The author explains that this book is not the product of a sudden technical interest, nor the result of a passing sustainability trend. It is the continuation of a path that began in architecture.As an architect, she learned that every design decision, however aesthetic it may appear, is at its core a long-term ethical and economic decision.She continues: buildings are not concrete blocks, but environments that affect human health, energy consumption, carbon emissions and asset value.With her transition to executive work in the energy and investment sectors, she realised that the real gap was not a shortage of technologies, but the absence of a link between design, digital analysis and investment decision-making.She saw buildings designed without an understanding of their long-term financial impact.And she saw investments managed without the realisation that the asset itself could be redefined through intelligent design.The Vast.Dunes project was not merely a design initiative, but an attempt to prove that architecture can become a living system — one that produces energy, sequesters carbon, and serves as an educational and cultural intermediary, reconnecting the economy with the environment.The vision underpinning the project — transforming environmental innovation into measurable value for the national economy — was not purely technical, but a strategic decision aligned with the region's ambition to lead sustainable innovation.This realisation redefined the concept of
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The book From Energy Security to Value Security, by Dr. Abeer Shaheen, presents a rich and varied range of topics in the field of energy security, its future and its foundations. Published in a comprehensive English edition, it represents an international extension of an idea that was first conceived in Arabic — and is not a literal translation.
The author was keen to keep the Arabic original as the primary intellectual and scientific reference for the work, affirming the capacity of the Arabic language to produce high-level executive discourse in the fields of sustainability, investment, design, artificial intelligence and value security.
The book's topics are rich, deeply researched and detailed, reflecting the author's field expertise and her ability to combine architectural, executive, governmental and academic experience, as well as her practice in transforming sustainability from an institutional slogan into a measurable, governable and financeable financial logic.
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