UAE’s Emirates Green Building Council (EmiratesGBC), an independent forum established towards conserving the environment by strengthening and developing green building practices, will host a virtual Building Retrofit Training Programme for the Middle East and North Africa region.
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The Building Retrofit Training Programme is a flagship initiative of EmiratesGBC offered in conjunction with Dubai Supreme Council of Energy and Masdar. The program is devised to strengthen knowledge sharing among construction sector stakeholders on the fundamentals of building retrofit and enhancement of energy and water efficiency. It supports to make current buildings significantly sustainable with the help of learnings from leading industry experts.
Ali Al Jassim Chairman – EmiratesGBC
“EmiratesGBC’s Building Retrofit Training Programme is now being offered virtually to ensure that we can continue to educate and strengthen awareness on best practices in building retrofits. By taking the training online, we are able to extend our reach to professionals across the region who can now benefit from the capacity building opportunity. Building retrofit is a critical aspect of building sustainability and will support the UAE’s ambitious targets of Net Zero Carbon in new buildings by 2030 and Net Zero Carbon in all the buildings by 2050.”
The EmiratesGBC Building Retrofit Training Programme offers strategic technical guidance to industry professionals and economically viable methods that can be executed to enhance a building’s overall environmental performance. Participants gather knowledge and skills to achieve improved operational efficiency as well as obtain financial savings.
The program is available in two levels of courses – Introductory and Advanced. The introductory course highlights energy, water, air quality, materials & waste and innovative management aspects of the retrofit program. The introductory course is perfect for building owners, key decision-makers in the construction sector, students and those desiring to improve their awareness of sustainable buildings. Conducted as a one-day course in the classroom, the online course will be divided into two half-day sessions.
The advanced course takes a deep dive into all topics related to building retrofits and also provides Retrofitting to Net Zero as an additional offering. The online Advanced course is delivered as four half-day sessions and is suitable for engineers, architects and technical experts currently managing retrofit projects who wish to improve their knowledge about the retrofit principles and methods. The participants will also take part in an examination and upon passing they become EmiratesGBC certified Building Retrofit Specialists.
In addition, the participants will also get a copy of the EmiratesGBC Technical Guidelines for Retrofitting Existing Buildings, an industry benchmark that works as the reference text of the building retrofit training program.
The online EmiratesGBC Building Retrofit Training courses will launch in July. For more details, visit Emiratesgbc(dot)org or contact the EmiratesGBC team on training@emiratesgbc(dot)org or call on 04 346 8244.
