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9. Recommendations
Based on the UAE’s current status and relations to other countries progress in this field, some recommendations are proposed, and the Energy Green Building Council (EGBC) recommendations
were provided through an interview with the engineer Khaled Bushnaq the CEO of Energy Management Services (EMS) in Table 1:
Technical
Strategies
Legislation & Regulation
Table 1: Recommendations
Policy Term
Experienced Gained
from
Facilitate establishing obligatory building codes for retrofitting the existing buildings.
EU
Facilitate establishing an Energy Performance Certificate EPCs.
EU, USA
Mandate all large public buildings over 1000m2 to have Energy performance certificate and
should be displayed to increase the public awareness.
EU
Facilitate the retrofit for all the government public housing to the 1 pearl Estidama regulations UAE
or equivalent local regulations.
research paper
Mandates upgrades of the least efficient existing buildings in Abu Dhabi & Dubai to a higher
level of energy performance, through restrictions on rental or sale of those buildings with low
energy performance.
UAE
research paper
Benchmarking laws.
USA
Provide subsidies and guarantees to risk- free investment.
USA
Encourage continuous communications between involved parties: government and policy
makers, financial institutions, representatives of the building industry, vendors/suppliers.
EGBC
(Emirates Green
Building Council)
Retrofit different market segments: Residential, commercial, institutional.
USA
Establish a forum for all involved stakeholders for consultation, comments on practical matters EGBC
and policy implementation.
Show leadership examples through accelerated ambitious retrofit for public buildings and all
provided with a displayed energy performance certificate EPC.
USA, EU
Increase the public awareness level through media and different ways of communication.
EU, USA
Provide different package measures that can be replicated in similar cases.
EU, USA
Simplification of Monitoring & Verifications protocols to suit the local conditions.
EGBC
Ensure of compliance with building regulations.
EU
Provide measures that are flexible to be enhanced in response to new technological
measures.
EGBC
Provision of access to database or data bank.
EGBC
Fiscal / Financial
Provision of standardized contracts, supported by government agency.
USA
A third institution (DEWA) should be between the client and the ESCO. This institution
should be in charge of collecting the payment from the client and paying the ESCO.
USA
FiT incentive to pay electricity from clean energy like PVs.
USA
Provision of Green Deal / UAE version.
UK
Replace the fossil fuel subsidies with clean energy subsidies.
EU
Provision of local insurance companies for Energy Performance Contactors (EPCs).
EGBC
Retrofitting existing buildings in UAE: barriers, opportunities, and recommendation
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