Dubai Municipality gives ‘green’ touches to Expo site
Landscaping project also covers open spaces, roads, parks and key landmarks
Dubai Municipality is making efforts to enhance the aesthetic appearance and beauty of the area leading to the Expo 2020 Dubai site, through implementing best practices, Dawood Al Hajri, director-general, said.
“Dubai Municipality uses cutting-edge technologies and the vertical farming method to implement its landscaping projects across the city. Our plan is to expand our greenery drive to cover all the areas in Dubai including open spaces, roads and public parks. By expanding the green areas, we will be able to achieve the sustainability of the horticultural sector, improve air quality and boost the community’s mental and physical health,” he said.
As part of the landscaping project, Dubai Municipality extended 58km of the main irrigation lines. Three main pumping stations and three concrete tanks were also established to store irrigation water. Planting around the exhibition site was carried out at a length of about 21km, Al Hajri noted.
The landscaping project by Dubai Municipality also covered key landmarks near the Expo 2020 Dubai site, including the entrance to Dubai Parks, at a total area of 177,123 square metres. Steel landscaping works extended over an area of around 109,000 square metres. Additionally, the main irrigation lines were extended by 10.3km and sub-lines by 60.1km.
Shrubs, cactus plants
The landscaping work included planting 24,474 trees, 65,000 shrubs, 1,541,710 square metres of soil covers, and 50,107 square metres of cactus plants, another 2,707,912 square metres of soil covers, 5,049 metres of fences, 76,671 square metres of green spaces, around 847,000 square metres of gravel, and 3,118 square metres of climbers.