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KAUST: A Sustainable Campus in Saudi Arabia
Karim Elgendy UPDATED – The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) at Thuwal (near Jeddah) in Saudi Arabia was recently announced as one of the winners of the American Institute of...
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Abu Dhabi’s Masdar Headquarters: The First Positive-Energy Building in the...
Karim Elgendy As previously reported on Carboun, Masdar City – the $22 billion project of the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (Masdar) – is currently under construction and is due to be completed in...
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A Damascus School Revives Traditional Cooling Techniques
Karim Elgendy In late 2008 the French President Francois Sarkozy inaugurated a new French school in Damascus, Syria. The French school, known as Lycée Charles de Gaulle, follows the french educational...
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Dubai Experiments with Sustainable Development
Karim Elgendy Throughout the last three decades, the city of Dubai has not been known for its emphasis on sustainability as guiding principles for its development. Not only did it adopt an unnatural...
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Passive Cooling: Responding to Electricity Demand in the UAE
Wissam Yassine and Karim Elgendy During the 1990s and the early 2000s, the UAE, and the city of Dubai in particular, witnessed a rapid rate of growth in its built environment driven by a real estate...
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