PREFACE
Over decades of human civilization, deferent kinds of laws and
regulation have been developed to regulate a certain human activity, the
building regulations was accumulatively developed through time to regulate the
building activity in deferent places according to the local needs of any place.
Through time, and while the building industry reach a significant level
of complication, a response has been taken in the building regulations field
where the need for more complicated and specialized codes, as the fire code,
earthquakes codes and other known codes.
While the environmental issues were pushed to the top of human
priorities in the last decades, the field of environmental codes was not
developed in equivalent to the progress of the green buildings field, lately the
need for an objective rules and measures for ruling the field of green buildings
was found, which led to the raise of many green building assessment tools.
As a matter of the green building assessment tools are more specialized
and tight regulations than the regular building regulation, which shows a gap
between the average regulations and the specialized regulation that could
partially hinder the implementation of the green building assessment tools in
the Egyptian market.
The research propose the enhancement of the local building regulations
through specialized code or imposing other environmental regulations within
the building regulations as an approach for paving the way to implement the
green building assessment tools in Egypt as a step in enhancing the
environmental performance of the buildings in Egypt.
Although there are needs for developing the local building regulation
from all environmental aspects, the research will cover the Indoor Environment
quality (IEQ) that has been pushed to the top of the environmental priorities.