The National News
Summary
In the UAE, extreme summer temperatures have been a reality for generations. It is also something that has shaped how the Emirates developed and where it is headed.
Heat resilience has, by necessity, been hardwired into UAE communities. The Emirates has had the advantage of being a young country and this blank canvas allowed it to design cities and buildings in which cooling features were infrastructure, not landscaping.
Examples of this can be seen in Dubai where the Emirates Central Cooling Systems Corporation operates infrastructure that includes an underground distribution pipeline network of more than 430km and 90 strategically located district cooling plants. In Abu Dhabi, the Estidama Pearl Rating System requires efficient building design, especially regarding cooling and heat dispersion. After the exceptional rainstorms of 2024, billions of dirhams have earmarked for drainage projects and other resilience measures
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