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The Sustainability Lounge by EmiratesGBC Podcast

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How Green Buildings Make Living More Affordable for Occupants

In this episode of the Sustainability Lounge by EmiratesGBC, hosted by Mr. David Ramos, Board Member of EmiratesGBC, the council invited a very special guest to tell us about how green buildings improve occupants health and well being. Ms. Aza Elnimah, Associate Director and Technical Lead of Sustainability at AESG, shares tips on how to make living in buildings more affordable not just for occupants to follow, but for developers and designers to adopt.
A key message of the episode is that renovating your space and buying new technology isn’t always better, there are always other ways we can explore starting from our behavior.

Aza Elnimah

Aza Elnimah is the Associate Director of Sustainability at AESG. She leads the technical side of the firm’s sustainability practice across the GCC, and brings more than 12 years of experience to projects ranging from giga developments and luxury hotels to large masterplans, infrastructure, and cultural sites. Her focus is carbon management, building efficiency, and green building certification. She has led Scope 1/2/3 carbon accounting, life cycle assessment, and net zero strategy for clients including Dubai Holdings, SEVEN, Amaala, NEOM, Emaar, and the FIFA World Cup programme. She also sat on the development team for Mostadam, the KSA national green building standard. Aza is an accredited professional under LEED, BREEAM, and GSAS, and has delivered sustainability and certification outcomes on more than 78 projects across the GCC.

David Ramos

David Ramos is the Head of Philanthropy for HSBC Bank Middle East, North Africa and Turkey. Additionally, he represents HSBC as a Board Member of the Emirates Green Building Council and a Council Member in the Mangrove Breakthrough. He has 20 years of working experience as a sustainability practitioner, having worked in consultancy companies linked to sectors as chemical, manufacturing and working closely with the public administration and governmental bodies. He has also worked in a complex supply chain environment in a fashion leading multinational in Spain, where he initiated their sustainability programme. He has now worked in the Finance sector in Middle East for more than ten years. He holds a Master’s Degree in Environmental Sciences by the University of Cordoba (Spain) and a he took a Master’s Degree in International Environmental Sciences by the LUND University (Sweden).

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