ABU Dhabi Urban Planning Council (UPC), the agency responsible for the future of Abu Dhabi’s urban environments in line with Plan Abu Dhabi 2030, and founder of the Estidama sustainable initiative, is conducting a series of workshops with developers of projects that have achieved Estidama Pilot project status.
The workshops aim at educating designers of 20 development projects on how to inject Estidama’s new buildings and community guidelines in their designs and how to rate their sustainability performance as per the Estidama Pearl rating method. The workshops will also guide developers as to the process of documentation, key milestone and key dates moving forward.
Commenting on Estidama’s workshop initiative, Falah Al Ahbabi, general manager of UPC, says: “The selection of these pilot projects for entering the ultimate testing sessions of Estidama guidelines and rating methods is a significant step towards ingraining core sustainability practices in the conceptual phases of urbanization projects planned across the Emirate.”
He adds: “Our core and assigned objective is to establish the Estidama pearl rating method as a leading benchmark rating tool over the region and provide developers with the opportunity to brand and market their buildings as pearl design developments.”