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ensure the building was resilient against current and
future flooding scenarios. In addition, comfort, health
and wellbeing were made a design priority. Strategies
include large areas of green roof which will require no
decreasing the urban heat island effect. It is hoped this
method of collaborative design can be a blueprint for
many future Dar Group projects.
An ongoing example of the
London Sustainability Group's
integrative work is the Dar
Sustainability Intranet Portal.
Dar employees may already be
familiar with this tool, which aims
to cover all scales of resilience
planning. We previously reported
on the new portal (Dar Magazine:
Issue 9), and since then the team
in London have been working
closely with the Geographic
Information System and
Information Technology teams in
Beirut to develop a new mapping
application and to upload several
new research and training
materials. The end goal is to
develop a fully integrated design
process where Sustainability and
Resilience analysis can be carried
out increasingly automatically
on the portal, and easily shared
with all relevant members of the
design team.