provide for the consumption at optimal sustainable levels. Redefining the central open area to a green area, and transferring it from the previous function as a central car parking participated in recording a significant reduction in the CO2 production levels, recording a 15 %, grounded according the 4 environmental aspects behaviors as a whole. This is mainly due to the other sources of CO2 emissions of individual household activities, as previously discussed within this paper. A very important issue that has to be stated within this study’ s scope, is the fact that CityCAD cannot measure the additional enhancement status of a sustainable environmental improvement within the community that can be achieved by the individual residents efforts in increasing all appropriate behavior that maintain the optimal level of a sustained environmental setting.
As this study’ s main subject has been dealing with a community, the awareness of the sustainable environmental status of the neighborhood and having ways to enhance should be a main target for any future community developments. The human is at centre of any sustainable development and increasing the sustainable awareness leads to a noticeable progress in people’ s behavior and consumption patterns within a community of a responsible reference.
Conclusion
This section bundles up the most direct methodologies that encountered a recognizable change in the sustainable environmental behavior of the analyzed case study community. The approaches that are to be clarified below are extracted from the mentioned processes, connecting all dots of this study. It is important to re-emphasize on the fact that this study’ s virtual technical implementation process has been done by an existing framework under the current regulations of Estidama, moreover this was applied on a case study community that is formed by futuristic parameters and onwards vision specification for the upcoming Abu Dhabi 2030. This draws a true authentic dimension towards the feasibility of future efforts to adopt this study’ s results and its produced sustainable environmental bundle to be applied on existing communities in order to behave their most archival optimal sustainable level, hence opposed to minimal amendments possible as not to jeopardize the current form, design and layout of any community outside the logical and realistic measures.
This study also puts in consideration, in establishing the sustainable environmental package, the ability to be implemented within any communal development of the futuristic vision of Abu Dhabi 2030. Although the provided solutions are extracted from one specific neighborhood case study and by using one specific environmental evaluation software, that should not mean that the to be established modular solution bundle cannot be implemented in any community forming projects. A very important approach is to increase the planted trees among the neighborhood. A good way to do this is to establish a central open green area that can also host some social exercises, strengthening the social aspect of a sustainable community as well as its environmental face. Environmentally, this approach is achievable and within logical limits of implementations. Not only CO2 levels are reduced due to the plantation but also the underneath shades provide a very good outdoor quality. Building on the above approach, through the specification of native and adaptive trees, develops into the second methodology approach of this study’ s sustainable environmental package.
The use of native and adaptive trees is linked directly with the irrigation needs by not burdening the water consumption with the suggested increase in plantation. The study actually showed that the watering needs of planting 20 trees can still be maintained by a value of less than 2 liters / m2 /
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