Workshops

9.00 - 12:00 Workshop A: Building a platform for sustainability and efficiency

Led by Stephen Oehme, this interactive workshop will take you deep into the latest strategies and techniques for incorporating sustainability into your projects. A detailed run-through with interactive, collaborative elements, this is a workshop you cannot afford to miss.

How you will benefit:

• Learn how to create an advanced model of sustainability implementation and incorporate it into your projects
• Explore the impact of different sustainability initiatives on design and delivery and which intiatives to use in different situations
• Bring cost into the equation effectively and succinctly, enabling you to make the business case for sustainability

Stephen Oehme
Regional Director – Value Management and Sustainability
Hyder Consulting Middle East

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9.00 - 12:00 Workshop B: Sustainable community development

Led by Dr Gisela Loehlin, Consultant to the Director General, Directorate of Public Works in Sharjah, and Representative for the Middle East to the United Nations for Sustainability - Built Environment; this in-depth workshop will address a range of factors influencing a community’s sustainability.

What will be covered?

• Defining the sustainable community
• Threshold issues: prioritizing the scale and significance of key issues
• Energy: understanding the role of energy conservation and production in a community
• The critical role of transportation in sustainable development
• Sustainable water management
• Carbon emissions and community development

Dr Gisela Loehlein
Consultant to the Director General
Directorate of Public Works in Sharjah

13.00 - 16:00 Workshop C: Sustainable urbanism: Holistic design workshop

Sustainable urbanism is a holistic approach that integrates ecological design into all disciplines and scales of development including urban design, architecture, landscape architecture, engineering and interiors to form the basis for an integrated approach to sustainability. The implementation of these practices is a key factor in developing the built environment.

Workshop highlights:

• Case studies show issues associated with design and implementation
• U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Zero Energy Building as a repeatable prototype of holistic design
• Practical measuring systems such as LEED, Estidama, PEARL and Sustainable Sites: limitation and value
• How to apply a holistic design approach to your project to achieve sustainability results, and the relationship between design and implementation in achieving sustainable communities

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13.00 - 16:00 Workshop D: Pearl rating preliminary Estidama assessment for new residential or commercial buildings

This interactive workshop has been designed to assist developers and their design teams to incorporate sustainable principles into their building design, procurement arrangements and construction practices in anticipation of the 2009 mandatory requirements of the Estidama green buildings assessment ratings process.

• Gain a complete overview of the Estidama new residential and commercial buildings assessment process
• Enable developers and building designers to understand the scoring and weighting system of the Pearl Assessment
• Summarise design and performance expectations
• Provide design teams with an early indication of indicative Pearl Rating

Henrietta Jukes
Principal Environmental Scientist
GHD