Property & Real Estate
Dubai Foster & Partners’ Index Tower Takes Top Honors for Keeping it Cool
Set in the crowded avenues of Dubai, Foster + Partners‘ super-tall mixed-use Index Tower has stood out to win the 2011 award for the best building in the Middle East and Africa, bestowed by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. Foster + Partners seems to have the knack for building in the desert, [...]
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Dr Ayoub Kazim Raising Awareness on Renewable Energy
Dr Ayoub Kazim believes influencing adoption of sustainable practices should be a joint effort between private and public sector. For some years now, Dr Ayoub Kazim has been promoting sustainability and advocating for lifestyle changes that would help to reduce energy consumption. He takes added responsibility as a citizen of the UAE, a country that [...]
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Panasonic Marketing Middle East to be U.S. Green Building Council LEEDS certified
Press Release Panasonic Marketing Middle East, under the consultation of Middle East Centre for Sustainable Development (MECSD), is on course to achieving U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) LEED certification for existing buildings at the Middle East and Africa headquarters, located in Dubai, by 2012. The USGBC LEED green building certification system is the pre-eminent program [...]
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Dubai Internet City becomes first in region to provide ‘green office’ to business partners
Press Release The region’s first ‘green office’ has opened in Dubai Internet City (DIC), offering a resource- efficient, healthy and productive location at the ‘Firststeps@DIC’ Business Centre, announced the ICT Cluster today. Firststeps@DIC is a unique facility within DIC that allows companies to lease short-term office space while exploring business and market opportunities. Dubai Internet [...]
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Rezidor’s ME hotels win ‘green’ certification
Rezidor Hotel Group, a leading hospitality company, has become the first international hotel group in the Middle East to achieve full environmental certification across all its hotels and brands. Rezidor’s entire Middle East portfolio of 17 operational hotels has achieved the Green Key eco-label, a global eco-label for the leisure industry. This includes all Radisson [...]
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