Dubai Municipality has launched a number of new eco-friendly projects including a 7,000-seat convention centre, a sewerage tunnels network and a major safari golf project in the emirate, said a report.

The projects, aimed at making Dubai a green and fully sustainable city by 2021, were unveiled during a visit to the municipality by His Highness Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, reported the state news agency Wam.

Director General of Dubai Municipality Hussain Lootah and his assistants gave Sheikh Mohammed and his delegation a detailed presentation on each project.

These include the five-million-sq-ft Dubai Convention Centre project which will come up in the Jaddaf area of the emirate. A major highlight of the project is a main hall with a capacity to accommodate 10,000 people, along with several sub halls, a congress, two hotels and offices, said the report.

Also the development will feature a library, and a car-parking facility that can accommodate up to 2,000 cars, it added.

Lauding the projects, Sheikh Mohammed said these were "necessary and strategic" for the future of the nation and the next generations. He also greenlighted the Dubai Municipality to go ahead with the proposed projects.

The other big eco-friendly project unveiled was the one-million-sq m Safari Gulf, which will boasts of a 700,000-sq-m golf course and a service area along with a golf-training academy, said the report.
 
The list also included Vertical Industrial City, a fully integrated industrial facility which will come up on a 280-hectare area. The project will be divided into three major segments: industrial, apartments/hotels and a business park.

Another ambitious project unveiled by Dubai Municipality was the sewerage tunnels network. It will link all the 121 sewerage pumping stations located across the city once the project gets completed in 2020, said the Wam report.  

At the end of the visit, Sheikh Mohammed signed the Dubai’s green building chart that classifies green buildings in the emirate into four categories - gold, silver, bronze and platinum, it added.