The Dubai Supreme Council of Vitality (DSCE)’s Regulatory and Supervisory Bureau (RSB) for Electrical energy and Water, in cooperation with the Dubai Land Division’s Actual Property Regulatory Company (RERA), organised a joint workshop that centered on enhancing the effectivity of vitality and water use in buildings. The workshop aimed to help the vitality effectivity coverage for joint possession properties, which was lately launched by RERA.
Enhancing the funding worth of actual property unitsThe workshop was attended by over 100 property homeowners, administration corporations, and repair suppliers to debate methods to preserve vitality and water consumption, improve their use, and guarantee optimum operations in buildings within the Emirate. This helps useful resource consumption effectivity and enhances the funding worth of every actual property unit.
“This strategic cooperation goals to boost sustainability in Dubai in keeping with the announcement by His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE, to increase the ‘Yr of Sustainability’ to incorporate 2024. This additionally displays the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to make Dubai a job mannequin in laying the foundations for a inexperienced financial system and consolidate its place among the many most sustainable cities on this planet.
The workshop emphasised the significance of the outcomes of the United Nations Framework Conference on Local weather Change (COP28), hosted by the UAE on the finish of final yr at Expo Metropolis Dubai. The cooperation between the Dubai Supreme Council of Vitality and the Dubai Land Division’s RERA displays each events’ keenness to implement the vitality effectivity administration coverage for joint possession properties. The coverage was established in keeping with Dubai’s imaginative and prescient to be one of the best and happiest metropolis on this planet,” mentioned HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Vice Chairman of the Dubai Supreme Council of Vitality.
“We consider within the clever management’s imaginative and prescient to make Dubai one of the best on this planet via reworking the vitality sector and decreasing greenhouse gasoline emissions. This cooperation with the Dubai Land Division goals to boost the effectivity of vitality and water in buildings and drive actual change that contributes to reaching Dubai’s targets for managing vitality demand and reaching web zero by 2050,” mentioned HE Ahmed Buti Al Muhairbi, Secretary-Normal of the Dubai Supreme Council of Vitality.
Roadmap in direction of the sustainability targets“COP28 has established a scientific technique and a roadmap in direction of the sustainability targets within the UAE. Via our cooperation with the Dubai Supreme Council of Vitality, we’re happy to boost these efforts aiming to realize the formidable targets of the Dubai Financial Agenda (D33) together with offering a world normal for sustainability in Dubai. We’re dedicated to enhancing the readiness and sustainability of the true property sector in Dubai. We are going to proceed to work to combine our shared targets on this regard to create a extra sustainable future for Dubai,” mentioned HE Eng. Marwan bin Ghalita, Performing Director Normal of Dubai Land Division.
Mohammed Khalifa bin Hammad, Senior Director of the Actual Property Regulatory Relations Division in RERA, underlined the significance of the vitality effectivity administration coverage for joint possession properties launched by RERA, which was one of many foremost pillars of the workshop. The coverage goals to boost vitality effectivity, cut back consumption, and improve environmental sustainability. “This coverage will drive the transition to a extra sustainable future via seven requirements. These embrace adopting a proactive method to vitality administration, selling energy-efficient constructing practices, constantly guiding the usage of vitality administration programs, and offering the mandatory instruments and supplies to watch, analyse and enhance vitality consumption,” he added.
Buildings Vitality Administration Accreditation Scheme
Throughout the workshop, the RSB introduced the Buildings Vitality Administration Accreditation Scheme (BEMAS), which is an enabler for reaching operational sustainability in electrical energy and water consumption. The scheme works as a catalyst for enhancing vitality effectivity in buildings, in keeping with the vitality effectivity administration coverage for joint possession properties and the Demand Facet Administration Technique for vitality in Dubai. This technique additionally meets the necessities of vitality administration corporations to allow constructing homeowners to optimise vitality consumption, thus reaching monetary financial savings and creating added worth, whereas supporting environmental sustainability.
The system has many advantages for a lot of stakeholders. Traders profit from enhancing the worth of properties and decreasing operational prices, whereas tenants take pleasure in extra consolation and decrease service payments. The system additionally supplies service suppliers with alternatives to current specialised providers. BEMAS additionally advantages the group by contributing to a extra sustainable constructed atmosphere.
Vitality effectivity within the constructed environmentDuring the workshop, RERA additionally highlighted the significance of vitality effectivity within the constructed atmosphere. The Dubai World Commerce Centre showcased its expertise in implementing vitality effectivity initiatives in its actual property portfolio. The Centre introduced a research on vitality effectivity in its One Central venture, which incorporates 5 buildings which have achieved the LEED (Management in Vitality and Environmental Design) gold certification. Furthermore, ENGIE Options showcased their expertise as an vitality administration service supplier for buildings.
As Dubai strikes in direction of a extra sustainable future, the cooperation between the RSB, RERA, and stakeholders from the personal sector paves the way in which for a extra sustainable actual property sector, benefitting the atmosphere, financial system, and group. Via this cooperation, the RSB for Electrical energy and Water goals to help the Demand Facet Administration Technique for vitality and empower vitality effectivity initiatives in Dubai.
RERA performs an integral position in adopting sustainability rules on this important sector. RERA’s proactive method to vitality effectivity and sustainability emphasises the significance of enhancing the sustainability of the rising actual property market. RERA lately launched the vitality effectivity administration coverage for joint possession properties, emphasising the necessities for vitality effectivity measures and efficiency studies. This coverage is a suggestion for implementing vitality and water effectivity initiatives via property and group administration corporations, strengthening Dubai’s dedication to sustainable practices.
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