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Welcome to the EmiratesGBC 2014 Awards!

After the successful inauguration of the EmiratesGBC Awards in 2013, the 2014 Awards Program is

honoring companies that demonstrate clear implementation of sustainable design, construction and/

or operation of building structures. Its ultimate goal is to help establish a regional model for the

sustainable built environment that is world-class and replicable.

Winning and short-listed organizations have been acknowledged and rewarded during the 2014

Awards and Gala Dinner that took place on Wedn. 11 June 2014 at Grosvenor House in Dubai.

EmiratesGBC 2014 Awards

Presentation of the categories

In 2014, organizations were competing in the following categories:

Green Building of the Year - Green Facility Management Organization of the Year -

Green Material/Product of the Year - Green Building System of the Year - Green Building Research - Training Initiative of the Year - Dr. Owainati Special Award for

Students

Emirates Green Building Council would like to thank all the organizations and students that have applied this year and commend their efforts to make sustainability a key aspect of their operations and activities.

Special Thanks

Emirates Green Building Council would like to thank the Sponsors who contributed in making this 2014 Awards Program a great success:

Emirates Green Building Council would like also to extend its gratitude to its corporate member and external auditor KPMG which for the second consecutive year has officially audited the EGBC Awards Program.

The winners of the EmiratesGBC 2014 Awards

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The EmiratesGBC 2014 Awards

Review Process

The 2014 Awards Official Judges:

The 2014 applications were judged by esteemed panelists from the industry:

Mohammed T. Asfour, Chairman of JordanGBC and Member of the Board of Director of

WorldGBC

Dr. Michael Schmidt, Board Member of EmiratesGBC, Head of Development, Construction

Chemicals Division, ORA: Middle East, West Asia, CIS & Africa, BASF

Dr. Rob Cooke, Associate Sustainability Consultant, Buro Happold, and Board Member of

EmiratesGBC

Dr. Ghalib Kahwaji, Professor and Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department, Rochester

Institute of Technology

Sarfraz Dairkee, Secretary to the Board of EmiratesGBC, General Manager Corporate Dev. &

Engineering, M.A.H.Y. Khoory & Co. LLC

The Official Judges have been chosen for their extensive experience in the fields of sustainability and

green buildings. Their expertise from the private sector, the Academia and other Green Building

Council allowed them to review the numerous applications objectively and to highlight organizations

and individuals that actively contribute to furthering the green building movement, not only in the

U.A.E., but also regionally.

The 2014 Review and Selection Process:

To guarantee strict transparency and confidentiality, applicants and Official Judges were provided with

dedicated guidelines stating the 2014 Terms and Conditions and information requested in their

submissions. Both guidelines and Judges’ scorecards have been reviewed by KPMG as external

observer and auditor, and the identification of short-listed and winning organizations have been

processed and approved by the EmiratesGBC Taskforce and KPMG. All parties involved in the 2014

Awards Program have signed Confidentiality Agreements.

From left to right: Dr. Rob Cook (Buro Happold), Dr. Ghalib Kahwaji (Rochester Institute of Technology), and Sarfraz Dairkee


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The EmiratesGBC 2014 Awards Winners

Award Category 1 — Green Building of the Year

This category rewards a finalized building in the MENA region whose construction and completion have respected the highest sustainability standards and included innovation in design and processes.

Awarded to The Change Initiative

Proudly home grown in Dubai, The Change Initiative aspires to be a global brand name in the sustainability space, providing a platform for solutions that promote responsible living. It includes a shop, café, conference center and green building solutions center.

The Change Initiative flagship showroom on Sheikh Zayed Road carries the prestigious title of the most sustainable building in the world under LEED Commercial Interiors for Retail, version 2009. The LEED Platinum certification was awarded by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) in May 2013 having achieved 107 points out of a maximum of 110 on the LEED green building sustainability guidelines.

This holistic design approach was chosen to achieve sustainable levels of resource efficiency in the built environment during the design and construction phase. To ensure ongoing commitment to the philosophy, The Change Initiative has recently embarked on LEED Existing Buildings Operations and Maintenance.

Short-Listed Organization:

Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, a Mubadala Company, is the first hospital of this scale in the region to be certified LEED Gold (LEED v2.2) under New Construction and Major Renovation category.

Left: Geraldine Seguela, Tony Burton and Darlene Flook representing The Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

Right: Joelle Khoury

From left to right: Jeff Willis (EmiratesGBC), Saeed Al

Abbar (EmiratesGBC), Rashmi Coelho (The Change

Initiative), Sheena Khan (The Change Initiative)


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Award Category 2 — Facility Management Organization of the Year

This category rewards a finalized building in the MENA region whose construction and completion have respected the highest sustainability standards and included innovation in design and processes.

Awarded to Emaar Community Management

Emaar Community Management is a division of the Emaar Group with an international team of experts, who bring their experience from all over the world. The organization has the capacity to manage every aspect of a community – from setting up owners associations and advocacy, to educating residents about sustainability and holding community events.

Emaar Community Management holds a battery of qualifications that include ISO 9001 accreditation – Quality Management systems, ISO 14001 for Environmental Management system and ISO 50001 for Energy Management.

During 2013-2014, the organization implemented multiple sustainability initiatives that ranged from replacing invasive Damas trees and engaging younger residents to depict ways to save the environment with recycled art. In addition, it has

employed initiatives that help conserve water, control lighting, scheduled irrigation, utilizing renewable energy and methods for recycling and waste management. These initiatives cover 35,000 homes and 100,000 residents are engaged in the various campaigns, allowing the organization to save 24,012 tones of CO2 emissions.

While it served as a major partner of the UAE Green Festival 2014, the organization also has a Sustainability Committee to steer its operations towards a greener future.


Emrill Integrated Facilities Management, offering a full range of hard asset and soft facilities management services providing technology driven solutions tailored to support master developments, residential communities, leisure, corporate and commercial complexes while using a Sustainability Leadership Plan to help projects implement actions to progress.

The Emaar Community Management team accepting the

Award for Green Facility Management Organization of the Year


The Emrill Integrated Facilities Management team received a memento

for sponsoring the 2014 Awards Program and Ceremony.

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Award Category 3 — Green Building Material / Product of the Year

This category rewards the successful introduction to the MENA region of a construction material or product/component which addresses green building principles.

Awarded to Johnson Controls Air Conditioning and Refrigeration, Inc. for the YORK YVAA Air-Cooled Variable Speed Screw Chiller

The YORK YVAA air-cooled variable-speed screw chiller (150 to 350 TR capacity) was manufactured by Johnson Controls for efficiency, reduced sound, and sustainability. The chiller offers flexible energy consumption with efficiencies up to 11.6 EER and an option to configure an integrated part load value up to 19.8 EER. This chiller features low kW/ton at both full-load design and off-design conditions. YVAA Chiller was launched in 2011 in Abu Dhabi for the Middle East region along with many other regions in the world.

The YVAA is the first air-cooled chiller on the market to offer the ‘Tailor and Tune’ feature that allows customers to configure a chiller to exactly match its requirements. Over 2.0 million (refrigeration) tons of YORK brand air-cooled VSD screw chillers operating today in demanding applications in more than 100 countries.

YVAA air-cooled variable-speed screw chiller is a Smart, Sustainable, Silent and Specified product which:

Reduces annual energy costs by as much as 50%

Reduce sound by up to 16 dBA to meet tighter regulations

Minimize environmental impact dramatically

This device uses a refrigerant with no ozone-depletion potential and no phase-out date, a falling-film evaporator, and a micro-channel condenser coil to reduce refrigerant charge.


DERBIGUM Middle East for the Derbipure waterproofing membrane produced in a plant that runs on 100% renewable energy. It is a waterproofing membrane, green product and a passive cooler for roofs manufactured by Derbigum in Belgium, pioneer in Ecological roofing solutions. It is the only waterproofing membrane in the world to receive a cradle-to-cradle silver Certification which qualifies as 100% recyclable and does not contain dangerous components (VOC free).

Jeff Willis and Saeed Al Abbar (EmiratesGBC) reward the

Johnson Controls team with the Award for Green Building

Material / Product of the Year.


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Award Category 4 — Green Building System the Year

This category rewards a building system that provides a more sustainable solution to green building construction than traditional construction methods.

Awarded to Royal City Contracting L.L.C. for the G+1 Villa in Al Warqa 3 project in Dubai

Royal City Contracting L.L.C. is comprised of design and build contractors, working towards green sustainable construction using the Eco Green Construction System, with the target to make self sustainable energy plus houses for sustainable communities around the world. The winning project is the system used to develop the First Passive House Standards Design in the U.A.E. This house is highly insulated and air tight by using the Eco Green ICF Construction System, allowing air conditioning to be successfully reduced by up to 60%. While 60 tonnage of air conditioning were supposed to be installed, 23 Tons only were finally needed. The project is saving significant amount of CO2 gases, and the villa is built on LEED Standards to earn 38 LEED points without extra investment into project value.

Results of air tightness tests reached 1.78 m3/hr/m2 which out-perform the local Dubai Green Building

Regulations requirements of 10m3/h/m2. The U Values for the Eco Green Construction system is 0.041. While regular passive house standards for energy consumption is 120 kwh/m2/year, the G+1 Villa in Al Warqa 3 project is performing energy consumption of 100 kwh/m2/year due to the highly insulated envelop and better air-tight construction quality of the Eco Green Construction System.


Johnson Controls Air Conditioning and Refrigeration, Inc., for the Princess Noura bint Abdulraham University. The university’s design is environmentally friendly and the campus will include an administration building, a central library, conference centers, buildings for 15 academic faculties, several laboratories and a state-of-the-art, 700-bed hospital. Because the installed chillers are radiator cooled, they will not only save more than 2,100 gallons of water per minute of chiller operation, but they will also save a considerable amount of energy that would be required to treat and pump that water.

From left to right: Tara Tariq (EmiratesGBC), Manal Elewah (Green Concepts Centre GCC Limited), Dr. Rob Cooke (Buro

Happold) and Barrie Harmsworth (Green Energy Solutions), Peter Dey and Davide Terrone (Grace Construction)

From left to right: Nisar Ahmed (Royal City Contracting

LLC.), Jeff Willis (EmiratesGBC), Saeed Al Abbar

(EmiratesGBC), Abdul Razzak (Royal City Contracting

LLC.)


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Award Category 5 — Green Building Research

This category rewards research that establishes dependable data, in an area not previously available, related to green building performance.

Awarded to The British University in Dubai, “Refurbishment of Federal Public Housing Villas in the UAE; Energy Savings and Economic Analysis”

This study is aimed at assessing the technical and economic benefits of refurbishing existing residential buildings in the U.A.E. Four representative federal public housing villas built by the Ministry of Public Works (MoPW) between the 1980s-2010s are used in the current study.

IES-VE computer energy modeling is used to estimate the energy savings potential of different refurbishment configurations as they are applied to the four villas. The refurbishment configurations are based on the new Abu Dhabi ESTIDAMA sustainability framework. The annual electricity savings results indicated that the most cost efficient refurbishment strategy is the application of wall insulation with savings up to 20.79% followed by refurbishing the roof with savings up to 11.59% and lastly refurbishing the glazing with savings up to 3.15%. When all of these elements are refurbished at the same time, the maximum savings was 36.73%.

The results of the energy savings were used to assess the economic feasibility of the different refurbishment strategies using simple payback period analysis (SPP). The SPP results ranged between 8-21 years depending on the villa’s model/age and refurbishment strategy applied. The long payback periods are mainly due to the low cost of government subsidized electricity in the U.A.E.


Dubai Central Laboratory of Dubai Municipality, “Sustainable Assessment of Recycled Aggregates from Construction & Demolition Wastes”: Realizing the future and National Importance of recycled aggregate in construction, Dubai Central Laboratory of Dubai Municipality has taken up this research project. This study on reuse and recycling of Demolition Wastes aimed to utilize the Recycled Aggregates as filling, pavement materials as concrete constituents for new concrete and manufacturing of concrete products.

The team of the Dubai Central Laboratory of Dubai Municipality

From left to right: Jeff Willis (EmiratesGBC), Prof. Bassam

Abdel-Karim Abu-Hijleh (The British University in Dubai),

Saeed Al Abbar (EmiratesGBC), Prof. Abdullah AlShamsi

(The British University in Dubai)


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Award Category 6 — Training Initiative of the Year

This category rewards the best sustainability training initiative in the MENA region.

Awarded to The Change Initiative

As the highest rated LEED for Retail Commercial Interiors building in the world, The Change Initiative becomes the ideal location to spread awareness through The Change Initiative Community Education Program, with a core focus on green building design.

The Program welcomes corporates, universities, high and elementary schools alike to learn about a range of sustainability education topics, from green building design to minimizing food waste. Throughout 2013, more than 2,900 participants have gained valuable insights thanks to the Program. The Learning Journey is designed to be conversational: by encouraging participation through reflection and critical thinking, engaging through information sharing and empowerment by providing tools necessary to adopt more responsible practices.


WACKER Chemicals Middle East whose training seminar focuses on showcasing measures to protect the climate through innovative construction chemistry that increases energy efficiency and promotes a healthy living environment: Energy efficiency through the use of intelligent facade systems, and use of polymeric sealing slurries to protect against water loss.

From left to right: Saeed Al Abbar, EmiratesGBC Chairman and Jeff Willis, Vice-Chairman and Management Champion for the

Awards Program, introducing categories and winners. The EmiratesGBC Team.

The Change Initiative team: Sheena Khan, Pamela

R. Hudson, David Hudson and Rashmi Coelho


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Dr. Owainati Special Award for Students

This special Award, sponsored by EmiratesGBC co-Founder Dr. Sadek Owainati, specifically rewards a student from a recognized university in the U.A.E. who has conducted exceptional research work in a subject related to green buildings in the Middle East.

Awarded to Omair Awadh, “The Impact of External Shading and Windows' Glazing and Frame on Thermal Performance of Residential House in Abu Dhabi” - The British University in Dubai

The amount of solar heat gain and thermal transmittance of windows glazing and setback properties are the main factors that can be optimized. External shading devices contribute a lot in solar radiation penetration and reflectance.

The present study's aim is to determine effective green design strategies in dealing with solar radiation and heat gain through windows system, in order to improve housing projects energy consumption and occupants comfort. This target will be achieved through examining and analyzing different fenestration system design parameters of residential villa in Abu Dhabi with the help of computer simulation software (IES VE). Windows system properties and shading devices performance had a great impact on the case study annual energy consumption, peak load of mechanical cooling system, daylight, and CO2 emissions.

The study showed that 10% reduction in cooling demands could be achieved only through improving windows and shading systems. This outcome helps construction designers and stakeholders in identifying simple and effective factors to enhance buildings efficiency and the sustainable development of the built environment.

Short-Listed Student:

Farah Yassine, “The Effect of Shading Devices on the Energy Consumption of Buildings: A Study of an Office Building in Dubai” - The British University in Dubai: One of the main sources of CO2 emissions in the U.A.E. relates to the buildings where the cooling loads required accounts for 60% of the summer peak electricity load. Thus it is important to propose solutions to decrease energy consumptions of these buildings. This study aimed at quantifying the potential energy savings achievable by external shading devices. It proves that the employment of fixed external shading devices on all facades of a building can reduce energy consumption dramatically, consequently increasing the overall energy performance of the building. From left to right: Abeer Manneh (Woodsbagot),

Farah Yassine and Omair Awadh, finalist and win-

ner of Dr. Owainati Special Award for Students (The

British University in Dubai) and Saoud Al Falasi.

Omair Awadh (The British University of Dubai) receiving

his Special Prize from Jeff Willis and Saeed Al Abbar

(EmiratesGBC)


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EmiratesGBC 2015 Awards Closing the 2014 Awards Program does not mean our work ends here, as we are already preparing

the 2015 Program based on the applicants’, Judges’ and auditors’ comments.

If you have any feedback regarding the Awards process and the Gala Dinner & Awards Ceremony,

please send them to [email protected] or +971 4 346 8244.

Your feedback will help us build an even stronger event in 2015.

The categories for the EmiratesGBC 2015 Awards Program and the modalities to apply will soon be

shared on the new EGBC website and other social media. Keep yourself posted and do not hesitate to

contact us if you have any questions.

The Emirates Green Building Council was formed in 2006 with the goal of advancing green building principles for protecting environment and ensuring sustainability in the United Arab Emirates.

Address: PO Box 121838, Dubai, U.A.E.

Tel: +971 4 346 8244

Fax: +71 4 346 8248

E-mail: [email protected]

Website: www.emiratesgbc.org

EGBC 2014 Awards Official Sponsors

Finally, Emirates Green Building Council would like to thank all those who contributed to the success of the 2014 Awards Program and Gala event:

Office team: Marie-Helene Westholm-Knebel, Lora Shrake, Aanal Patwari, Hussam Eddin, Adelita Cortenias

EmiratesGBC Management Committee, with Jeffrey Willis as Management Champion for the Awards Program

PR/media: Asda’a

Photography: Kunal Photography

Awards Ceremony and Gala Dinner Emcee: Joelle Khoury

Gala Dinner & Awards Ceremony: Grosvenor House, A Luxury Collection Hotel, Dubai

2014 EmiratesGBC Annual Congress: “Sustainable Cities for the Future”

20-21 October 2014, Grosvenor House, Dubai

Strong off the success of its 2nd Annual Congress that took place on 11-12 December 2013,

EmiratesGBC is actively preparing its 3rd edition that will take place on 20-21 October 2014. With the

topic “Sustainable Cities for the Future”, the Congress will address sustainable urban planning under

local, regional and international perspectives through panel discussions, presentations, case studies

and workshops. Programme, speakers, sponsorship opportunities and location of side-events will be

disclosed shortly. Contact [email protected] or +971 4 346 8244 for further details.


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