THE NATIONAL – Wind towers, long abandoned for the pleasures of air conditioning could again become a Middle Eastern architectural fixture, says a Dubai scientist who is integrating the traditional structure with a zero-energy cooling system. Ben Hughes, a researcher at Heriot-Watt University’s Dubai campus, recently received a grant worth US$1million (Dh3.67 million) from the Qatar National Research Fund to develop the technology over the next three years. Read More
