Comments on: AIA Names Saudi's KAUST In 2010 Top Green Projects https://www.greenprophet.com/2010/04/aia-names-kaust-in-2010-top-green-project/ Sustainable news for the Middle East Fri, 27 Mar 2015 10:54:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Bruce Salter https://www.greenprophet.com/2010/04/aia-names-kaust-in-2010-top-green-project/#comment-1029422 Fri, 27 Mar 2015 10:54:47 +0000 http://www.greenprophet.com/?p=20307#comment-1029422 In reply to divergio.

Nice observation of what’s really going on behind the ‘green-wash’. Very well put.

]]> By: divergio https://www.greenprophet.com/2010/04/aia-names-kaust-in-2010-top-green-project/#comment-7309 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:57:44 +0000 http://www.greenprophet.com/?p=20307#comment-7309 Another problem is that only the research area was built “green.” The residential homes are incredibly wasteful. Not only were they not built to LEED standard, but there are many three story apartments for a single person, requiring three air conditioning units, or sliding doors on the apartment complexes that are left open most of the day, refrigerating the outdoors. There is still a mindset of waste here that will take a lot more work to get rid of. After sitting in on presentations of the architects, the effort just to get LEED on the main campus in this country took monumental efforts. There just isn't the infrastructure for building green like you might find in developed countries.

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