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Abstract
It is apparent nowadays that human activity has an increasingly negative impact on the environment and the global climate. This emphasizes the importance of sustainable development to meet humanity’s current needs without compromising future generations’ needs. This thesis IIIr1s by highlighting the three dimensions of sustainable development which are the environment, the economy, and the society. Since globalization has a profound impact on all Ire8S of human life, architecture is no exception and has thus evolved into sustainable architecture and Nano architecture. Since sustainable architecture is part of a bigger ”Sustainable Cities” concept, sustainable cities emphasizes the use of renewable resources, minimizing resources consumption, and managing resources in a way that maximizes its recovery and usage.
The thesis then highlights that as of today, sustainable architecture has worldwide ICCepted principles, objectives, and indicators for sustainable design. In addition, it higWights the definition, objectives, features, characteristics, costs and benefits of high performance buildings (HPB) and its development in the 20th century and into the 2 I•t century, with the aim of providing a clear understanding of HPB and its future prospects. It then explains the importance of automation of buildings and the effect of using intelligent building systems and technologies on buildings performance. The thesis also higWights the financial benefits provided by HPB over conventional buildings. These benefits include energy and water savings, reduced waste, improved indoor environment quality, greater employee comfort and productivity, high employee morale, increased turnover of companies, reduced employee health costs, and lower operations and maintenance costs. In addition, the role of stakeholders in supporting HPB has been explained.
The thesis then moves on to providing analytical examples of HPB recently constructed in the US and the UK, as well as examples of tuning existing buildings and tuning heritage buildings into HPB, and finally, current attempts and projects to construct HPB in Egypt and the Gulf including ”MASDAR”, the first zero carbon, zero waste city in the world currently being established in Abu Dhabi, higWighting the latest development of HPB design since it will be producing excess energy over and above its needs. The thesis then evaluates the aspects of HPB achieved in those examples.
Since there are no available HPB guidelines or standards in Egypt, the thesis presented in detail the HPB guidelines used in New York City and used it as a basis for measuring and comparing the eight chosen HPB examples against best practices in the US as a benchmark. These comparisons of HPB guidelines applications included city process, design process, site design and planning, building energy usage, indoor environment, material selection, water management, construction administration, commissioning, and operation and maintenance. The thesis also compared the eight chosen examples across four HPB features which are clean energy resources; improved indoor environment; source reduction, pollution prevention and recycling, and building operations resource management. Before concluding the thesis with a list of positive and negative aspects of HPB in Egypt along with the proposed recommendations to improve its potential, the thesis explained the potential of positioning Egypt to benefit from the current and expected Green revolution in the future by capitalizing on the vast potential of renewable energy in Egypt like solar and wind. It defmed the Green Transformation from a holistic perspective higWighting its effect on the Green construction sector along with the expected economic, social and environmental benefits to the country and proposed a vision and strategic framework for Egypt Green Transformation going forward with implications on the Green construction sector.