Zaim and Associates now offers BREEAM Assessments and Consultancy

Posted by Tamer Zaim on November 8, 2017
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The benefits of BREEAM include:

  • An internationally recognised environmental performance standard for buildings
  • It supports sustainable development strategies and encourages the construction of buildings that use less of the world’s scarce resources
  • It can reduce building whole life cost
  • It enables sustainability to be measured and monitored
  • It improves property marketability and return on investment
  • It helps achieve planning and funding conditions

Detailed information is available from Funda Zaim   For contact details please click here

An amazing example from Austria for achieving Energy Efficiency in Cyprus Hotels

Posted by Tamer Zaim on August 25, 2013
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Cyprus hotels can follow the example of this Austrian hotel to cut their energy costs an start growing their business where it matters. Watch the video “Go Green Get Growing” by Business Planet on Youtube here

Cameron pushes energy efficiency as motor of green growth

Posted by Tamer Zaim on February 16, 2013
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The UK must prioritise growth in “green industries” such as energy efficiency and renewable energy, David Cameron said on Monday.

‘The economies in Europe that will prosper are those that are the greenest and the most energy-efficient’ says prime minister.

Read The Guardian article here

EU makes progress on renewables but UK still lagging

Posted by Tamer Zaim on December 24, 2012
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The European Union is still making progress on renewables, with its energy share increasing to 13.4% in 2011, but the UK is still lagging in the league table of nations, according to the latest figures.

Read EurObserv’ER Press release here

Sustainable energy is answer to wider crisis: EU’s Hedegaard

Posted by Tamer Zaim on January 31, 2012
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(Reuters) – Energy efficiency offers one of the best tools for tackling the world’s debt and social crises as sustainable development comes in from the margins to the mainstream of economic debate, the European Union’s climate chief said on Tuesday. Read Barbara Lewis’ article here at Reuters site

CIBSE Ken Dale Travel Bursary – 2011 winner

Posted by Tamer Zaim on January 29, 2012
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Study looking at sustainability in China and Japan wins CIBSE Ken Dale Travel Bursary

The winner of the CIBSE Ken Dale Travel Bursary for 2011 is Anderson Barcellos, who won the award for his proposal ‘Building for the Future; How China and Japan are implementing energy efficiency into their building industry’.

Full article available here at the CIBSE site.