UAE Business: Digital tech ‘reduces impact’ of the built environment on planet – Gulf Digital News

UAE Business: Digital tech ‘reduces impact’ of the built environment on planet – Gulf Digital News

CRTKL, a global cultural agency specialising in architecture, planning and design, has pledged that 50% of its projects will utilise building simulations by the end of the year.

Effective use of technology in the built environment ensures more sustainable outcomes, says CRTKL, which has highlighted in an industry-leading annual sustainability report three key ways digital technology is reducing 40% of greenhouse gas emissions the built environment is currently responsible for producing.

Innovative measuring

According to CRTKL’s report, Performance of these projects is being innovatively measured and tracked through a digital dashboard. This comes as part of CRTKL’s wider mission to ensure all of its projects are climate positive in operation by 2030, and in materials by 2040. It is aligned with efforts being taken across the region, with a recent survey highlighting that as per 82% of UAE-based IT decision-makers sustainability is now one of their organisation’s most important drivers with commitments made to science-based targets.

Kashif Dafedar, Associate at CRTKL commented: “Digital innovations that integrate design and sustainability hold the key to a carbon positive built environment. This technology is providing climate-specific, low-carbon solutions that reduce emissions, advance the net-zero momentum and establish a planet-positive design standard.”

The three key ways digital technology is