Subsidies in water and energy in the UAE must end to get people to support green building projects. That’s according to experts at the ongoing Big5 International Building and Construction Exhibition Show in Dubai. They add that the government and some developers are slowly seeing the advantages of building sustainable housing units, but residents themselves need more convincing. Holley Chant is the director of corporate sustainability at KEO International Consultants.
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