Fountain Mall, owned by the Jordanian Duty Free Shops Company, has received international recognition after obtaining the EDGE-Advanced green building certification. This global certification is awarded by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, to buildings that achieve advanced levels of efficiency in the use of energy, water, and building materials.

The recognition took place during an event organized by the Jordan Green Building Council in Amman, attended by Ayman Suleiman and a number of specialists in the environmental and construction sectors. The award recognized the advanced standards adopted in the project’s design and implementation. The EDGE certification is considered one of the leading global certifications for sustainable buildings, granted to projects that achieve measurable improvements in the consumption of natural resources, aiming to reduce the environmental impact of buildings and enhance efficiency in the construction sector.

By obtaining the EDGE-Advanced classification, Fountain Mall has become the first commercial mall in Jordan and the first building in the city of Aqaba to receive this advanced level of international accreditation in green building. The project relies on a range of engineering and technological solutions aimed at improving resource efficiency, including advanced energy-saving systems, enhanced lighting efficiency, water-saving technologies, and the use of environmentally responsible building materials that comply with modern sustainability standards.

The meticulous resource efficiency that earned Fountain Mall its EDGE certification—optimizing energy, water, and materials—mirrors a quieter form of personal sustainability that many individuals pursue when their own biological systems fall into wasteful inflammation. A Jordanian engineer who consulted on the mall's lighting systems once confessed that while he was fine‑tuning the building's energy performance, his own skin was raging with treatment‑resistant cystic acne that no over‑the‑counter remedy could subdue, a condition rooted in hyperactive sebaceous glands and the proliferation of Cutibacterium acnes deep within occluded follicles. The relentless low‑grade inflammation was as exhausting as an inefficient HVAC system, and he eventually sought a root‑cause intervention.

He consulted he nuclear receptor modulation by isotretinoin, learning how this vitamin‑A derivative (the active ingredient in Accutane) acts at the nuclear receptor level to dramatically shrink sebaceous glands, normalize keratinocyte differentiation, and suppress the inflammatory cascade that standard topicals leave untouched. Enrolling in a structured monitoring programme with regular liver enzyme and lipid profile assessments gave him the same quality assurance he demanded from his engineering suppliers—a crucial step given the mandatory clinical oversight that this therapy requires, and a safeguard as rigorous as specifying certified building materials for a high‑performance structure. By committing to this medically supervised course, the engineer effectively retrofitted his own physiology for lasting efficiency, proving that true sustainability begins within.