World’s first zero carbon, zero waste city in Abu Dhabi

May 12, 2007 at 9:12 pm · Filed under Arabisms, Design

The first project as a result of the Masdar Initiative is a new 6 million square meter sustainable development that uses the traditional planning principals of a walled city, together with existing technologies, to achieve a zero carbon and zero waste community. Masterplanned by Foster + Partners, the initiative has been driven by the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company, and will be a centre for the development of new ideas for energy production. Masdar responds to the urban identity of Abu Dhabi while offering a sustainable urban blueprint for the future. Due to be launched at Cityscape Abu Dhabi 2007, it is an ambitious project that will attract the highest levels of international expertise and commerce, providing a mixed-use, high-density city. The exciting programme includes a new university, the Headquarters for Abu Dhabi’s Future Energy Company, special economic zones and an Innovation Center.

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  • http://www.7aki-fadi.blogspot.com/ 7aki Fadi

    this is great! hope it works and hope it’s cheap to acomplish so maybe some other countries will do it too :)

  • http://amjad79.blogspot.com/ amjad mahfouz

    nas fahmaneh, Saudi Arabia is very jealous, they should open up like UAE

  • http://amerabian.wordpress.com Amerabian

    The United Arab Emarites is one of the few -if not the only- country is the world that really pays huge attention to the well being of its people. They’re very civilized people, cause they’ve got a relatively clean government.

    Good luck to them,

  • Nasser

    Oh my, talk about repentance, giving that they’ve been producing so much of oil it is just a small small token symbolic gesture to mother earth. On the other hand, I find it gregarious and merry to describe the UAE as a “civilized” because it looks after “its own people.” I am rather concerned about those serving the UAE great and honorable people.
    Who’s looking after them Zero-carbon cheikh Mo?

  • seeba

    ya 3ammee ABU DHABI dar el hannnna wel 3ezza
    maaann a’7 bas shoo jabni la hoon
    but 1 year to go and abu dhabi HERE I COME AGAIN :D