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15 years ago
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Abu Dhabi Developments
Abu Dhabi is a modern city with a modern view. Many projects are currently being development, a glimpse on what Abu Dhabi's projects are can be found at http://www.tdic.ae/default.aspx. One project which really catched my attention was Saadiyat Island.Saadiyat Island is project planned to be completed by 2018, it is made to occupy 160,000 residents on 27 square kilometers. In this island there will be seven districts with 29 hotels and 3 marinas. Saadiyat Island will be the talk of the year in 2018 since it is developed to be more like a tourist attract rather than an enviromental rescue.
In my opinion Saadiyat Island looks like it will be a great project will many attractive features and activites, but won't be any help to our enviromental crisis. As announced by Saadiyat Island's main website that only one district out of seven will be an fully eco-address. other districts will be 7 stars hotels which in no way will be happy to save the enviroment on the account of loosing a customer's saticfaction.
However this is just an opinion, but no one knows for sure how these hotels will operate since not much information was provided on this island. All we need to do is just wait and see !
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A Cool City...
Cool Cities and SDCJ is a project to make people live a sustainable lifesytle. This means livings in cities where flats and houses are rather cool instead of being a frigde and where SUVs are replaced by public transport and exercise. The UAE has become a big concern by the World Wildlife Federation (WWF). This is what made the UAE contribute to launch Masdar. In Masdar transportation will be by foot or by buses and buildings will be rather closer to each other to provide more cool and shade instead of being far apart.
Masdar is an environmental friendly project development by a $22 billion to make a carbon neutral city. This development gives people in the UAE the option of living sustainably. However Masdar's engineer coordinator has some doughts that this city won't appeal some people. But according to a British engineer Masdar's project will cut it's energy usage by around 50 - 70 per cent compared with a smaller size city.
A big problem in the UAE is the unbelievable summer heat. This cause people to use the air conditioning in an extraordinary way especially during the afternoon when the temperatures could reach up to 50 - 50 degrees Celsius. This is an issue because lots of energy is being used by air conditioning systems. However several ideas have been planned and the latest one was a project inspired by Clarke Quay in Singapore. The idea was to provide large fans and misters as well as canopies and umbrellas to shade the 1.4 million square metre plot near Zayed Sport City Stadium in Abu Dhabi.
All in all these cities will really make a big of contribution to lose the stress of global warming and help reduce carbon emission, nothing comes cheap nowadays. These cities really cost a tremendous amount of money which makes people think again before starting to develop, that's why we haven't seen none of these projects and I guess we won't see them soon.
Masdar is an environmental friendly project development by a $22 billion to make a carbon neutral city. This development gives people in the UAE the option of living sustainably. However Masdar's engineer coordinator has some doughts that this city won't appeal some people. But according to a British engineer Masdar's project will cut it's energy usage by around 50 - 70 per cent compared with a smaller size city.
A big problem in the UAE is the unbelievable summer heat. This cause people to use the air conditioning in an extraordinary way especially during the afternoon when the temperatures could reach up to 50 - 50 degrees Celsius. This is an issue because lots of energy is being used by air conditioning systems. However several ideas have been planned and the latest one was a project inspired by Clarke Quay in Singapore. The idea was to provide large fans and misters as well as canopies and umbrellas to shade the 1.4 million square metre plot near Zayed Sport City Stadium in Abu Dhabi.
All in all these cities will really make a big of contribution to lose the stress of global warming and help reduce carbon emission, nothing comes cheap nowadays. These cities really cost a tremendous amount of money which makes people think again before starting to develop, that's why we haven't seen none of these projects and I guess we won't see them soon.
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