1. Lesson 6 – World Without Water
Learning Outcome
To be able to:
LM Outcome
Creative
All
describe how Dubai is unsustainable
Most
explain how buildings can be more sustainable
Some
formulate solutions to the problems that Dubai may face in the future
Starter
Students to list all the demands for water in a hotel complex abroad.
Input
All Write Round Robin – anything that students already know about Dubai. Locating Dubai and watching a video showing what is happening in Dubai. Using slides to show different features in Dubai and the problems that development there is causing.
Activity
Students to develop a hotel/complex for Dubai that is designed to be sustainable. They are to draw it accurately and neatly and annotate it explain how it more sustainable. Laminate handout with aspects of sustainability on to prompt thoughts.
Differentiation: Lower ability
Stretch and Challenge
LA: Peer support during activity. Laminate showing different aspects of sustainability.
S&C: students to formulate solutions for the future of Dubai.
Plenary
Students to present their buildings – random name to select.
Homework

2. How many different demands are there for water in a typical hotel abroad?
List as many that you can think of.

3. World Without Water! Learning Outcome- To be able to: ASPIRE -
Justify in detail how your building design is sustainable
Challenge -
Design a building which is suitable for a Dubai’s future

5. Dubai – what can you tell me about this city?
All write round robin
Dubai

6. Where is Dubai?

8. What’s happening in Dubai?
Dubai Video

9. Burj Al Arab: It is known as the worlds only seven star hotel
Burj Al Arab: It is known as the worlds only seven star hotel. It is built on an artificial island
Atlantis Resort & Hotel-Atlantis: a $1.5 billion resort development, is located at the centre of the crescent of the Palm Jumeirah. In total, the resort boasts 1,539 rooms and suites. 
Coal fired power station - true

10. Dubai has many artificial islands, the most famous are The World and The Palm.

11. Each branch of The Palm is packed with luxury houses all demanding resources and producing waste.

12. The worlds largest ‘real snow’ snow dome is in Dubai – 3000 square metres of snow!

13. Sustainability means:
“meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”
What does this mean?
Do we think Dubai is a sustainable city? Why?

14. Ecological Footprints – Top 10
1  
United Arab Emirates:
15.99 
2  
United States:
12.22 
3  
Kuwait:
10.31 
4  
Denmark:
9.88 
5  
New Zealand:
9.54 
6  
Ireland:
9.43 
7  
Australia:
8.49 
8  
Finland:
8.45 
9  
Canada:
7.66 
10  
Sweden
7.53 
Ecological Footprints – Top 10
UK = 16th : 6.29
The Ecological Footprint is a method of measuring and analysing resource that are used and waste that is produced.
It represents the amount of land area needed to produce the resources (food, energy and materials) and to absorb the wastes produced by an individual.
The higher the number, the less sustainable a country is.

15. Water Availability – Bottom 10
Rank
Country
Thousand m3
130  
Mauritania:
0.18  
131  
Jordan:
0.07  
132  
Kuwait:
-0.2
133  
Egypt:
-0.24
134  
Niger:
-0.33 
135  
Iraq:
-0.45
136  
Turkmenistan:
-0.49
137  
Sudan:
-0.53 
138  
United Arab Emirates:
-0.91
139  
Namibia:
-1.94
140  
Chad:
-3.28 
141  
Botswana:
-7.46 
Water Availability – Bottom 10
What issues might this bring to people/ environment/ businesses in the future?

16. Potential problems for Dubai
33 million cubic metres of sand and shell from the sea bed have been dredged up to make the islands.
Sediment moved by the developments have smothered coral reefs and killed many habitats.

17. Potential problems for Dubai
Cheaply available oil is used to desalinize the water (taking the salt out of salt water) that waters the lush tropical landscapes.
Desalinised water is also needed to support leisure tourism and residents.
Massive amounts of energy is used for air-conditioning during the hot summer months.
Oil is used to running motor vehicles in a city designed exclusively for automobiles (which increasingly are stuck in traffic) and not for pedestrians.

18. Potential problems for Dubai
There is a rising awareness that these lifestyles are dependent on fossil fuels.
Dubai's coastal location and low-lying reclaimed land mean it is at increased risk from flooding as sea-levels rise.
The city's location requires an almost total dependency on medium-haul air travel to survive, most visitors coming from Europe and India.

19. Building a Sustainable Dubai
Sustainability means:
meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”
Your task is to build a hotel complex/building that can lead the way for sustainability in Dubai.

20. Sustainable house?

21. You have a help sheet which tells you things you should consider, for example:
energy use, waste production, jobs for locals
You need to consider as many of these things as you can in your design.
Your design must be drawn accurately and neatly and annotated to explain how it is sustainable.

22. World Without Water! Learning Outcome- To be able to: ASPIRE -
Justify in detail how your building design is sustainable
Challenge -
Design a building which is suitable for a Dubai’s future