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Sustainable High-Rise Buildings Webinar

this is the word that I want to start with, is to thrive about, to elaborate about the word sustainability, that most of our talk today will be around.Yeah, so there is the email of Ms. Safa and engineer Ibrahim.So like in materials, we use timber crete, recycled steel, the energy we used mirrored ducts, regenerative drive, and for the water, low flow fixtures and ozone and recycling chutes.Actually, also, Engineer Ibrahim, the visit for Dubai Expo, we did in January, the beginning of this year, we visited the site of Dubai Expo, and masha'Allah, they have implemented a lot, a lot of sustainability approaches in the construction.You may join the internships offered generously by Green Innova engineer Ibrahim Radhi, of course, and insha'Allah, we will always keep this collaboration between us and always learn from you what's the up-to-date methods in the field.So the residential building consists of 24 floors and we've got parking levels, the showroom and lobby, as well as the gym and outdoor pool and like terrace area.They have used a mixture between the rubber from the tires, recycled, mixed it with other aggregates to produce it. It gives a very nice look, maybe the architecture people would know it. It looks so nice, the texture wise, and they did it with heels, like they requested the ladies to wear the heels and check the adequacy of it.

Is it going to serve their needs?So, the old electrical and a very, you know, unsafe, you know, electrical water heater is replaced with renewable solar water heater and harvesting the power of the sun.Now, actually, is another pivot point that all the building, all the houses, ministry of housing houses will be built by the exterior installation finishing system, which is a sustainable product.Before, the grid connection for the electricity was done by them, you know, the government, in order to achieve economic scales and make it cheaper.So, now, all of these are now economically viable to install and go to them, you know, their renewable, sustainable, you know, approach in building and constructing building.And for the sake of, you know, promoting that this is work, and we have in Babco, we have a big plant for solar system that I'm thinking also with Dr. Noha and Doha, one day we can arrange a visit for Bahrain students to go there and see.But now, we have rating system which is going to be like certified, silver, old, and so on. And this will be a game changer tool that the valuation, how much this building is valued, will be based on how sustainable is this building.It shades it. And by using this device, we actually reduce the HVAC consumption because we have one more layer in the window, which would reduce the heat transmittance within the window.In order to convey these messages, okay, selling is actually fulfilling a genuine requirement for the end user.Creativity needs somebody bold to do it and go for it. And that's happening, actually, in our region, insha'Allah, and Bahrain as well.So, allow me first before the presentation starts with the engineers, that will focus on a very particular case study, how we have implemented the sustainability work from all direction about, you know, engineers, civil engineers, architects, and to show you about our company and what we does, and what it is doing, and how is that helping also environment.But later on, we end up knowing about projects that was retrofit, okay, to be more, you know, sustainable, and reduce its energy by 70%.One of them is called Certified Energy Practitioner and Certified Solar PV. And we have a program that is really open for internship.You can email Mohsen, Dr. Ramounah, Dr. Abrar, whoever you know from us, and inshallah we will forward the details.You could like adjust it. So we'd be saving about 2,000 bd by using it during daytime in the more dark areas in the apartments.So we're going to be composting and recycling by using a dual duct system, shaft system.But why we want this kind of awareness that I really congratulate Dr. Rohan Doha for making such, you know, a presentation for you to drive.And what end up the engineers in some of these, not all of the engineering offices, but in some of these engineering offices just follow where the money is. And they start compromising on, you know, the standards of sustainability.Like now what engineer Bashair and engineer Doha did, they presented very well showing that, you know, it's not a trade off between sustainability and, you know, saving money.Because before you say, okay, you go to the developers and I'm talking now very much, you know, from industrial point of view, not academia or theoretical point of view.Previously, the word sustainability, you know, was cornered to, you know, when we talk about energy, when we talk about, you know, waste, or, you know, climate waste, and resources a little bit.More on that, you can see the United Nations itself, putting 17, you know, sustainable goals for all the world to look at it and to build on it. So, it's actually a very, very, very important subject for you as a young engineer.But knowing that the world population will be doubled, okay, within only 80 years from now, okay, that's a shocking number.And this is the application that now, and the solar panels that you can see it here, okay, it used to cost four times what it's costing now, okay, just three years back.And we have just installed, you know, 211 villas in Danat Al Baraka project.Now, you have to add how sustainable is this building, how we could reduce, how it can reduce its energy by itself, how it can recycle the water by itself, and so on. So, this is what will be in that building rating system.Maybe Engineer Safa can type her email in the chat, and the student could get in touch with her via email.So Baha and I were actually given a challenging project because it was productivity in the sense of engineering.And to design a sustainable high-rise building could be really challenging because we don't have much roof area and much of the space is occupied by residential space.I don't know if any of you heard about EDEC, but it's the slab in between, you have polystyrene panels.And you also reduce the PV light, UV light, which is actually harmful for humans as well as not very good for furniture.So next we're going to see how we applied it within our building by using water faucets, shower heads, water closets, and washing machine.So we saw an ozone generator, which would kill germs, use up to 90% less chemicals and it's cost effective.So you have sliding pool decks or just a sheet cover or a hydro lift that would actually make you utilize that area.They actually applied it. It's actually applicable in Palestine and in Jeddah.We don't use common spaces very much in a high-rise building, because it's like the corridors, the lights, the elevator halls, the staircases, they're not used all the time.And an annual cost would be about 5,000 bd.

So to reduce it, there's a simple, simple solution, which is the regenerative drive.So what it does is that it generates electricity when the elevator shaft is going down, and then it reuses it when it comes out.And I guess that's it.

Then to conclude, this is a diagram that shows you how we solve the sustainability problem, how we made our building through these four pillars.The ones highlighted are the ones that the building contributed in. Okay, so you would be doing a lot, not just for the energy, actually for life on water, climate change, many things.So just to give you an example, we are offering an exterior installation and finishing system, which is called EIFS.So the question is, or the question that you will see it may be a little bit odd, how many of you want to engage in selling incubation or selling a transaction, okay?A homeowner will not buy these sustainable ideas, which is the innovative, which is the new, okay?Zoha also, masha'Allah, this is the way that the graduate should act after graduation, to directly engage, engage in the university.Okay, and not speaking much on it, but it's just for you to know me. So, what we do in Green Innova, we actually have two divisions.The first one is first, how we could, you know, reduce the energy requirements in a building or an establishment.And the shocking number that we are wasting 92% of energy consumption, 92% based on the study of LEED, which is then the Green Building Council in America, that 92% are waste of the energy and water.Why we don't establish sustainable building or sustainable establishment at the very first?Okay, so we don't waste in order to rectify So, actually, your mission, once you go to the world, you young engineers is really to go and fight for this.So, this is a brief about us. We are an ISO certified company, and we work with all the governmental approval.We are electrical company approved, and also solar approved company.We are one of the very few company which is approved by United Nations to do energy efficiency, and we will come back to this later.And solar street, solar water heater is now a great popularity.Also, street lighting, we are renovating parks.Thermal insulation is also a very important subject that I'm sure that you have studied.So, we did thermal insulation system for the building in order to reduce the required energy.Also, they put LED light and other items as well in order to reduce the required energy and then power the rest with renewables.Previously, building are being evaluated based on the income of the building.So, I don't know whether how we will be able to connect with you, but maybe in the chat, you put your contact details for Safa, our engineer, and maybe we'll be in touch with you once this program is there.The internship opportunity you gave to our students, the jewels of Bahrain, this is very generous from you.So Mr. Ibrahim actually was our mentor, our supervisor for this project.So Bashar, now we'll continue with you with the materials section.It was actually really hard because we're all used to the conventional materials that are used in conventional buildings.And all these percentages that you see on the screen are a report from Bahrain Supreme Council of Environment.Steel is 100% recyclable in all stages of its life cycle.This logo is where the company provides it in Bahrain.So let's go back to what it's 100% recyclable in all stages of its life cycle.To purchase brand new steel, you would need 220 BD per tonne.But when you use recycled steel, you would need 85 BD per tonne.So by using recycled steel, we would contribute in all these goals.So you understand when you reduce the HVAC costs, you reduce the amount of electricity.But it's made out of timber and recycled concrete.It provides thermal insulation up to six times.It's lightweight, so 2.5 times lighter than conventional blocks.Fire resistance, it means that it doesn't burn as fast as other materials would.Again, the sustainable development goals that it serves.So wherever there is concrete outside in the external walls, wherever there is blocks, we would use instead timbercrete.Okay, so the air pollution in Bahrain, that's another thing.So you can see these are examples where they used this to reduce the pollution around.Okay, and the cost is 250 BD additional.And you can see from the bottom, we were unhealthy on the air quality index, and this would move it to moderate.But we have found a device or a way to eliminate these parts, which would need maintenance and just have the one part, which is the glazing itself.And we're lucky because the southern side of the building is the main facade, which has most of the glazing.So Bahrain is actually one of the water-stressed countries, which means we don't have like a backup plan if we run out of water.So we've proposed a simple yet magnificent solution, which is using low-flow fixtures.So by using this low-flow fixtures, we are reducing the water consumption.And next we're going to see how much the water consumption is reduced within like one household.We're looking and looking for things in Bahrain that we can actually use instead of the chemicals that we would use to disinfect a pool.Isn't ozone harmful to humans?Actually, yes, it's harmful when it's in the O3 form, but when it evaporates, all the O particles, they break down.Otherwise there wouldn't be an ozone generator.So after one year of buying this generator, you would get your money back and we would reduce chemicals by 87%.Additional suggestions for the pool is to make it more sustainable and to make it to have more space when you're using that area, we can use pool covers.We cannot live without energy, but to produce energy, we usually use fossil fuel, which is harmful for the environment because it emits CO2.So the first thing we decided to tackle is the HVAC system, which consumes 50 to 60% of energy in a building, which is huge.And that reduces very much of the HVAC consumption.Lighting is an essential part of a building as well, because we use light all the time, even during daytime, sometimes when we feel that there's not enough light.And we wouldn't need very much structural changes, because the mirror ducts is really thin.And they're going to be applied, as I said, in the halls, the elevator halls, and the staircases.We cannot use any other thing but elevators in the high-rise building, because like staircases isn't very practical.So we have a recycling chute that could have different places to go.

Three is the maximum that we have found.So you can see that some things were very small, like the water fixtures, some of us actually have them at home, we all use water fixtures for the faucets or for the sinks.So the total annual saving for that building will be 126,000 BDs annually.Not only that, but you saw all the sustainable development goals icons.And remember at the beginning in Ibrahim's presentation, he mentioned LEED.So this is why we pulled out the LEED checklist for new constructions.Before I conclude and we go to the questions part, I just want to say that I hope this presentation inspired you.You can reduce your own footprint and it would make a magnificent difference.Well, thank you very much, Meshayir and Jaduha for this amazing presentation.You are always inspiring us with our up-to-date and sustainable construction technologies.The magnificent speakers are, of course, welcoming your questions.So about, this is the building that you haven't seen here yet, but about the ministries that you are working with, are they benefiting from these things that you talked about?Actually, the awareness of sustainability in terms of governments and as well as the companies are growing day by day.So since we have been in the market for the last seven years, we can see an accelerated attention or accelerated interest within the government as well as the private sector in terms of sustainability.So you go to the developers and you tell them, you know, okay, we have this very sustainable, very good.Now, if you make what is exactly what Bashair and Doha said, okay, this is the money.A genuine requirement for the end user.Thank you very much, Walla Engineer Ibrahim.Why not going for a sustainable perspective using recycled material instead of just buying extra new materials?Actually, we are consuming double than the earth is being able to regenerate or reproduce.Ah, Raghib says that he thanks you, of course, and then he says if he can get the PDF copy of the slides, if possible.Okay, and Ibrahim was my supervisor.Right now, I work at NSH, Nasr al-Hajri, in the training center.Zoha also is a graduate from our university, from architecture program, bachelors.Masha'Allah, Zoha.And with your help, actually, giving a hand to them is a great, great, great thing for life now and after our life, insha'Allah, in Jannah.Between the theory, you know, the write up, and between implementation, there is always gaps.So, now, the question is, is how we would not be required to retrofit, to redo things?So, actually, the whole world now in terms of energy, and it's moving to more of decentralization rather than centralization.And for that, government now saying, and all the world now, we need everybody to generate his own electricity.So, we provide A to Z product and services for solar.We have done this installation for solar system.We have in there, we are doing retrofitting and also a new solar street light.But we provide what we call it continuous insulation.So, this is one of our project, Bahrain Airport, US Navy.Bahrain Science Center is a very good example that I want to share with you is that we did a retrofitting.So, in Bahrain, there will be a changeover.So, it is no longer now how much we just pay to build that building, but also how much we will pay on continual basis as operation and maintenance for this building.So, for you as engineer, it is not only enough now to build very fancy, very beautiful, functional building.And we also provide the training specialized in sustainability.You are one of the rare engineers in Bahrain who is always up to date.And inshallah, this will return back to good in you and in your company and in Bahrain, inshallah.And please, anyone, any of our students interested in joining Engineer Ibrahim, and please type your details.You may also, they may also send it via email, maybe.Thank you very much, Engineer Ibrahim.So first, I'll start with an introduction.It was a productivity improvement program.Check Iqtidar's Instagram.So make the building generate electricity for itself.So Ms. Baha is going to start now with the presentation.So we were given this sustainability project and we were specifically assigned a high-rise building.And this is a real estate project where the seller wants to sell more space for the client and he doesn't want to waste space here and there.Bashar is a civil engineer.So we were able to combine both our expertise into one project.So our project was located in the safe area, which is a highly dense area.There are a lot of cars, a lot of buildings and lots of pollution.So sustainability in architecture.Ibrahim was very generous and explained sustainability.So I would just add a little point and that sustainability in architecture is basically having the building have less negative impact on the environment.We actually looked for sources to follow on because sustainability is a very deep topic.And we actually followed this exact same pillars like we've got material, then the site.The site, we couldn't do much with it because it was already selected and the design was already made, but we were able to do other things.So what are the materials that you're going to use in a building to make it sustainable?So we thought very creatively and I will share now the approaches.So whenever a building is being torn down or whenever some materials are not used in building a specific building, all these waste go to landfills.And I'm sure you can see on top of the screen Crown Industrials.So we made sure that we would put as many products you can get them from Bahrain.Sustainable development goals.Again, on top of every implementation, you will see the goals that we're doing again.We'll use it in the place that needs your reinforcements.So if you have any question, any clarification, ask me, please ask me. Okay.Thank you very much, Bashair and Mahmoud for the question.As Ms. Neha said, to just write a note and we'll address them all later.The sound transfers from where, from wall to wall and between the slabs.I'm sure people who live in residential areas know that.So for the slabs, we can use EDEC.It's 40% lighter than regular slabs.And it's very, it reduces the HVAC costs.So we'd use that where an internal, an internal slabs in the slab, all the slabs in the building.It's actually volcanic fibers.To reduce the sound transmission between the walls.So this would reduce the amount of sound transmitted.The carbon footprint.We can use timber crate.Timber crate actually was a very amazing thing when we discovered it. But it looks like blocks.So it's very sustainable and environmentally friendly.When you use recycled things, it's very environmentally friendly.We try to find materials at the same time problems that are happening in Bahrain.So as you can see, Bahrain is the number one most polluted country in the Middle East.So this puts us in the unhealthy air quality index.So whenever the sun hits it, the sun hits the surface of the building, it will make all the pollutants into small debris, and these would just fall off.Okay, and you might ask that, okay, what about the debris?We're going to cover the timbercrete with this self-cleaning cement.So one of the most essential parts of the building, especially in high-rise building, is the glazing.And when we have glazing, we need sunlight.So to solve it, we need to put either internal shading device or external shading device, which means more parts.And also reduces the outside noise, which is important, as Beshire said, because it's in like a commercial area.And it doesn't need much energy to run, so it wouldn't be much of a problem.The only thing that differs is the glare.And we're going to be applying it in the southern side of the building.We use much water in residential buildings.And we consume two times the average water consumption around the world, which is huge.And you can see overall, it's reduced very much.Next would be the pools, which Bashar will explain to you.So Bahar and I were thinking, can we actually make a pool sustainable?So we had this idea that can we at least reduce the amount of chemicals that we use in a pool?Because the chemicals are very harmful to us, to our skin, to our lungs, and even to our clothes.So you might think, oh, ozone generator.So that was a really good idea where we could actually use something that's very environmentally unfriendly and make it better.In high-rise buildings, they normally use the split ducted unit system.But in our project, we have found an incredible solution, which is the geothermal HVAC system.Geothermal HVAC uses the energy within the earth instead of the normal way it runs.It uses renewable energy, which is the geothermal energy.It is not weather dependent because below the earth as well, and we wouldn't need very much maintenance only for the parts that are in the building.Below the earth, we don't need maintenance because the earth protects the system.But we will need a bit of electricity to run it, but not as much as when we use the HVAC system.And like typical geothermal systems, they use the water as part of the equation.And so we thought about how we could reduce it. One of the ways is to use natural sunlight.By channeling it within the building, by using mirror ducts.Sunny, cloudy, it's all great.And it wouldn't change very much in the facade, because it's like the same.We're not even certified, we'll get the silver.Masha'Allah.

Sustainable High-Rise Buildings Webinar
 
this is the word that I want to start with, is to thrive about, to elaborate about the word sustainability, that most of our talk today will be around. Previously, the word sustainability, you know, was cornered to, you know, when we talk about energy, when we talk about, you know, waste, or, you know, climate waste, and resources a little bit. But now for the last years, and on an accelerated manner, you know, this word become bigger.
 
And it's now covering the energy, covering the water, covering the material, it's covering the business working companies, it's covering how the countries are working. More on that, you can see the United Nations itself, putting 17, you know, sustainable goals for all the world to look at it and to build on it. So, it's actually a very, very, very important subject for you as a young engineer.
 
And it's actually, we are really building on your ideas to push this forward. Between the theory, you know, the write up, and between implementation, there is always gaps. There is always gap.
 
So, our really job is to fill this gap and put it on reality. So, allow me first before the presentation starts with the engineers, that will focus on a very particular case study, how we have implemented the sustainability work from all direction about, you know, engineers, civil engineers, architects, and to show you about our company and what we does, and what it is doing, and how is that helping also environment. This is a small brief about myself.
 
Okay, and not speaking much on it, but it's just for you to know me. So, what we do in Green Innova, we actually have two divisions. The first one is first, how we could, you know, reduce the energy requirements in a building or an establishment.
 
And the shocking number that we are wasting 92% of energy consumption, 92% based on the study of LEED, which is then the Green Building Council in America, that 92% are waste of the energy and water. And it was shocking for me to receive this number at first. But later on, we end up knowing about projects that was retrofit, okay, to be more, you know, sustainable, and reduce its energy by 70%.
 
So, now, the question is, is how we would not be required to retrofit, to redo things? Why we don't establish sustainable building or sustainable establishment at the very first? Okay, so we don't waste in order to rectify So, actually, your mission, once you go to the world, you young engineers is really to go and fight for this. And on the second, you know, part, we do energy generation from renewables. With the idea of having sustainable building, what do you mean by sustainable building? The new terms that is now showing into that and more specific, we call it net zero energy building, or nearly zero energy building.
 
So, actually, the whole world now in terms of energy, and it's moving to more of decentralization rather than centralization. And why we are saying this? Before, the grid connection for the electricity was done by them, you know, the government, in order to achieve economic scales and make it cheaper. But knowing that the world population will be doubled, okay, within only 80 years from now, okay, that's a shocking number.
 
So, how to deal with that? So, they will require more or less double energy. And for that, government now saying, and all the world now, we need everybody to generate his own electricity. And he should also use its energy to avail for the people who are coming, or these people who are coming will be coming dead.
 
Okay. So, this is a brief about us. We are an ISO certified company, and we work with all the governmental approval.
 
We are electrical company approved, and also solar approved company. We are one of the very few company which is approved by United Nations to do energy efficiency, and we will come back to this later. And this is our client.
 
So, we have been working with them, with many people. This is solar product. So, we provide A to Z product and services for solar.
 
And this is the application that now, and the solar panels that you can see it here, okay, it used to cost four times what it's costing now, okay, just three years back. So, now, all of these are now economically viable to install and go to them, you know, their renewable, sustainable, you know, approach in building and constructing building. So, this is one of the few also leading engineering office.
 
We have done this installation for solar system. And for the sake of, you know, promoting that this is work, and we have in Babco, we have a big plant for solar system that I'm thinking also with Dr. Noha and Doha, one day we can arrange a visit for Bahrain students to go there and see. And solar street, solar water heater is now a great popularity.
 
And we have just installed, you know, 211 villas in Danat Al Baraka project. So, the old electrical and a very, you know, unsafe, you know, electrical water heater is replaced with renewable solar water heater and harvesting the power of the sun. Also, street lighting, we are renovating parks.
 
We have in there, we are doing retrofitting and also a new solar street light. Thermal insulation is also a very important subject that I'm sure that you have studied. But we provide what we call it continuous insulation.
 
So, this is one of our project, Bahrain Airport, US Navy. Bahrain Science Center is a very good example that I want to share with you is that we did a retrofitting. It was an old building.
 
They want to make it sustainable as much as possible. So, we did thermal insulation system for the building in order to reduce the required energy. Also, they put LED light and other items as well in order to reduce the required energy and then power the rest with renewables.
 
So, we have done for this, if you can see, solar system as well as wind system, wind power. Energy efficiency, this is maybe very, very new subject coming on board. And you can see also Beshair is one of the team that is involved in this project.
 
This is a building rating system. So, in Bahrain, there will be a changeover. Previously, building are being evaluated based on the income of the building.
 
So, how much the building generates, let's say 1000, that means its price is more or less. So, it is like you can just relate this number to it in most of the cases. So, it is between 80% of its value is generated per year.
 
But now, we have rating system which is going to be like certified, silver, old, and so on. And this will be a game changer tool that the valuation, how much this building is valued, will be based on how sustainable is this building. So, it is no longer now how much we just pay to build that building, but also how much we will pay on continual basis as operation and maintenance for this building.
 
So, for you as engineer, it is not only enough now to build very fancy, very beautiful, functional building. Now, you have to add how sustainable is this building, how we could reduce, how it can reduce its energy by itself, how it can recycle the water by itself, and so on. So, this is what will be in that building rating system.
 
And you will see that this is example in the presentation forward. And we also provide the training specialized in sustainability. So, we have two certificates.
 
One of them is called Certified Energy Practitioner and Certified Solar PV. And we have a program that is really open for internship. So, as I promised Dr. Nooha, we will be giving special attention for their students.
 
So, I don't know whether how we will be able to connect with you, but maybe in the chat, you put your contact details for Safa, our engineer, and maybe we'll be in touch with you once this program is there. So, thank you very much. We wish you all the best in the presentation now, and you learn a lot.
 
And please do follow us. So, we're all happy to be in touch with you in the journey of sustainability. And microphone is back to you.
 
Thank you very much. You are always unique. You are one of the rare engineers in Bahrain who is always up to date.
 
These people are rare, to be honest. And we want them to grow and be more and more and more in the society. We are inspired by you.
 
The internship opportunity you gave to our students, the jewels of Bahrain, this is very generous from you. It means that you are a giver. And inshallah, this will return back to good in you and in your company and in Bahrain, inshallah.
 
Thank you very much. And please, anyone, any of our students interested in joining Engineer Ibrahim, and please type your details. You may also, they may also send it via email, maybe.
 
Maybe Engineer Safa can type her email in the chat, and the student could get in touch with her via email. Is this a good way? Yeah, I think that's a very good way. Yeah.
 
Or even if they want to share in their name and contact details in the chat, we will connect. Sure. But maybe some of them want to share their mobile numbers in the chat in public.
 
So if you feel you want to. I think maybe by email. By email, yes.
 
Safa, she is here. Yeah, just type your email here in the chat and they will see. Or they can send it to you and you send it to us.
 
Yeah, yeah, it's fine. You can email Mohsen, Dr. Ramounah, Dr. Abrar, whoever you know from us, and inshallah we will forward the details. Thank you very much, Engineer Ibrahim.
 
It was a very, very nice presentation. And now I think, is it with Bashir? You will be next. Yes.
 
Yes, Bashir. Please, the mic is yours. Thank you.
 
First of all, I want to make sure, what are you seeing on the screen? Dr. Anaha, what do you see on the screen? My dear, I think there is, you are opening also the window where it shows the meeting. So if you can bring this down and just keep, yeah, yes, exactly. Now clear.
 
Yeah. Now it's clear for everyone. Okay.
 
Okay. First of all, I want to start with an introduction. Okay, for everyone.
 
Sorry, Bashir, even the small box now which shows that, yeah. Can't I see the chat as well? No. No, no, no.
 
Because it will be reflected on the screen. Okay. Because you are sharing, I think, your whole screen.
 
It's not just the PDF, that's why. Yeah. Okay.
 
So first, I'll start with an introduction. Okay. As you all heard, Mr. Ibrahim just spoke.
 
Okay. So Mr. Ibrahim actually was our mentor, our supervisor for this project. Okay.
 
It was part of Iqtidar's program. So what was Iqtidar? It was a productivity improvement program. It gave the students a chance to participate in a three-month project.
 
Okay. So I encourage you all to check it out. Check Iqtidar's Instagram.
 
Okay. I'm sure Mr. Ibrahim is going to provide you with the details. Okay.
 
So you can send it to them later on. Okay. So Baha and I were actually given a challenging project because it was productivity in the sense of engineering.
 
Okay. So maybe that was hard a bit for us. Why? Because how do you make a building productive? How do you make it efficient? So we chose the sustainability side from the project.
 
So make the building generate electricity for itself. Okay. So that was the approach we took.
 
And Baha, are you here? Baha, do you want to start? So Ms. Baha is going to start now with the presentation. Tell me when you need to scroll down. Okay.
 
Okay. No problem. So hi, guys.
 
How are you? So we were given this sustainability project and we were specifically assigned a high-rise building. And to design a sustainable high-rise building could be really challenging because we don't have much roof area and much of the space is occupied by residential space. And this is a real estate project where the seller wants to sell more space for the client and he doesn't want to waste space here and there.
 
So that was a challenge. And it was great because I'm an architect. Bashar is a civil engineer.
 
So we were able to combine both our expertise into one project. Next. Okay.
 
So our project was located in the safe area, which is a highly dense area. There are a lot of cars, a lot of buildings and lots of pollution. So it was kind of an advantage to us because we were able to create like a more sustainable building in the area and take advantage of several things around the area, which you're going to see later on.
 
Next. So the residential building consists of 24 floors and we've got parking levels, the showroom and lobby, as well as the gym and outdoor pool and like terrace area. Next.
 
And each floor consisted of three one-bedroom units and two two-bedroom units. We were not able to add the plans because it was confidential, but we thought you might benefit from this information. Next.
 
So sustainability in architecture. What is it? Ibrahim was very generous and explained sustainability. So I would just add a little point and that sustainability in architecture is basically having the building have less negative impact on the environment.
 
So how do we do that? We actually looked for sources to follow on because sustainability is a very deep topic. So we needed like an anchor or a source. So the link is like written below the slide, as you can see.
 
And we actually followed this exact same pillars like we've got material, then the site. The site, we couldn't do much with it because it was already selected and the design was already made, but we were able to do other things. So Bashar, now we'll continue with you with the materials section.
 
Okay. So the first approach was materials. So what are the materials that you're going to use in a building to make it sustainable? It was actually really hard because we're all used to the conventional materials that are used in conventional buildings.
 
Okay. So we thought very creatively and I will share now the approaches. First of all, steel.
 
Do you know that the biggest waste goes to construction waste? It's not even the amount of plastic straws you throw in the garbage. It's not the amount of plastic bags. It's actually construction waste.
 
Okay. So whenever a building is being torn down or whenever some materials are not used in building a specific building, all these waste go to landfills. So we're actually destroying our earth by what? Construction waste.
 
And all these percentages that you see on the screen are a report from Bahrain Supreme Council of Environment. So this is actually waste in Bahrain. 38% of waste goes to what? Construction waste.
 
We might not even think about it at all. So what can we do to reverse the effect? What can we do? It's steel. You know we all use it in building all the buildings.
 
It's used for reinforcements. So we thought very carefully and we thought why don't we use recycled steel? Okay. Steel is 100% recyclable in all stages of its life cycle.
 
Okay. And it's cost effective as well. And I'm sure you can see on top of the screen Crown Industrials.
 
These are on top of every proposed solution you will see a logo. This logo is where the company provides it in Bahrain. So we made sure that we would put as many products you can get them from Bahrain.
 
You don't have to import them from outside. Okay. So let's go back to what it's 100% recyclable in all stages of its life cycle.
 
So let's just use it and let's use it again. So when we do that, what happens? Let's see. Okay.
 
First of all, you see this is a very beautiful building and it's made of 90% of recycled steel. So you might think that all recycled steel it might not look as beautiful, but look at this building. So yeah.
 
Okay. So now let's see what happens. To purchase brand new steel, you would need 220 BD per tonne.
 
But when you use recycled steel, you would need 85 BD per tonne. So you know how much you're actually saving. You're saving the environment and you're saving your wallet as well.
 
And can you see on top of the screen? The squares. Okay. These squares represent what? Sustainable development goals.
 
Okay. So by using recycled steel, we would contribute in all these goals. 3, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15.
 
Again, on top of every implementation, you will see the goals that we're doing again. So where are we going to use this? We'll use it in the place that needs your reinforcements. Okay.
 
So anywhere that you would put steel, we'd use recycled steel. That's the first approach. Yes.
 
Yes, ask me. 100%. You have to just bend it the way you want.
 
Okay. Clear? Okay. Okay.
 
And I encourage that people ask me. I love questions. Okay.
 
So if you have any question, any clarification, ask me, please ask me. Okay. Thank you very much, Bashair and Mahmoud for the question.
 
Yet, I believe to keep the questions at the end. So anyone have a question may pop it down in the chat so that the time for questions and answers will be separate. I prefer that.
 
Okay. As Ms. Neha said, to just write a note and we'll address them all later. Okay.
 
Let's move on. So the second thing is noise. Okay.
 
Noise in, it's a residential building as you saw in the beginning. So it transfers the noise. When you're in an apartment, I'm sure the people who live in apartments understand the struggle.
 
The sound transfers from where, from wall to wall and between the slabs. So that's a very big issue. You all know that.
 
I'm sure people who live in residential areas know that. Okay. So it's a very big deal.
 
And can we make it environmentally friendly as well? So can we tackle two things at the same time? Let's see. Okay. So for the slabs, we can use EDEC.
 
I don't know if any of you heard about EDEC, but it's the slab in between, you have polystyrene panels. Okay. It's 40% lighter than regular slabs.
 
Okay. And it's very, it reduces the HVAC costs. Okay.
 
So you understand when you reduce the HVAC costs, you reduce the amount of electricity. Okay. And it's great for sound insulation.
 
So we'd use that where an internal, an internal slabs in the slab, all the slabs in the building. Okay. Again, you can see, what did Brahim talk about? Green Innova supplies this.
 
Okay. So you can get it from Green Innova. And another company called PAL.
 
Okay. All the companies are in Bahrain. Some of them are not.
 
Okay. But we tried our best to make it all in Bahrain. What is Rockwood? From the picture, you can see it's made out of fibers.
 
It's actually volcanic fibers. So it's all natural. And the main purpose was what? To reduce the sound transmission between the walls.
 
Okay. So not only that, it's environmentally friendly. It's all natural.
 
It's fireproof. And it's water repellent. So it's actually safe.
 
So this would reduce the amount of sound transmitted. And at the same time, it will do what? The carbon footprint. Let's come to the implementation.
 
Where are we going to apply them? The EDEC, we said what? In the slabs. And the Rockwood, in between internal walls. Okay.
 
So this is what a typical diagram would look like. A cross-section. Okay.
 
Now let's move on to the blocks. These are, again, all the materials that you would use to build this building. The conventional blocks, I'm sure you all heard of them and saw them.
 
We usually use hollow blocks and white blocks. And these are the U values. The U value is the heat transmittance value.
 
So the lower the value, the better it is. Okay. So what can we do? Can we really change blocks? Actually, we can.
 
We can use timber crate. Timber crate actually was a very amazing thing when we discovered it. But it looks like blocks.
 
It acts like blocks. But it's made out of timber and recycled concrete. So it's very sustainable and environmentally friendly.
 
When you use recycled things, it's very environmentally friendly. Okay. So not only that, does it serve the same purpose? Actually, yes. It provides thermal insulation up to six times. And it soundproofs.
 
It's in a commercial area. It's lightweight, so 2.5 times lighter than conventional blocks. And it's fire resistant.
 
You know, the most important thing is safety. Fire resistance, it means that it doesn't burn as fast as other materials would. So this is an example of a building where they used timbercrete to build it.
 
Beautiful building. Implementation. So as you can see from the small table, the cost of when you would use hollow blocks and white blocks and the cost when we would use timbercrete.
 
So again, going back, the most important thing in engineering, you all know that we're always trying to save money. Make it a very effective, durable building, but at the same time, we always want to save money. Engineers always think about money.
 
Okay, so this actually helps this cause. Again, the sustainable development goals that it serves. And you remember when I said about the U-value? See, it's actually a very lower U-value.
 
So it's very much better for heat resistance. So it wouldn't let in too much heat into the building. And where would it be used? To the solid part of the building.
 
So wherever there is concrete outside in the external walls, wherever there is blocks, we would use instead timbercrete. Okay, so the air pollution in Bahrain, that's another thing. We try to find materials at the same time problems that are happening in Bahrain.
 
So this is the 2018 World Air Quality Report. So as you can see, Bahrain is the number one most polluted country in the Middle East. So this puts us in the unhealthy air quality index.
 
So we're breathing air that's unhealthy for us. Can we do anything about it, at least around the building? Let's see. We can use self-cleaning cement.
 
So what does that mean? It means that it would actually try to clear the pollution in the air. So whenever the sun hits it, the sun hits the surface of the building, it will make all the pollutants into small debris, and these would just fall off. Okay, and you might ask that, okay, what about the debris? Is it harmful? Actually, it's not harmful at all.
 
It doesn't cause any harm to humans or animals. Okay, not only that, it's a very beautiful look. So you can see these are examples where they used this to reduce the pollution around.
 
It's very beautiful. It's white and it's aesthetic. Implementation.
 
What are we going to do? We're going to cover the timbercrete with this self-cleaning cement. Okay, and the cost is 250 BD additional. So that's not very much.
 
If you will consider that people around will breathe a little bit of clean air. And you can see from the bottom, we were unhealthy on the air quality index, and this would move it to moderate. Okay, you can continue.
 
Yes, of course. So one of the most essential parts of the building, especially in high-rise building, is the glazing. We have lots of glazing.
 
And when we have glazing, we need sunlight. So to solve it, we need to put either internal shading device or external shading device, which means more parts. But we have found a device or a way to eliminate these parts, which would need maintenance and just have the one part, which is the glazing itself.
 
So the solution is to use smart glass. Smart glass is a system where it has a film within, and you can control how much light comes in without destroying the view. And you also reduce the PV light, UV light, which is actually harmful for humans as well as not very good for furniture.
 
It shades it. And by using this device, we actually reduce the HVAC consumption because we have one more layer in the window, which would reduce the heat transmittance within the window. And also reduces the outside noise, which is important, as Beshire said, because it's in like a commercial area.
 
And it doesn't need much energy to run, so it wouldn't be much of a problem. So next, we're going to see how it's applied. You can see the difference between the two pictures.
 
The only thing that differs is the glare. There's no glare. You can still see the view, the beautiful view in the high-rise building, but there's no more glare.
 
And we're going to be applying it in the southern side of the building. And we're lucky because the southern side of the building is the main facade, which has most of the glazing. Next would be water.
 
We all know water is an essential part of life. Water is life. We cannot live without water.
 
So it is an important issue, especially that it is a residential building. We use much water in residential buildings. So Bahrain is actually one of the water-stressed countries, which means we don't have like a backup plan if we run out of water.
 
And we consume two times the average water consumption around the world, which is huge. So we've proposed a simple yet magnificent solution, which is using low-flow fixtures. It's really simple.
 
You could do it at your own house, but it makes a big change. So by using this low-flow fixtures, we are reducing the water consumption. We are helping and saving the environment because we're not using as much water.
 
And we're reducing the water waste that comes out of the building. So next we're going to see how we applied it within our building by using water faucets, shower heads, water closets, and washing machine. And you can see overall, it's reduced very much.
 
And next we're going to see how much the water consumption is reduced within like one household. So from going off, I mean one person, from using 503 litres per person to 155. And we're saving about 70% of water as well as cost.
 
Next would be the pools, which Bashar will explain to you. Okay. So the building actually has a pool.
 
So Bahar and I were thinking, can we actually make a pool sustainable? Pools are very expensive. They waste a lot of water and energy. So we had this idea that can we at least reduce the amount of chemicals that we use in a pool? Because the chemicals are very harmful to us, to our skin, to our lungs, and even to our clothes.
 
Okay. And not only that, they're very expensive. So to maintain a pool, you would need 1,900 BD a year.
 
Well, what can we do? We're looking and looking for things in Bahrain that we can actually use instead of the chemicals that we would use to disinfect a pool. So we saw an ozone generator, which would kill germs, use up to 90% less chemicals and it's cost effective. So you might think, oh, ozone generator.
 
Okay. Isn't ozone harmful to humans? Actually, yes, it's harmful when it's in the O3 form, but when it evaporates, all the O particles, they break down. So it's actually not harmful.
 
Otherwise there wouldn't be an ozone generator. Okay. So that was a really good idea where we could actually use something that's very environmentally unfriendly and make it better.
 
Okay. So how much would we actually save? I said cost effective, right? So it would go less from 1,900 to only 240 BDs. And the payback period is actually one year.
 
So after one year of buying this generator, you would get your money back and we would reduce chemicals by 87%. So that's a huge deal. Additional suggestions for the pool is to make it more sustainable and to make it to have more space when you're using that area, we can use pool covers.
 
Not only that, you would reduce the amount of dust that would go into the pool. Okay. So pool covers come in different varieties.
 
So you have sliding pool decks or just a sheet cover or a hydro lift that would actually make you utilize that area. Okay. Bahar.
 
So the next pillar is energy. We cannot live without energy, but to produce energy, we usually use fossil fuel, which is harmful for the environment because it emits CO2. So it is like one of the important points to tackle in this project because it's a high-rise building.
 
It needs much energy to run. So the first thing we decided to tackle is the HVAC system, which consumes 50 to 60% of energy in a building, which is huge. In high-rise buildings, they normally use the split ducted unit system.
 
But in our project, we have found an incredible solution, which is the geothermal HVAC system. Geothermal HVAC uses the energy within the earth instead of the normal way it runs. So what happens is that the earth is a natural insulator.
 
So all around the earth, Bahrain, the North Pole, anywhere you go, when you go below the earth, energy is constant. So we have a constant temperature to deal with. So what happens is that the hot air comes out of the building into the earth, and the earth takes this hot in the air and it returns in a specific temperature.
 
And that reduces very much of the HVAC consumption. It uses renewable energy, which is the geothermal energy. It is more cost effective because we don't need very much energy to run it.
 
And it's way more efficient, 300 to 500. That is way too much because we are using a stable source of energy, which is the earth. It is not weather dependent because below the earth as well, and we wouldn't need very much maintenance only for the parts that are in the building.
 
Below the earth, we don't need maintenance because the earth protects the system. But we will need a bit of electricity to run it, but not as much as when we use the HVAC system. And it also has a high initial cost, but you will see that it has a great payback period.
 
So in our building, we use the direct exchange geothermal system. And like typical geothermal systems, they use the water as part of the equation. But in the direct exchange, we remove the water, which means less parts.
 
They use copper instead of plastic. And we would need less excavation, which is great. So in our building, it's placed.
 
First of all, we're going to see the cases. They actually applied it. It's actually applicable in Palestine and in Jeddah.
 
And they are considering it in Dubai. So it's actually applicable. And it's going to be placed below the building, which is near the foundations.
 
It would be about six years, which is relatively short. And we would be saving about 1 million dinars in a 10-year period, which is huge. Because you're not paying water bills, right? So next, we're going to see a little diagram of where it's going to be placed.
 
So it's like below the buildings. And it's great because the building, they just placed the foundations. It's not built yet.
 
So it's great. Next would be the lighting. Lighting is an essential part of a building as well, because we use light all the time, even during daytime, sometimes when we feel that there's not enough light.
 
So the annual cost is about 2,500. And so we thought about how we could reduce it. One of the ways is to use natural sunlight.
 
So how do we use it? By channeling it within the building, by using mirror ducts. It's like normal ducts that connect light from the outside to the inside. And then you could have a normal light, or you could let it come out in another way.
 
And it says clean energy, no maintenance. And actually, it's very well as all other types. Sunny, cloudy, it's all great.
 
And we wouldn't need very much structural changes, because the mirror ducts is really thin. You could like adjust it. So we'd be saving about 2,000 bd by using it during daytime in the more dark areas in the apartments.
 
Next, we're going to see where it's going to be applied. It's going to be placed on the facade. So the light would come in and would come out in a hidden light, like moves, which is like kind of aesthetic.
 
And it wouldn't change very much in the facade, because it's like the same. We only have a little crease. Next is the common spaces.
 
We don't use common spaces very much in a high-rise building, because it's like the corridors, the lights, the elevator halls, the staircases, they're not used all the time. So we just place an occupancy sensor to be used when needed only. So next.
 
So we're going to be saving about 420 bd, because lights don't have to be on all the time. And they're going to be applied, as I said, in the halls, the elevator halls, and the staircases. And then the next point would be about the elevators.
 
We cannot use any other thing but elevators in the high-rise building, because like staircases isn't very practical. So it's like the main circulation device. And an annual cost would be about 5,000 bd.
 
So to reduce it, there's a simple, simple solution, which is the regenerative drive. It's a little part of the elevator that's placed within the within the parts in the elevator box. So what it does is that it generates electricity when the elevator shaft is going down, and then it reuses it when it comes out.
 
So it's 100% energy used. And it might be even quieter and produces less heat. There are many advantages in it.
 
And we're saving very much. Next, please. The next point is waste.
 
The waste is a very big problem around the world. So in Bahrain, the main place to place the waste is in Asghar. And we produce about 1.2 million tons annually.
 
And we calculated it. And for our building, we are going to produce 300 tons, which is equivalent of six wheels, which is a very huge amount of waste. So we proposed a solution that would need the people of the building to actually apply it and for the building owners themselves, because this is just a simple solution that needs awareness.
 
So we're going to be composting and recycling by using a dual duct system, shaft system. Next, please. So we have a recycling chute that could have different places to go.
 
Three is the maximum that we have found. So it's a really simple solution, but it needs people to apply it. So we could recycle plastic, we could have a compost part and all these things.
 
So this trash, we have specified a specific place for each one of them to go. So next slide will show that. So we're going to be having the chutes from this company, Capella Chutes.
 
And then for recycling, we have three companies. And then for compost, we also have three companies to have the compost to go to, which is like the organic waste. And I guess that's it.
 
Then to conclude, this is a diagram that shows you how we solve the sustainability problem, how we made our building through these four pillars. And each part would like have the little details. So like in materials, we use timber crete, recycled steel, the energy we used mirrored ducts, regenerative drive, and for the water, low flow fixtures and ozone and recycling chutes.
 
Yeah, okay. So as Bahar said, these diagrams, we put them at the end. So you can see that some things were very small, like the water fixtures, some of us actually have them at home, we all use water fixtures for the faucets or for the sinks.
 
And some of them were really, really big, like the geothermal, it was a very big thing. Okay, but when you put it all together, even if they're small little things, you can see how they all come together to make a big sustainable building. So at the end, after finishing all this, after adding all the things that we can save energy in, in the building, what happened? Let's see.
 
So when you give back to your world, actually, it gives you back. So we tried saving energy, we tried saving the world. So what happened? We actually saved in our pockets.
 
So the total annual saving for that building will be 126,000 BDs annually. So in eight years, you'll be saving 1 million BD. So can you imagine that? Who would have thought that when you add one thing and one thing, you'll get 126 annually? Not only that, but you saw all the sustainable development goals icons.
 
At the end, these are all the icons that the building contributed in. So that's amazing. That's almost all of them.
 
The ones highlighted are the ones that the building contributed in. Okay, so you would be doing a lot, not just for the energy, actually for life on water, climate change, many things. And remember at the beginning in Ibrahim's presentation, he mentioned LEED.
 
So what's LEED? It's the Green Building Council. So we pulled out the sheet and we added all the points that we tackled during this project. Okay, so when we added all the points, we got total points of 59.
 
This puts us in LEED silver, we would get the LEED silver if everything was implemented in this project. That's pretty amazing. We're not even certified, we'll get the silver.
 
That's even a step further. Excuse me, is it required to follow this LEED checklist? It's not required. It was an extra step that we did.
 
We wanted to see what our progress was. Did we actually tackle a lot of things? We didn't. So this is why we pulled out the LEED checklist for new constructions.
 
There are a lot of checklists, but since this was a new construction, it wasn't built yet. So we followed this checklist. Okay.
 
Before I conclude and we go to the questions part, I just want to say that I hope this presentation inspired you. Even if you're not going to build a building tomorrow, at least it inspires you to understand the difference you can make as a person. You can reduce your own footprint and it would make a magnificent difference.
 
So I hope it inspired you at least in your day-to-day life. And I would like to thank Ms. Naha for letting us do this presentation and I welcome any questions. Well, thank you very much, Meshayir and Jaduha for this amazing presentation.
 
You are always inspiring us with our up-to-date and sustainable construction technologies. And we will always welcome you every year to see the updates from your side. And from here, I'd like to open the floor for questions by our students.
 
Anyone have a question, please, please don't hesitate to share it with us now. The magnificent speakers are, of course, welcoming your questions. Thank you very much.
 
Hello. Yeah. I would like to first thank you about this presentation.
 
It's really fascinating. But I want to ask you, did you even started on this building or it's just all of a plan? Actually, we did this project a year ago. Okay.
 
So at that stage, the building was still being, the suggestions were still offered to the owner. Okay. So what happened was all the suggestions were offered.
 
Now, it's actually there. I went by and I saw the building. I am not sure.
 
I will check and I will give Ms. Neha the information of how many things were actually applied. Okay. So about, this is the building that you haven't seen here yet, but about the ministries that you are working with, are they benefiting from these things that you talked about? Like, are they started to use, like the ministries that you are working with, they started to use all of that or it's not used yet? Yeah.
 
Okay. Ibrahim, you can answer that. Actually, the awareness of sustainability in terms of governments and as well as the companies are growing day by day.
 
So since we have been in the market for the last seven years, we can see an accelerated attention or accelerated interest within the government as well as the private sector in terms of sustainability. So just to give you an example, we are offering an exterior installation and finishing system, which is called EIFS. And four, five years back, there was zero building that is built out of the system, which is called continuous installation.
 
And we have convinced the ministry of housing to do one building. And so then it was a scale up to all the high-rise building now for the last two years. Now, actually, is another pivot point that all the building, all the houses, ministry of housing houses will be built by the exterior installation finishing system, which is a sustainable product.
 
So the shift is there. Okay. But it's not as we want, I believe.
 
But why we want this kind of awareness that I really congratulate Dr. Rohan Doha for making such, you know, a presentation for you to drive. Okay. We, unfortunately, if you go to the Bahrain market, the main power lies into developers.
 
Okay. The main power lies with developer because they have the money. Okay.
 
And what end up the engineers in some of these, not all of the engineering offices, but in some of these engineering offices just follow where the money is. And they start compromising on, you know, the standards of sustainability. So actually what we are now relying on you as a fresh blood to be able to, you know, to present, you know, sustainable ideas.
 
Okay. Very, very well. Like now what engineer Bashair and engineer Doha did, they presented very well showing that, you know, it's not a trade off between sustainability and, you know, saving money.
 
Okay. Because before you say, okay, you go to the developers and I'm talking now very much, you know, from industrial point of view, not academia or theoretical point of view. Okay.
 
So you go to the developers and you tell them, you know, okay, we have this very sustainable, very good. It's good for the environment. He will tell you, show me the money.
 
Okay. Now, if you make what is exactly what Bashair and Doha said, okay, this is the money. This is the payback period.
 
This is the benefit that you
 
 
People start to be convinced, okay? So the question is, or the question that you will see it may be a little bit odd, how many of you want to engage in selling incubation or selling a transaction, okay? Or be a good salesperson? How many of you? Just answer it between you and yourself, okay? How many wants to be a good sales engineer, let's say? Okay, I think many will say no, because this is, I always get it. And if your answer is no, okay, you know, and your answer is no, you should really wake up, you know, and you should change your idea. You have to be a very good salesperson, okay? In order to convey these messages, okay, selling is actually fulfilling a genuine requirement for the end user.
 
A genuine requirement for the end user. So if you are not a good salesperson, you don't present the ideas as should be, okay? People will not buy. A developer will not buy.
 
A homeowner will not buy these sustainable ideas, which is the innovative, which is the new, okay? So you have to scale up in order to be to the base that we want, you know, to see. Thank you. Thank you so much.
 
Thank you very much, Walla Engineer Ibrahim. Exactly, indeed. The engineer now has to have this public speaking skills that he could sell this idea to the client.
Why not going for a sustainable perspective using recycled material instead of just buying extra new materials? If the recycled ones could serve the need, yeah? Actually, we are consuming double than the earth is being able to regenerate or reproduce. So can you imagine you are going in a hollow, yeah? Yes, exactly. And of course, this kind of reminds me with the way how to pitch a project or a business, you need to convince them through pitching style, you know? Thank you very much, yeah, Engineer Ibrahim.
 
Please, any more questions? Please, if you don't want to share it by your voice, you can type it down in the chat. Ah, Raghib says that he thanks you, of course, and then he says if he can get the PDF copy of the slides, if possible. Yeah, of course.
 
The purpose is for them to learn. Yeah, thank you very much. Bashir is a graduate, to be honest, from our program, civil engineering.
 
Bashir, is it the 2014 plan that you graduated from? 2013, actually. I graduated in early 2019. After that, I went to Iqtidar, which this is the program.
 
Okay, and Ibrahim was my supervisor. And thank God, thank you, Ibrahim, so much. I can't thank him enough.
 
After that, he actually took us for an internship at his company, at Greeninova, which you saw at the beginning, right? So, I thank you very much, Ibrahim, for that. Right now, I work at, yeah. Right now, I work at NSH, Nasr al-Hajri, in the training center.
 
Masha'Allah. So, I'm very familiar with giving lectures. Masha'Allah.
 
Zoha also is a graduate from our university, from architecture program, bachelors. Masha'Allah, Zoha. Zoha also, masha'Allah, this is the way that the graduate should act after graduation, to directly engage, engage in the university.
 
And the thing you did is excellent. Actually, also, Engineer Ibrahim, the visit for Dubai Expo, we did in January, the beginning of this year, we visited the site of Dubai Expo, and masha'Allah, they have implemented a lot, a lot of sustainability approaches in the construction. For example, the footpath where the people would walk, they did not just use the bricks, the usual bricks everyone uses, the red blocks, the bricks.
 
They have used a mixture between the rubber from the tires, recycled, mixed it with other aggregates to produce it. It gives a very nice look, maybe the architecture people would know it. It looks so nice, the texture wise, and they did it with heels, like they requested the ladies to wear the heels and check the adequacy of it.
 
Is it going to serve their needs? And it is really creative. Creativity needs somebody bold to do it and go for it. And that's happening, actually, in our region, insha'Allah, and Bahrain as well.
 
With your students, insha'Allah. Insha'Allah, insha'Allah. And with your help, actually, giving a hand to them is a great, great, great thing for life now and after our life, insha'Allah, in Jannah.
 
A ticket to Jannah, if you agree with me. Okay, okay, so anybody else have a question? They may contact you, of course. You may join the internships offered generously by Green Innova engineer Ibrahim Radhi, of course, and insha'Allah, we will always keep this collaboration between us and always learn from you what's the up-to-date methods in the field.
 
Yeah, so there is the email of Ms. Safa and engineer Ibrahim. Here is it in the chat. You can note it down.