Energy Efficient Growth in the Middle East

Interview with Paolo Garretti, Managing Director, Garretti Associati Srl.
 
The need to address environmental issues is gradually moving up on everyone’s priority lists. However, it is still too far behind. In the construction world especially in the Middle East and Africa, more energy efficient buildings are both necessary and possibly easier: most of the region is still developing and not crammed with 400 year old buildings, and with year round sunshine. But as in the rest of the world, the costs of building such structures are higher therefore developers need to be incentivised, says Paolo Garretti, Managing Director at Garretti Associati Srl.
 
A sponsor at the marcus evans Infrastructure & Property Development MEA Summit 2010 taking place in Dubai, 25 – 27 April 2010, Garretti discusses the hybrid building and what it will take to encourage more efficient developments in the region.