Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1514475 | Energy Procedia | 2011 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
Continuing to lead the way in the fight against climate change and protecting the environment, Egypt moved little steps towards building regulations for all new construction in the country hopefully to achieve major reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, energy consumption, and water use.This paper is an analytical study of unified building regulation and standard buildings cods in Egypt in order to figure out how much they comply with green architecture. The paper also investigates the opportunities and challenges in Egyptian building culture which will affect its movement towards green principles. The paper is concluded with some recommendations to peter involve some green principles within unified building law in Egypt.
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