GUtech has an amazing track record in research activities focusing on sustainability.
In 2014 GUtech won Oman Research Centre prestigious award for designing an Eco-House as a model of green residential buildings. The eco-house is now located in the grounds of GUtech offering as a prototype unique research opportunities for the region.
In 2020 The Oman Hydrogen Centre was established at GUtech as an International Competence Hub for Research, Technology, Education, Industries Applications and Economy. The Centre is the first of its kind in Oman and the GCC.
The Faculty of Business is considered as a centre of excellence looking at sustainable means of managing tourism and heritage. In 2016 a research project looking at the governance of sustainability for the tourism sector was conducted in collaboration with the Ministry of Tourism and The Research Council in Oman (TRC). Below are references to the main projects:
An Integrated Approach to Sustainable Tourism Development in the Sultanate Oman.