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HE Minister of Municipality Inaugurates Green Building Solutions Exhibition
Doha, March 02 (QNA) - HE Minister of Municipality and Urban Planning Sheikh Abdulrahman Bin Khalifa Bin Abdulaziz Al Thani has inaugurated the Doha exhibition associated with the frist conference of the Green Building Solutions and Exhibition Doha,2011 which kicked off here earlier Wedensday.
Speaking to reporters after touring the exhibition, HE the Minister said the function is inspired by the Qatar's 2030 National Vision, which aims to transform Qatar into an entity capable of achieving sustainability in its comprehensive sense.
On behalf of the urban planning and development sector, I would like with great pleasure to welcome our generous guests to this outstanding forum, with its activities that aims to find a common ground for the exchange of opinions and views among specialists and decision-makers, about the best ways to promote sustainable building practices.
The held conference and exhibition on green building solutions in its first version came about from a generous initiative from the Barwa and Qatari Diar Research Institute, at a time where all nations were calling for the creation of sustainable communities. Communities that meet the needs of present generations at the same time provide ways to ensure fulfillment of the needs of the future generations. This is done through the optimum utilization of resources and capabilities available, with an effective and balanced urban development, environmentally, socially and economically to ensure sustainable development.
The planning and urban development sector worked hard on and rigorously sought over the past years and in collaboration with the most prestigious houses of global experience to develop the national framework for urban development, which is designed to create a living environment that provides the best to all segments of society. We believe that the Comprehensive Urban Plan project will undoubtedly create an integrated system of plans, policies and physical requirements of the state, its municipalities and its major and subordinate cities. Also, such plans and policies will drive the urban development in Qatar in the next twenty years to come, HE the minister told reporters.
The State of Qatar, as a result of the high rate of growth in the last decade has faced the challenges of planning are well known to the specialists such as yourselves. For example, the large increase in human population caused a pressuring factor on the infrastructure and service alike. Also note that the construction boom that took place was accompanied by many environmental challenges that we have not enough time to list today.
The issue of achieving sustainable development in its various aspects imposes with no doubt the combined efforts of all governmental institutions and non-governmental organizations, in order to translate these goals into policies, strategic tools and practical programs that lead us to our target. We would like in this regard, to thank the Barwa and Qatari Diar Research Institute, for its wonderful initiative that imparted on the development of Qatar Sustainability Assessment System, which has become all praise to God, one of the most comprehensive systems at the global level through its evidence that impose the adoption of the (green buildings) concept in all types of buildings typologies and also through the guide to city planning and urban development known as (QSAS Neighborhoods).
The latter mentioned is considered an integrated system to assess the extent to which any town or city has complied with the strategic objectives referred to above adopted by Qatar National Master Plan. The Institute worked under an ongoing guidance of experts in urban planning sector to include the largest possible degree of sustainability criteria emphasized in QNMP, and to make sure of complete harmonization between QSAS neighborhood scheme and QNMP guidelines.
Our organizations, the UPDA and BQDRI are in the process of studying the integration more closely and in a form that serves the developmental objectives of the State of Qatar, hoping to reach a common formula in the near future.
In conclusion, I cannot stress enough our assurance to you that our support is unlimited in your constructive journey, and we hope to fold your conference records with recommendations and constructive decisions sketching the route for a new journey its ultimate goal is sustainable development. I also hope that the initiative of Barwa and Qatari Diar Research Institute is set as a model reflecting the participation of the private sector with trends and programs of the public sector to achieve the aspirations of the citizens and residence of this generous country.
Speaking to reporters after touring the exhibition, HE the Minister said the function is inspired by the Qatar's 2030 National Vision, which aims to transform Qatar into an entity capable of achieving sustainability in its comprehensive sense.
On behalf of the urban planning and development sector, I would like with great pleasure to welcome our generous guests to this outstanding forum, with its activities that aims to find a common ground for the exchange of opinions and views among specialists and decision-makers, about the best ways to promote sustainable building practices.
The held conference and exhibition on green building solutions in its first version came about from a generous initiative from the Barwa and Qatari Diar Research Institute, at a time where all nations were calling for the creation of sustainable communities. Communities that meet the needs of present generations at the same time provide ways to ensure fulfillment of the needs of the future generations. This is done through the optimum utilization of resources and capabilities available, with an effective and balanced urban development, environmentally, socially and economically to ensure sustainable development.
The planning and urban development sector worked hard on and rigorously sought over the past years and in collaboration with the most prestigious houses of global experience to develop the national framework for urban development, which is designed to create a living environment that provides the best to all segments of society. We believe that the Comprehensive Urban Plan project will undoubtedly create an integrated system of plans, policies and physical requirements of the state, its municipalities and its major and subordinate cities. Also, such plans and policies will drive the urban development in Qatar in the next twenty years to come, HE the minister told reporters.
The State of Qatar, as a result of the high rate of growth in the last decade has faced the challenges of planning are well known to the specialists such as yourselves. For example, the large increase in human population caused a pressuring factor on the infrastructure and service alike. Also note that the construction boom that took place was accompanied by many environmental challenges that we have not enough time to list today.
The issue of achieving sustainable development in its various aspects imposes with no doubt the combined efforts of all governmental institutions and non-governmental organizations, in order to translate these goals into policies, strategic tools and practical programs that lead us to our target. We would like in this regard, to thank the Barwa and Qatari Diar Research Institute, for its wonderful initiative that imparted on the development of Qatar Sustainability Assessment System, which has become all praise to God, one of the most comprehensive systems at the global level through its evidence that impose the adoption of the (green buildings) concept in all types of buildings typologies and also through the guide to city planning and urban development known as (QSAS Neighborhoods).
The latter mentioned is considered an integrated system to assess the extent to which any town or city has complied with the strategic objectives referred to above adopted by Qatar National Master Plan. The Institute worked under an ongoing guidance of experts in urban planning sector to include the largest possible degree of sustainability criteria emphasized in QNMP, and to make sure of complete harmonization between QSAS neighborhood scheme and QNMP guidelines.
Our organizations, the UPDA and BQDRI are in the process of studying the integration more closely and in a form that serves the developmental objectives of the State of Qatar, hoping to reach a common formula in the near future.
In conclusion, I cannot stress enough our assurance to you that our support is unlimited in your constructive journey, and we hope to fold your conference records with recommendations and constructive decisions sketching the route for a new journey its ultimate goal is sustainable development. I also hope that the initiative of Barwa and Qatari Diar Research Institute is set as a model reflecting the participation of the private sector with trends and programs of the public sector to achieve the aspirations of the citizens and residence of this generous country.
