Sustainable and Green Academic Buildings in Al-Azhar University: Case Study

Abstract

Egypt's Vision 2030 adopted a strategy for sustainable development (SDS), The primary goals of sustainable design are to decrease resource depletion, including energy, water, and raw materials, and to mitigate environmental damage caused by buildings and facilities over their lifetime; create better building environments, also referred to as green buildings. This paper presents the situation of current implementation state of a green strategy in Egyptian universities based on sustainability international rankings, such as the UI Green Metric world ranking. This paper considers the implications of implementing a green university's strategy. it has been interested in the use and apply even a few appropriate green approaches in Al-Azhar University and trying to integrate and link them to the Egyptian country's comprehensive strategy for sustainable development, this provides an assurance that the situation will improve soon. This case study focuses on implementing green initiatives in higher education academic university building to achieve sustainability by providing green indicators that are linked to the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainability focusing on energy, education, and environmental pillars mentioned in Egyptian Vision. This study proposes a smart building implementation criteria based on using efficient LED lighting system introduces energy saving tacking environmental reduction effect for Co2  based on applying Leed rating system standard as energy and environmental design leadership, also design of a solar system as a generation unit supplying a apart for the proposed academic sustainable building electrical loads, and represent it as a penetration of a renewable energy sources (RES) for green campus in AL-Azhar University.