Dubai / Emirates Business Emirates Green Building Council — an independent forum aimed at conserving the environment by strengthening and promoting green building practices — has joined hands with Heriot-Watt University to host a forum for students to highlight the importance of green building industry. At the forum, graduate and undergraduate students from Heriot-Watt University, American University of Sharjah, The ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business The world’s first research facility to grow both food and fuel, using desert lands irrigated by seawater, began operations on a 2-hectare site in Masdar City in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The facility, operated by Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, is funded by the Sustainable Bioenergy Research Consortium (SBRC), a group advancing the ...

Emirates Business “With a logistics market worth $27 billion and vast transport infrastructure projects underway, the UAE is set to become an undisputed global hub for trade,” commented Jamie Hosie, Project Director, ahead of the second edition of The Cargo Show MENA, which is taking place alongside Middle East Rail on March 8 and 9. “Multimodal transport infrastructure investment in ...