The Emirates Green Building Council currently offers five membership levels, which cater to Industry, Corporate, Individual, SME, and Student stakeholders within the Industry
An EmiratesGBC membership allows you and your staff to take advantage of a broad range of technical, educational and marketing benefits.
EmiratesGBC hosts events throughout the year as a platform for collaboration and knowledge sharing across the industry
Join us at one of our flagship events to network with industry leaders or join a project tour to learn about building innovations in the UAE. Both in-person and online, our events provide a forum for discussing the latest green building topics with like-minded professionals.
EmiratesGBC offers a wide range of training and workshops related to sustainability and green buildings to build capacity in the UAE and wider region.
From our monthly technical workshops to certified training programmes we provide learning experiences to suit both technical and non-technical audiences covering a breadth of green building topics and developments.
The EmiratesGBC Green Building Tooltips is a rich online resource that provides useful information on green building practices.
The tooltips serve an audience of varying levels of technical capacity. All three building types are supported by interactive tip boxes that offer sustainability measures, methods, technologies, and behavioral changes that can be exercised by owners and occupants to improve their structures.
2:00 pm: "From Concrete to Green: Transforming School Grounds for Holistic Education" Webinar
– May 21, 2024
EmiratesGBC Webinar on Outdoor Classroom Day
"From Concrete to Green: Transforming School Grounds for Holistic Education" Webinar
Panel Discussion Brief: To discuss outdoor school spaces from different perspectives, from developers, to urban planners, to landscape architects, and educators, for the purpose of understanding better their importance and their impact and how to ensure their right application.
3:00 pm: How paints and coatings can decrease the operational and embodied carbon of building Technical Workshop By Akzo Nobel materials in the built environment
– May 24, 2024
Presenters :
Vik Vithlani : Infrastructure Lead & Performance Flooring Specialist
Job Coenen : Global Sustainability Manager
Key pointers :
Job Coenen, Global Sustainability Manager at AkzoNobel, is a global expert on green buildings (WGBC Corporate Advisory Board member) and will share the latest insights on making the built environment more sustainable.
He will focus in on global trends and translate these into key opportunities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The seminar will have a specific focus on carbon footprint reduction (operational and embodied carbon) in the built environment and what role paints & coatings play here.
From a regional perspective, Vik Vithlani, the Infrastructure lead from Akzo Nobel in the UAE who will touch on the impressive sustainability credentials of Akzo Nobel.