Emirates Energy Award holds seminar on carbon emissions

Sponsored by Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), Nakheel, DUBAL and Dubai Roads & Transport Authority (RTA), the seminar featured a presentation by Prof. Phillip Jones Chair of Architectural Science Research at the Welsh School of Architecture - Cardiff University, on implementing environmental standards to speed up the country's development programs.

Speaking of the occasion, Dr Mohammed Al Dulaimi, Awareness Programmes Coordinator, said, "This seminar was intended to implement the federal strategy objectives to promote a zero-carbon emission environment and support the national environment improvement programmes. The aim was to increase awareness of the necessity of rationalizing energy and adopting national standards for developing real estate projects that promote environment friendly buildings and the use of garbage recycling, for example."

Prof. Phillip Jones has been the Chair of Architectural Science Research at the Welsh School of Architecture - Cardiff University since 2003. He has conducted several research projects on optimizing the use of energy and on environment friendly designs, as well as carrying out numerous funded research projects in the Europe, UK, Malaysia and China. He has published extensively in the field, and held honorary and visiting professorships at some of the world's leading universities.