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Developing a masterplan for sustainable design

As the environmental impacts of the built environment come under greater scrutiny, the job of creating genuinely sustainable communities is becoming a pressing need rather than a luxury. Erin Gill speaks with Matthew Kitson of Hilson Moran

01-Sep-10  Earlier this year, in April, Abu Dhabi’s Urban Planning Council unveiled something called Estidama, the emirate’s own methodology for assessing the sustainability of new buildings and communities. Instead of development within the emirate being assessed according to Leed, the methodology of the US Green Building Council, or Breeam, the British Research Establishment’s system, it will now be judged according to the Estidama...

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