Masdar-The City of Future

MASDAR
THE CITY OF FUTURE

INTRODUCTION
Masdar City is a planned city in Abu Dhabi, the capital
of the United Arab Emirates.
It is built by Madar, a subsidiary of Mubadala

Development Company which is owned by the Abu Dhabi
government.
It is designed to be the world’s first zero-carbon, zero

waste city.
PILOT TECHNOLOGIES
Masdar City has six technology focus areas:
 Smart Buildings / Smart Grid

Green Supply Chain: Green Supplier Database, Supply Chain
Management System
Transportation: Clean Mobility Infrastructure, Battery
Technologies, Systems Integration
ICT: Sustainability Management System, Smart City Municipal
Operations
Energy-Efficient Lighting
Thermal Energy: Geothermal Cooling
DESIGN
The design of the city features traditional Arab cities
with modern technological advancements.
Energy primarily supplied by the city’s solar power
plants,
District cooling for air conditioning.
Use of innovative materials which are more sustainable
and high performance delivering.
Wet utilities [water, wastewater, re-use water, and
storm water].
Waste management and recycling
The Wind
Tower in
Masdar City
which shows
the citizens
how much
energy the
community is
consuming
TRANSPORT SYSTEM
Pedestrian focused that encourage walking in the
integrated nature of the city.
Travel will be accomplished via public mass transit

and Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) systems.
Abu Dhabi’s light rail and Metro lines passing

through the centre of the city supports ensures no
destination in the city is more than 250m-300m from
public transport.
Driverless, Carbon free Electric Vehicles
BUILDING MATERIAL
Use of 100% sustainably sourced timber.
Use of 90% recycled-content aluminium used for the
inner façade.
Use of Green concrete that uses ground granulated
blasted slag to replace cement.
Reinforcing bars made of 100% recycled steel.
Use of palmwood in structures like gates.
Palmwoods Screens being used Foster’s metal screen for solar shading
ENERGY MANAGEMENT
A 10 MW solar photovoltaic plant is already
operational within Masdar City, the largest such solar
plant in the Middle East. Geothermal energy is also
being utilised.
Water Resources
Management
In phase 1,the targeting consumption is
180 litre/person/day. Water-use
reduction technologies like highly
efficient fittings, smart water metres
that inform consumers of their
consumption are already in use. Almost
80% of used water is recycled.
ARCHITECTURE
Buildings’ facades are specifically designed to reduce
gain.
Direct sun never strikes the facades of buildings,
light is let in and heat is blocked out.
Narrow & winding streets which ultimately reduces
the temperature by 20 degrees.
Certain structures clad in terracotta panels.
Reflective wall panels.
Buildings
incorporating
construction
strategies to
minimize
heat gain
WASTE MANAGEMENT
The city's solid waste is divided into three principle
streams:
Dry recyclables (plastics, cardboard, papers),
Wet recyclables (food and other organic waste)
 Residuals (e.g. toothpaste tubes).
Buildings in the city have three waste chutes to allow for
easy separation into the three main waste streams.
A Resource Recovery Centre (RRC) in Masdar City will
be processing the non recyclables and special waste to
use them for offsite management.
SUSTAINABILITY
Masdar is different from a regular development
because of :
Large reduction targets for energy & water demand.
All aspects of urban planning, architecture, design,
construction and operations are being modified
Major commitment to sustainable products
Piloting several advanced clean-transportation
systems and strategies, including PRT
Comparison with
conventional cities
Masdar city’s Partners
Planning, design, engineering and architecture
partners:- Foster & Partners, Mott MacDonald, and
Sheppard Robson International
Technology and development partners:- Siemens,
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, GE, Schneider Electric,
BASF, Bayer MaterialScience, Swiss Village Association
Pilot project partners :- Sopogy, Yazaki, Mirroxx,
Broad, Reykjavík Geothermal, Swegon, Solatube, 3M
and Targetti.
PROPOSED MASTER PLAN FOR MASDAR CITY
REFERENCES
Lau, Arthur “Masdar City: A model of urban
environmental sustainability”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masdar_City
SURF: The Centre for Sustainable Urban and
Regional Futures. 2011. U of Salford.
Sanford L. “A Tale of Two Eco-Cities.” Modern Power
Systems 2010
“Knowledge Center”. Masdar Inst. Of Science and
Technology.
http://www.masdar.ac.ae/campus/KnowledgeCenter.p
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MASDAR

THE CITY OF FUTURE

It is built by Madar, a subsidiary of Mubadala

It is designed to be the world’s first zero-carbon, zero

 Smart Buildings / Smart Grid

Travel will be accomplished via public mass transit

Abu Dhabi’s light rail and Metro lines passing

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