Abstract: ESTIDAMA is a green building framework used to improve the environment, energy efficiency and water use in Abu Dhabi. The high rate of water and energy consumption in Abu Dhabi necessitates an investigation into the implementation of Green Building initiatives in Abu Dhabi. The challenges were to achieve the desired results of reducing energy consumption, reducing water consumption and building comfortable and environmentally-friendly residential areas. All these challenges stimulate to study and investigate the current situation of the implementation of Green Building initiatives in residential building developments in Abu Dhabi. This was conducted by evaluating the Estidama Pearls Rating System to reveal how the Green Building procedures were implemented in residential buildings in Abu Dhabi. The findings suggest how the situation can be improved. A case study was used to illustrate how the Green Building procedures can be embraced for residential buildings. The study also used questionnaires and interviews to evaluate the Green Building procedure. Data was collected from 150 participants and analyzed by using descriptive statistics. The results reflected the prevalence of the implementation of the Green Building procedures in Abu Dhabi and also the current success rate of this implementation in practice. The findings showed that the understanding of Green Building regulations (ESTIDAMA) for Residential Building in Abu Dhabi by construction firms is in the medium range, which means the Green Building procedure (ESTIDAMA) requires more efforts in training the construction firms and increasing their awareness. Furthermore, the implementation of Green Building procedures in residential building faces some obstacles and challenges including a lack of related training courses, a lack of professional expertise in Green Building design firms, a lack of building materials and information, a lack of familiarity with Green Building procedures within the building firms, the costly nature of the Green Building process and a lack of understanding of the Estidama framework and regulation.
Keywords: Green building, Estidama, Pearl Rating System, environmental, residential building.
Title: Implementing Green Building Procedures for the Construction of Residential Buildings in Abu Dhabi
Author: Shahnaz Ali Abdalla Mohammed, Mohamad Syazli Fathi, Noorirza Mohd Zaki
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations
ISSN 2348-1226 (online), ISSN 2348-1218 (print)
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