R.Evolution’s waterfront residential project in Business Bay is integrating low-electromagnetic environment certification as part of its wider wellness and sustainability strategy.
September 01, 2026 | Riya Malhotra | UAE | Real Estate | 3 Min Read
EYWA Way of Water, R.Evolution’s ultra-luxury waterfront residential development on the Dubai Water Canal in Business Bay, is targeting EMFIS certification as part of its wider wellness-led design strategy.
The project is seeking certification for a low-electromagnetic environment, adding to a broader suite of international wellness and sustainability benchmarks that includes LEED Platinum, WELL Platinum and WiredScore Platinum.
The certification process will be led by EMFIS, a specialist organisation focused on measuring and certifying electromagnetic exposure within the built environment. According to the announcement, EMFIS will assess design and infrastructure choices at EYWA Way of Water, with particular focus on bedrooms and long-term occupancy environments.
The move builds on EMFIS’s earlier certification of EYWA Tree of Life, which established the partnership between EMFIS and R.Evolution and made EYWA one of the region’s first residential developments to treat electromagnetic hygiene as a measurable building standard.
EYWA Way of Water comprises approximately 65 ultra-luxury residences, including two- to five-bedroom apartments, duplexes and a penthouse. The project has been designed by OAD, led by Zane Tetere-Sulce, with John R Harris serving as consultant. Delivery is expected around 2028.
R.Evolution’s official EYWA platform also lists EYWA Way of Water as a 65-residence waterfront project under its wellness and longevity-focused real estate brand. The project follows EYWA Tree of Life, which includes 52 ultra-luxury wellness residences in Business Bay.
Federico Marangoni, Founder and CEO of EMFIS, said EYWA Way of Water is helping address a dimension of indoor environmental quality that the industry has not historically measured in a structured way.
“Green building told us how a building treats the world outside it. The next question, the one EYWA Way of Water is helping answer, is what a building does to the people inside it over the course of a lifetime,” he said.
He added that electromagnetic pollution remains an overlooked part of the indoor environment and said EYWA Way of Water is addressing it at the design phase, where it can have the greatest impact.
Mariska Stoffel, Director of Design and Development at R.Evolution, said architecture is becoming more sophisticated in how it responds to human wellbeing.
“When people spend around 90% of their time indoors, we are shaping the environment where much of daily life happens,” she said.
She added that sleep and recovery are key parts of that approach, and that EMFIS provides a benchmark for how the project addresses electromagnetic exposure.
Shailesh Bhandari, Director at John R Harris, said EYWA Way of Water extends sustainability thinking into the electromagnetic environment that residents live within every day.
The announcement comes as wellness real estate continues to gain traction globally and in the UAE. The Global Wellness Institute values the global wellness real estate market at $876 billion, with projections reaching $1.8 trillion by 2030. In the UAE, the sector has grown from $3.3 billion in 2017 to $14.6 billion in 2025, according to figures cited in the announcement.
For Dubai’s luxury residential market, the certification target reflects a shift from surface-level wellness amenities towards more technical and measurable standards within building design. It also points to growing competition among premium developers to differentiate projects through wellness, sustainability and indoor environmental quality.
The appointment of EMFIS to EYWA Way of Water forms part of a wider pipeline of UAE and GCC projects where electromagnetic environment certification is being integrated from the early stages of design rather than treated as a post-occupancy consideration.
Source: UAE News 24/7
