Bio-Sustainability and Resource Recovery – Foundations for a Sustainable Environment

The Middle Eastern region has experienced substantial growth over the past five years, resulting in the creation of new residential, commercial and industrial communities that have attracted global enterprise and social development. This rapid growth has created environmental and socio-economic challenges that need to be actively managed and harnessed. Bio-Sustainability and Resource Recovery are key foundations on the basis of which governments and the private sector can respond to the exponentially growing requirement for treatment and management of solid and liquid wastes. This presentation will cover the business and technological solutions to harness significant opportunities arising from effluent reduction and recovery of valuable resources from domestic and
industrial wastes.

Amyn S. Dahya, P.Eng.
Chief Executive Officer
UtilEco-ICP Group of Companies

Caroline May
Partner
Norton Rose, (UK)

• Introduction to industrial ecology
• Industrial ecology and
  cement production
• Range of waste covered by recovery in cement kilns
• Key success factors for waste recovery in cement kilns
• Overview of the Lafarge experience in industrial ecology
• Dominique Bernard
  SVP Industrial Ecology
  Lafarge SA

Dominique Bernard
SVP Industrial Ecology
Lafarge SA

• An outline about UAE and Dubai as a city
• Defining and classifying the solid waste in Dubai
• Addressing the challenges facing solid waste and
  sorting & recycling industry in Dubai
• Introducing Tadweer as the first sorting & recycling plant in the region
• Overview of Tadweer
• recycling projects
• Exploring long term project within Tadweer to handle solid waste in Dubai.

Lina Chaaban
EnviroCare Manager
Tadweer Waste Treatment LLC

Effective Waste Management Audits ENOC Case Study

• The ENOC Waste
  Management Corporate Guidelines
  Waste Management
  Philosophy
• Waste Management
  Auditing, Audits and their importance
• Case studies relating to how waste management makes business sense to an organization
• Introduction to the ENOC Waste Management Audit Tool for Industry

Eng. Waddah S. Ghanem
Group EHSQ Compliance Manager
Emirates National Oil Company Ltd.

Sustainable deconstruction methods Construction Demolition Waste Management and
Recycling for Sustainable
Concrete Construction Practice

• Construction and
  Demolition Waste
• Environmental Impacts
• Sustainability Targets (reuse of built assets, lean
  construction, energy in construction / in use etc.)
• Recycled Aggregates:
  Opportunities and Challenges
• Rating the Sustainability
• Enabling / Facilitating
  Sustainability
• Examples of Best Practices (Case Studies)

Waste Management in Yemen: Experiences, Risks and Chances

Waste management process in Yemen is reflected through a good legislative and institutional package (e .V. National Strategy for Hazards Waste Management, National Strategy of Solid Waste Management, de-central Cleaning Founds…) and also by some private but still primitive investment in very limited cities, which provides a good and various chances to investment and development…on different levels. It is an institutional Issue but also economic investment, academic and training program as well as a case of local and international commitment. This presentation will also cover investment opportunities of waste management in various fields.

Dr. Eng. Sadek Almahdy
Advisor
Ministry of Water & Environment, Yemen

Key features for successful project financing of Waste to Energy plants

• Structuring a project
• financing for Waste-to-Energy (WTE) plants
• Project financing of Waste to Energy (WTE) plants: project requirements and risk assessment
• Key features for a successful project financing of WTE plants
• Project financing: main terms and conditions
• Case study: Project Financing of an Italian Waste-to-Energy project

Giovanni Terranova Senior Manager FORTIS – Merchant Banking – Global
Energy Group

Where is the Carbon? Understanding and Measuring the Embodied Carbon Impact in the Design and Construction of
Buildings.

Large building companies recognize that climate change has become a top public policy issue in the developed world.
Regulators in all regions are moving toward tougher standards for real estate development projects, and are requiring builders to understand and account for embodied carbon emissions and other environmental impacts in a more holistic manner. dcarbon8 will present some of the world’s first analyses using detailed supplier specific data enabling them to recommend absolute opportunities for improvement in the design and construction processes. Case studies will also be presented to demonstrate the benefits seen by businesses and for the industry as a whole.

Andrew Marris
CEO
dcarbon8 Ltd

Collection of Urban Waste
water via Vacuum Sewerage: Case Study of the Palm Jumeirah, an Environmentally Sustainable Example.

The use of vacuum sewerage technology to collect domestic wastewater from the urban dwellings on the Palm Jumeirah project. The case study will include the advantages of using vacuum sewerage over the traditional gravity collection system, especially on reclaimed or manmade islands that are popular in the region.

Mohanned Awad
Business Development Director
Corodex

Carbon Capture For Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) & Environment Protection

• Reservoir integrity
• Enhanced oil recovery
• CO2 sequestration
• Environmental protection
• Greenhouse gases
• Health safety and environment
  

Dr. Michael Ohadi
Provost & Acting President
The Petroleum Institute

How can Partnering / Alliancing Improve Sustainability and Reduce Waste?

• Can construction
  procurement encourage waste reduction?
• Are sustainability/waste reduction targets
  contractually enforceable?
• How to turn good ideas into binding
  commitments?
• How to measure and
  reward success?
• From single projects to frameworks
• From capital projects to integrated asset
  management
  
  
  
  

David Mosey
Head of Projects and
Construction
Trowers & Hamlins

Case Study on The Strategic Tunnel Enhancement
Programme (STEP)

• Background on ADSSC’s Capital Investment Programme
• The need for STEP – the programme drivers
• STEP – what it is and how it will operate the benefits of STEP
• The main components of STEP
• How and when STEP will be implemented
• Use of Programme Management
• Numbers andtypes of construction contracts Delivery timetable

• Construction methods that will be used
• Current status

Robert Marshall
Principal Programme Manager
CH2M HILL

Case Study of Masdar’s Carbon Emission Reduction Project

• Masdar Waste reduction targets
• Waste transportation
  Options for treatment of solid waste
• Options for treatment of liquid waste
• Integration of waste
  treatment with energy and water utilities
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Case study: Utilisation of Waste Oil Stored in Open Pond During 2nd World War By  Bapco Refinery in a Cement Plant in  UAE During Gulf War.  “Options of Using  Waste as Alternate Fuel in
Cement  Industry”    Necessity  is mother of
invention and innovation key to survival. conditions by gulf war a cement factory UAE  was forced to use oil from Bahrain open ponds stored for 45 years  as fuel and how 300000 tons of oil used  avoiding  a big Environmental  impact. 
| Arabian Peninsula is the highest producer of waste per capita. Waste disposal is a big problem in cement industry as use of waste as alternate fuel for
cement burning and options. With massive construction and increased waste generation per capita highest with no alternatives to dispose waste, cement industry can use all waste as alternate fuel. There is a need for synergy partnership  between cement industry, municipalities and waste collecting companies, NGOs like FEA , and cement producers to use waste as
alternate fuel and  solve a big issue affecting quality of life and reducing environmental impact 

Alexander Koshi
Senior Works Manager
Arabian Gulf Cement Company (A ETA _STAR Cement Group

Existing practices and
sustainable approach to
segregation at source a way forward

• Waste disposal and Management existing practices in the region
• Limitation to segregation at source
• Advantages on segregation at source Practices followed in western countries
• Importance of awareness on governmental
• Regulation and recycling initiatives to general public and private/public companies

Prakash S. Parab
General Manager – Waste Management Services Dulsco LLC

Case Studies:
Using Proper Specifications & Procedures to Minimise Solid Waste

Violation of Relevant
Specification & Procedures Lead to Catastrophic Failures that Result Fatalities and Large Solid Waste! Several Case
Studies/Examples will be
Highlighted and How to Avoid them in Future!

Ubaidallah S. Alghamdi
President
Arabian Fuels Technology
Center

Lean Management: Process Efficiency and Effectiveness can reduce waste

• Lean Management, Quality Management, and
  Environmental Issues
  
• Environmental Impact on Processes
  
• Environmental Impact on Values and Financials

Dr. Andreas Seiser
Chief Financial Officer
Emirates Environmental
Technology Co. LLC

Life Cycle Assessment Leading to
Eco-designed and
Eco-labelled Goods for the Green Market

Environmental
Management Tools and Techniques – LCA,
Eco-design and Eco-labels

Regulatory and Market Trends for Environmentally Preferred Products

Establishing the Necessary Systems for Production and Marketing of
Environmentally Preferred Products

Challenges of Developing Economies in the
Introduction of LCA and Eco-labels



Dr. Chen Sau Soon
Senior General Manager
Environmental & Bioprocess Technology
SIRIM Berhad ( Malaysia )

Case Study : Innovative waste management through Industrial Symbiosis

The Symbiosis Concept:
One company’s by-product becomes an important resource to one or several of the other companies in the Industrial Symbiosis network. The outcome is reduced consumption of resources and a significant reduction in environmental strain. Cooperation generates better results and makes it possible for each enterprise to increase production without necessarily to increase the use of energy, water and new raw materials. The basis of the Industrial Symbiosis cooperation in Kalundborg is openness, communication and mutual trust between the partners. The Symbiosis Institute assists and facilitates the companies identifying new activities improving the environmental performance.

John Kryger
Director
Kalundburg Symbiosis Institute

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“Legislation, Enforcement and Impact”

Panel Discussion
Moderator : Tareq Emtairah, Research Engineer/Senior Consultant, International Institute for Industrial Environment Economics.
Panelist : Caroline May, Head of Environment, Safety and Planning, Norton Rose LLP
Dr Mohammad Albeldawi, Head of Environment, Ras Laffan Industrial City
Dr. Sadek Almahdy, Advisor, Ministry of Water & Environment Yemen

Session 1: Policies and Legislation
Policy development and negotiations

Session 2: Implementation needs
Legal consequences of local and international sustainability initiatives and legislation

Monitoring & Control: Regulatory Requirements for addressing Environment, Health and Safety Matters

• Key objectives and design aspects of such systems
• Types of industries or facilities that are regulated and the permitting process
• Benefits of an integrated approach vs. single media regulations
• Integration of pollution prevention objectives into such systems
• The challenge of defining BAT
• cost and benefits to society and industry
• Administrative challenges and success factors