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Masdar City Masterplan Reviewed
Masdar City Masterplan. Copyright Masdar, Foster+Partners When Masdar City was first announced in 2007 by the Masdar Initiative, it claims that, when completed, it will become the world’s first zero...
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Abu Dhabi’s Masdar Headquarters: The First Positive-Energy Building in the...
Karim Elgendy As previously reported on Carboun, Masdar City – the $22 billion project of the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (Masdar) – is currently under construction and is due to be completed in...
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Dubai Experiments with Sustainable Development
Karim Elgendy Throughout the last three decades, the city of Dubai has not been known for its emphasis on sustainability as guiding principles for its development. Not only did it adopt an unnatural...
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A Review of Sustainable Design in the Middle East
Karim Elgendy The notions of sustainable design and energy efficiency first entered global consciousness following the energy shortages of the 1970s and 1980s. Influenced by ideas of energy...
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