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RFI	Preview	Summary	Company	Date
		Behind the scenes at Masdar City. Every aspect of the city’s urban planning and architecture has been approached with sustainability in mind, with a substantial focus on natural cooling in the way the city has been...		25 Feb 2012
		Masdar City chooses SoFi to monitor carbon in buildings. Commenting on the use of SoFi, Alan Frost, Director of Masdar City, said: “Through SoFi we can monitor carbon performance during construction and quantify...		7 Feb 2012
		EPIC System Sea Water Cell Goes Live. EPIC Green Solutions is continuing to impress on Yas Island, Abu Dhabi with their recently installed sea water plot at Yas Links Golf course. The Paspalum turf was installed on the 17th of...	EPIC Green Solutions	20 Jan 2012
		Tradition meets modernity with Accoya® at the Englebert Strauss Workwear Store in Hockenheim. Roggemann, the German and Polish distributor of Accoya®, supplied 500m2 of this high technology wood for the project. The wood was additionally coated with...	Titan Wood BV (Accsys Technologies)	18 Jan 2012
		Masdar PV used micromorph technology and full-sized thin film modules for 11.7 MWp project. Based on Applied Materials' SunFab 5.7m2 (Gen 8.5) thin film module technology, over 50% of the 50,000-plus modules used in the project were said to have been...		16 Jan 2012
		Masdar year 1 review of the PRT system. On November 27th the first year of Operations and Maintenance of the PRT system at Masdar City was concluded. Over the year the system carried over 230,000 passengers, including VIPs such as His Highness General Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed...		8 Dec 2011
		Masdar City's solar power plant is net exporter of energy to UAE. The largest photovoltaic (PV) plant in the MENA region located in Masdar City has hit all performance targets in the first two years of its operations, demonstrating that utility-scale PV plants in the region are viable...		13 Nov 2011
		Masdar tests geothermal energy for green city. One of the most exciting projects at Masdar City was the exploratory drilling deep underground to test the availability of sufficient, and sufficiently hot, geothermal water to be used in thermal cooling and domestic hot water...		4 Sep 2011
		Catching a Ride in a Driverless Electric Vehicle. You sit down on leather seats and push another button to close the doors. With a warning beep, the car glides out of the glass box backwards and stops, then starts forward, gaining speed along with an increasing whine from the electric motor...		3 Sep 2011
		Masdar turns to Sun's Heat to Cool Buildings. Masdar has successfully activated a proprietary double-effect solar thermal cooling system – the first in the Gulf region and one of only a handful in the world – to test the viability of using the sun’s heat to cool buildings at Masdar City...		8 Jul 2011
		The Gates to the City. The gates along with external cladding and screens at Masdar City are made from Palmwood a more sustainable alternative to exotic and hardwood timber. The timber is harvested from coconut palm tree plantations once the trees stop producing nuts, around 70 to 80 years...		17 Jun 2011
		A Greener Way to Build the Future - Steel Reinforcing Bars. Masdar City in selecting construction materials, wanted to show that major environmental savings can be made without any additional cost. For example, many already know that steel reinforcing bar...	Emirates Steel	9 Jun 2011
		Holes in the Wall. Windows offer us benefits we can’t do without, but there is no getting around the fact that they are holes in the wall, reducing overall R-value and creating opportunities for air leakage and unwanted solar heat gain. When it came to the Masdar Institute buildings, we wanted a visual...	Ludwig Häußler GmbH	7 Jun 2011
		Adding Green Concrete to the Mix. A few eye-opening facts about concrete: the concrete industry is the largest user of natural resources in the world, and Portland cement, a key ingredient in most conventional cement, accounts for roughly five percent of all carbon...	AL FALAH Ready Mix Factory LLC	1 May 2011
		Green Aluminium Extrusions for Masdar Institute Field Station. Gulf Extrusions, one of the largest extruders in the GCC, will manufacture approximately 14 tonnes of green aluminium extrusion for the field station façade, using a 6063 Alloy with T5 Temper. The green extrusions...	Gulf Extrusions Co LLC	21 Apr 2011
		Masdar City Case Study - Green Elevators Efficient vertical transportation systems are vital to overall building design. It is not simply a matter of having enough elevators they must also be energy efficient and specifying key components and system features correctly can achieve significant results. Working with Masdar’s supply chai...	ThyssenKrupp Elevator UAE LLC	1 Mar 2011
		Reverse sustainable logistics - Designing out waste and taking back insulation to benefit the environment. Reverse sustainable logistics - the process of moving goods back from their final destination toward their point of origin for the purpose of capturing value is a critical part of product lifecycle management.	Kuwait Insulating Material Manufacturing Co (KIMMCO)	20 Jan 2011
		Masdar City Case Study - Estidama SM-12 Reused or Certified Timber. Architects, Engineers and Contractors are looking increasingly at the environmental impact of their projects now that Abu Dhabi is mandating buildings to be built to sustainable standard, and Estidama has launched its Pearl Rating System which aims to address the sustainability of a given developmen...	Oceanic General Trading LLC	11 Jan 2011
		Masdar City Case Study - Estidama SM-10 Recycled Materials - Other Materials. Recycling is the process whereby a valuable resource is returned to its original state with its full properties, for infinite reuse. Recycling conserves natural resources by reducing the demand for raw materials, conserves energy and water since manufacturing with recycled materials requires less p...	Gulf Extrusions Co LLC	10 Jan 2011
		Masdar City Case Study - Paints and Coatings - Estidama Credits. Paint, is one of the core materials, used extensively in all projects. Paint contributes significantly to help improve indoor air quality by using Low VOC formulations and toxic chemicals, withstanding extreme levels of UV light, various levels of humidity and corrosion and other environmental pollu...	Jotun Abu Dhabi LLC	10 Jan 2011