| It didn't surprise observers, when Dubai announced its | | | | eco-friendly Dubai hotels (United Arab Emirates), |
| plan to make eco-friendly buildings. First of all, Dubai's | | | | furnished apartments and villas to continue having a |
| own roots were dug deep inside a vast barren land. | | | | sustained growth. |
| Aided by the latest building science, they went on to | | | | In the case of non-eco buildings, the impact on |
| erect a modern-day giant right in the midst of sand | | | | environment is profound. For example, the buildings |
| dunes. To have an eco-friendly approach was but a | | | | of the United States consume 25% of total water, |
| necessity for their growth oriented policies now. That | | | | 70% of total electricity, 49 % of total energy and |
| is why many ongoing constructions involving Dubai | | | | discharge and about 38% of total CO2. Sustainable |
| hotels (United Arab Emirates), furnished apartments, | | | | structures, in that sense, directly improve the public |
| villas and office blocks are being asked now to be | | | | health and productivity on one hand, and reduce the |
| eco-friendly. Dubai's skyline has grown by an alarming | | | | environmental degradation and operating costs on the |
| rate in the last few years, which raises the possibility | | | | other. Practitioners of the green buildings, in some |
| of a resource crunch taking place in the future. To | | | | cases, even go beyond the main structure and try to |
| cope with any such eventuality, one requires adopting | | | | incorporate the vicinity as well, into their original |
| eco-friendly methods for constructing newer | | | | designs. Accordingly, most upcoming Dubai hotels, |
| shopping malls, villas, and Dubai hotels. | | | | hotel apartments and furnished villas can be |
| One may ask here what exactly are the eco-friendly | | | | envisaged submerging into the landscape they were |
| or green buildings that we are speaking about. Do | | | | made to be part of. |
| they have farming and gardening going inside them | | | | Some popular misconceptions about the eco-friendly |
| alongside with the usual way of living? This author | | | | and non-eco-friendly buildings both, dog the real |
| paused for a moment to look around for the answer, | | | | estate market world over. For example, the damage |
| and found this explanation. Buildings that were friendly | | | | to environment by the non-eco-friendly buildings is |
| to the eco system, including the humans residing | | | | often underestimated. On the other hand, the |
| inside them, were supposed to be called by the | | | | construction costs of the eco-friendly ones are |
| name ecologically-friendly or green buildings. In other | | | | overestimated by 300%. This tells why there are so |
| words, they were to be made from the recycled, | | | | few green buildings to be seen around in the whole |
| eco-friendly and locally supplied construction material. | | | | world, in the present era. Dubai, the number one city |
| This ensures two key eco-aware measures. The | | | | in many areas, might as well prove out to be the |
| first, the least amount of raw material and fuel | | | | leader in introducing the green concept in a major |
| consumption taking place while the building was being | | | | style. One will have to wait and watch to see the |
| developed, and the second, the least amount of | | | | impact of such proposals on Dubai hotels (United |
| green house emissions taking place once it was | | | | Arab Emirates), furnished villas and similar other |
| handed over to buyers. Keeping in mind Dubai's size | | | | initiatives. |
| and growth, it was but necessary to ask for | | | | |