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Abstract
Egyptian cities are suffering from a number of urban , environmental
and social problems. According to Egyptian environmental reports 2011:
• Encroachment on agricultural land has led to the loss and waste of one million and two hundred
feddans of fertile agricultural lands, mostly in the Delta region.
• Degradation of urban environment and encroachment on lands in cities and villages.
• Increasing costs of residential areas development.
• Difficulty in allocating lands for public utilities and infrastructure works.
• Increasing pressure on public utilities networks (electricity - sewage - roads, etc.) as a result
of vertical urbanization.
One of the reasons causing these problems is ignoring sustainability aspects when building in
Egypt.
Therefore, building codes considering sustainability assessments can help in solving or at least
appeasing the effect of these problems as well as controlling future problems.
Sustainability assessment through the use of specialised rating systems is a model which is
steadily gaining acclaim in the built environment professions. These systems aim to associate
techniques, effects and design philosophies with the promotion of the (now familiar) concept of
sustainability.
This research aim is proposing guidelines for sustainability assessment rating system for Egypt.
This is performed by reviewing existing international sustainability assessment rating systems,
analyzing them and concluding on their applicability in Egypt.
LEED, BREEAM, CASBEE the top three sustainability assessment
systems used worldwide are described in details in this research with an application case study for
each. Based on the analysis of the three processes and comparing them, the research proposes a
guideline sustainability assessment rating system for Egypt. The proposed
ystem is based mainly on LEED system due to its flexibility with
additions from BREEAM systems that are absent in LEED system.
ASBEE is disregarded because it is a very different approach, and highly complex way.