AN ANALYTICAL STUDY FOR EVALUATING THE GREEN PYRAMID RATING SYSTEM

Abstract

To promote and encourage the concept of green architecture, many organizations and bodieshave agreed to establish building assessment standards and specifications. Today, manycountries use green architecture assessment systems that were already developed by severalcountries. Some of the expected benefits of implementing assessment standards andspecifications are: The move towards applying green building assessment systems in Egypt is aresult of dealing with climate related issues. Inefficient energy use and natural resourcesmanagement and ineffective management of liquid, gaseous, solid and agricultural wastes, aswell as sanitary and irrigation water wastes, have a very serious negative impact on theenvironment that affects all sectors of the State. This necessitated the development of a nationalEgyptian Green Building Rating System to ensure the realization of our developmentobjectives: to fulfill the needs of the present generation without jeopardizing those of thecoming generations, to reduce energy consumption and minimizing costs in the constructionsector, in addition to implementing different techniques and methodologies. This paper aims tointroduce the green architecture assessment system in Egypt through introducing the EgyptianGreen Building Council, the Green Pyramid Rating System [GPRS] and its assessment criteria.This is done in order to assessing this system through the principles of the other systems aroundthe world.