Analysis

Sustainability – between hype and reality

Sustainable development is in danger of becoming a passing fad, with everyone in the industry wanting to pay lip service to it. Sougata Nandi argues that it needs to be financially profitable, environmentally responsible and socially sensitive, and demonstrates ways of integrating it in development projects.

Tapping the valve market

What is the evaluation on the region’s market? The future outlook, Jose Franco reports, is mostly bullish, even as the world faces the threat of a second recession due to the debt turmoil in Europe.

Shining Through

ETAP Dubai CEO, Michael Nuyttens explains to Jose Franco why Dubai offers a huge market for the lighting retrofit.

The Case For Water Less

Retrofit Champion - Leandro Bantug, Managing Director, Design International Selections

Mall Make-Over

The owner of Al Ghurair City, in 2009, decided that the nearly 30-year-old facility needed a make-over, including a replacement of the air conditioning system. Trane got the call.

‘Let’s cut the excess flab’

Retrofit Champion - Sarfraz H Dairkee, General Manager – Corporate Development and Engineering, MAHY Khoory

A Study In Green

The newly expanded Johnson Controls global headquarters at Glendale, Wisconsin, demonstrates the benefits of a three-pronged approach to sustainability.

Engineering Conservation

In an interview with Climate Control Middle East, Phil Barnett, Property Manager at Grand Hyatt Dubai, gives an insight into the various initiatives the hotel has taken to make it environmentally sustainable.

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