The aim of the Pearl Building Rating System (PBRS) is to promote the development of sustainable buildings and improve quality of life. The PBRS encourages water, energy and waste minimization, local material use and aims to improve supply chains for sustainable and recycled materials and products.

The PBRS is applicable to all building typologies, their sites and associated facilities, including hospitals, warehouses, industrial buildings, laboratories and hotels. In essence, any building constructed for permanent use and that is air-conditioned must meet the PBRS requirements.

All buildings constructed since September 2010 have strictly followed this system. A rating is given based on the credit points the building achieves with certain specified eco-friendly measures. Sixty credit points win one pearl rating and corresponding higher credits give the rating up to five pearls. 

Buildings in the private sector must attain at least one pearl rating and the government sectors at least two. However, 12 per cent of projects have submitted for a rating higher than their minimum mandated requirement.

Estidama will help turn UAE’s  ambition to create a new generation of sustainable cities into a concrete reality.

Source : www.estidama.org

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