Compatibility of global environmental assessment methods of buildings with an Egyptian energy code

Abstract EN

Several environmental assessment methods of buildings had emerged over the world to set environmental classifications for buildings, such as the American method ‘‘Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design’’ (LEED) the most widespread one.

Several countries decided to put their own assessment methods to catch up with the previous orientation, such as Egypt.

The main goal of putting the Egyptian method was to impose the voluntary local energy efficiency codes.

Through a local survey, it was clearly noted that many of the construction makers in Egypt do not even know the local method, and whom are interested in the environmental assessment of buildings seek to apply LEED rather than anything else.

Therefore, several questions appear about the American method compatibility with the Egyptian energy codes-that contain the most exact characteristics and requirements and give the outmost credible energy efficiency results for buildings in Egypt-, and the possibility of finding another global method that gives closer results to those of the Egyptian codes, especially with the great variety of energy efficiency measurement approaches used among the different assessment methods.

So, the researcher is trying to find the compatibility of using non-local assessment methods with the local energy efficiency codes.

Thus, if the results are not compatible, the Egyptian government should take several steps to increase the local building sector awareness of the Egyptian method to benefit these codes, and it should begin to enforce it within the building permits after a proper guidance and feedback.