Qatar Research + Development Complex

Elementa Consulting led the sustainability strategy for this master plan in Qatar which is on track to become the region’s first LEED for Neighborhood Development Gold-rated development. QRDC is part of a wider strategy to create a value chain between Education City and Qatar Science and Technology Park, enabling the commercialization of innovative research in health, energy, water engineering, and biotechnology.

Working alongside urban design and landscape designers, Elementa Consulting has developed, simulated, illustrated, and codified strategies that will significantly increase external comfort – essential to make a pedestrian-oriented neighborhood successful.

These strategies are embedded within design guidelines for all future development at QRDC alongside requirements for energy management, water conservation and harvesting, health, and wellbeing. Working with the support of the LEED-ND team at USGBC, the project has extended the LEED® framework using familiar credit structures and terminology to address regional environmental priorities and client strategic objectives Elementa Consulting also provided strategic direction to the development of MEP infrastructure servicing the QRDC masterplan and the optimization of buried services corridors and service tunnel design. Irrigation, stormwater, and condensate harvesting models were used to develop a net zero water strategy for the landscape design.