Gaps Facing Sustainable Architectural Design Training and Education in Egypt

Abstract

Sustainable architecture has become an essential approach for future education especially with the calls for protecting the environment from degradation and resources from consumption. This research offers a critical analysis for possible gaps meeting sustainable architecture design training and education in Egypt. The research offers a case study held among 90 students from the Faculty of Engineering at Ain Shams University who were introduced to multiple architectural short training modules to test their response to each module and provide a quantitative result for further improvements. The training was held inside the faculty of engineering between July and August 2018. The research has tested seven different training modules related to sustainable architecture and design and has conducted a complete set of evaluation for each module based upon its content’s facilities and response. The importance of the research is that it provides quantitative data concerning student’s response to the different training modules ILOS upon which further enhancement for similar training can be accomplished.