The Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority (ADTA) and Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC), the emirate's leading tourism asset developer, have broken ground on their new waterfront joint headquarters conceptualised to be at the forefront of intuitive sustainable design. The corporate headquarters for TDIC and the Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority is being built adjacent to Maqta Bridge, the main gateway to Abu Dhabi city. The building has been designed by Singapore’s Surbana Consultants with Japan's leading architect Shigeru Ban being commissioned for the atrium design.
The building has been designed to benefit from several eco-friendly energy conservation features. There is a Building Integrated Photovoltaic roof to supply energy saving options for the running of potential display screens and lighting within areas of the basement car parking, as well as ample green decks at the rooftop level of adjoining blocks to actively reduce heat transfer into the building. There are also innovative control strategies to optimize energy consumption and the use of daylight and sun pipe to minimize the use of artificial lighting, but maximize the use of natural light. Also, there is eco courtyard with lush landscape and water features encourages evaporative cooling. Finally for constructions, they use low emitting materials. Another energy saving feature which can be added is using hybrid cars or any other type of eco-friendly transportation.
To sum up, I think that the ADTA/TDIC Headquarters project is a good example of sustainable eco- friendly projects, which cares about our environment. The main goal of these projects is not only to develop the region, also to build a healthy clean environment which reduce the global warming. I think I will give a green mark of “ A” for this project.
The building has been designed to benefit from several eco-friendly energy conservation features. There is a Building Integrated Photovoltaic roof to supply energy saving options for the running of potential display screens and lighting within areas of the basement car parking, as well as ample green decks at the rooftop level of adjoining blocks to actively reduce heat transfer into the building. There are also innovative control strategies to optimize energy consumption and the use of daylight and sun pipe to minimize the use of artificial lighting, but maximize the use of natural light. Also, there is eco courtyard with lush landscape and water features encourages evaporative cooling. Finally for constructions, they use low emitting materials. Another energy saving feature which can be added is using hybrid cars or any other type of eco-friendly transportation.
To sum up, I think that the ADTA/TDIC Headquarters project is a good example of sustainable eco- friendly projects, which cares about our environment. The main goal of these projects is not only to develop the region, also to build a healthy clean environment which reduce the global warming. I think I will give a green mark of “ A” for this project.
References: http://www.tdic.ae/?aspxerrorpath=/Default.aspx
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