Description
Assessment #2: Dubai Case Study
Due by 4:30 PM
For the case study, students will prepare an assessment of between 1100 and 1200 words of text, 1.5 spaced. Each case study should have a separate bibliography including at least 2 references, using APA format. Bibliography does not count towards word count. Each assessment should have:
- Title
- Topic sentence (a single sentence or two which summarize the student’s understanding of the situation, the actions taken by the consulting engineer, and lessons learned)
- Situation assessment (What was the factual situation on the ground? What were the main challenges? What role could, and should, the consulting engineer play?)
- Lessons learned (this should include not just the lessons learned by the consulting engineer as expressed in the case study, but the lessons learned by the student looking at the case study as a whole)
Explanation & Answer
Attached.
Running head: DUBAI CASE STUDY
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Dubai Case Study Evaluation
Name
Institutional affiliation
DUBAI CASE STUDY
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Dubai Case Study Evaluation
Topic Sentence
The case study evaluates the $18 billion Tri-city expansion of large-complex
industrial ecology. Therefore, the case study shows the application of the principles of
industrial ecology in large complex projects. The case study shows ways of integrating
industrial ecology's thinking and principles, which are mainly environmental, into complex
analyses and projects that entail various dimensions such as social, economic, and policies
(Allenby, 2018). This mega project was under intense scrutiny because of the various views
and assumptions of important stakeholders regarding Nature Reserve against the Economic
Development perspectives.
Situational Assessment
Dubai has no water, but it has oil power plants side-by-side desalination plants located
in the coastal regions. This is why Dubai started building solar desalination plants. There was
a need for approval in six months before the commencement of construction processes. The
consulting engineer was supposed to work with three different companies with various
corporate cultures. These included the Dubai Health Care Cities that were run by an Egyptian
company, the Lagoons under the management of an Iraqi Company, and the Business Bay,
which included the world's tallest building under the management of a Dubai Company
(Allenby, 2018). at that time, the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) had
just stepped aside, claiming that developers and other environmental group...
