دراسة مقارنة بين نظم تقييم الاستدامة في المستشفيات

Abstract EN

Sustainability is one of the most important goals that global society tries to achieve, many of environmental organizations think about how to evaluate sustainability in different types of building, so sustainability rating systems are published, some of these rating systems are general, and some of them are specializing in a certain building types, Hospitals are one of these types, many rating systems with different items and credits are used to evaluate sustainability in hospitals.

So, it will be useful to compare between these rating systems to define similarities and differences between them, then to specify which the best one for hospitals.

The conclusion of this paper is, despite the apparent similarity of hospital rating systems in items and credits, Breeam is the most comprehensive one, as it contains the largest number of sustainability assessment criteria as well as Breeam which includes all sustainability elements (environmental - social - economic).