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Salim, who has won the Karnataka Government award for building design, said energy-saving and ecology-friendly architecture is best-suited for the UAE and the Middle East.
He claimed that traditional Indian architecture, which is cost-effective and environment-friendly, would be suitable for region. Cost-efficiency in constuction can be achieved through optimimum utilisation of resources, technologies, materials. Salim said large-scale use of glass for building façade in the Middle East needs to be restricted as such buildings consume lot of energy. “Glass architecture is not only expensive but also unsustainable given the region’s hot weather condition. Glass facades are suitable for the cold European climate and not for the Middle East which is blessed with abundance of sunlight and heat,” he said. NM Salim and Associates, based in Kerala, has a portfolio of more than 200 projects in India and abroad.
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