numerical values directed strategies , addressed within the green rating systems adopted in Abu Dhabi , to form a sustainable bundle to upcoming community projects based on repetitive neighborhood forms . These strategies will be chosen based on their anticipated environmental influence on the overall sustainability behavior of the neighborhood in hands , as well as their easiness of implementation actively or passively , according to Abu Dhabi ’ s unique urban , climatic , industrial and environmental different settings . This study ’ s importance lays in capturing the essence of difference taking place when applying environmental green methods to neighborhood communities . It also presents the investigation of success of the currently implemented “ Estidama ” rating system through a basic and simple comparison of implementation results through analysis and evaluation of a case study via the software tool of CityCAD ; a program that can evaluate the effect reading of the environmental aspects of a given community form .
Keywords
Environmental Sustainability , Neighborhood Form , Abu Dhabi , Estidama , CityCAD , UAE .
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