Green Worship House Competition as an Effective Tool to Evaluate Green Pyramid Rating System (GPRS)

Nancy M Badawy,Merhan M Shahda

doi:10.5539/jsd.v13n1p18

Abstract

Egypt is divided into seven regional units; each region includes a number of governorates that are connected geographically and economically. When the Green Pyramid Rating System (GPRS) was proposed, and the weightings of its categories were set, the wide variation of the potential and the challenges of each region were not taken into account. Therefore, the study focused on highlighting these differences, and the main focus on Sinai region by analyzing the experience of activating The Green Pyramid Rating System (GPRS) during a competition held for this purpose. Accordingly, this paper presents an investigation into the international GBRSs to extract the specifications of a framework to improve GPRS classification, based on the experience of activating GPRS principles in Green Worship House Competition (GWHC) and the observations of participants of the competition. The study included a summary of what was suggested during participation in the competition to activate each category of Green Pyramid Rating System (GPRS), in addition to observations and problems encountered in the design of the project and activation of (GPRS) categories, then suggestions for developing the categories and weights of each category based on active participation in the Green Worship House Competition.

Highlights

Since 1982, various tools for building environmental assessment have begun to appear all over the world (Wenzel et al, 2000; Todd et al, 2000)
Most countries have been trying to launch their own rating systems to encourage the sustainable process assessment; each one has its own goals, needs, and way of use. All these rating systems are built in to adapt sustainability concept in architecture which seeks to minimize the negative environmental impact of buildings to promote high-performance buildings by conscious use of water, materials, energy, and space. These assessment tools differ in their concepts of including life cycle cost and assessment, energy performance, indoor environmental quality assessments, operations and maintenance optimization, whole building design and operations tools, and more (Elmeligy, 2014; Attia et al, 2013; Ali & Al Nsairat, 2009; Reich, 2005; Gowri, 2004).The need for green building assessment tool has increased in developing countries because of the environment, as it is a generally accepted fact that in order to manage anything there is a need to be able to measure it
This paper presents an insight into the international GBRSs to extract the specifications of a framework to improve Green Pyramid Rating System (GPRS) classification based on the experience of implementation of GPRS principles in (GWHC) participation

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Introduction

Since 1982, various tools for building environmental assessment have begun to appear all over the world (Wenzel et al, 2000; Todd et al, 2000). All these rating systems are built in to adapt sustainability concept in architecture which seeks to minimize the negative environmental impact of buildings to promote high-performance buildings by conscious use of water, materials, energy, and space These assessment tools differ in their concepts of including life cycle cost and assessment, energy performance, indoor environmental quality assessments, operations and maintenance optimization, whole building design and operations tools, and more (Elmeligy, 2014; Attia et al, 2013; Ali & Al Nsairat, 2009; Reich, 2005; Gowri, 2004).The need for green building assessment tool has increased in developing countries because of the environment, as it is a generally accepted fact that in order to manage anything there is a need to be able to measure it. It was not addressing local problems or conditions such as mismanagement and lack of awareness and training

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