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تميز دراسي وبحثي
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البحوث المنشورة
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البحث (1):
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عنوان البحث:
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Developing sustainable building assessment
scheme for Saudi Arabia: Delphi consultation approach
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تاريخ النشر:
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November 2013
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موجز عن البحث:
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Scientific evidence suggests
important discrepancies between simulated and real energy performance of
buildings. This is exacerbated in developing countries, such as Saudi Arabia,
by the reliance on leading international building environmental and
sustainability assessment schemes (e.g. BREEAM and LEED). The paper proposes
to test the overarching hypothesis that the leading international
environmental and sustainability assessment schemes are not adapted to the
Saudi built environment, with a focus on the residential sector. The paper
aims to (a) test the applicability of international leading schemes such as
BREEAM and LEED for the assessment of Saudi’s built environment, and (b)
identify applicable building assessment categories and criteria for Saudi’s
built environment. As building assessment methods involve multi-dimensional
criteria, a consensus based approach is used to conduct the research. Hence,
the Delphi technique is selected and conducted in three successive
consultation rounds involving world leading experts in the domain of
environmental and sustainable assessment schemes, as well as professionals
and highly-informed local experts from academia, government and industry. The
results reveal that international assessment schemes are not fully applicable
to the Saudi built environment, as reflected in the development of a new
building environmental and sustainability assessment scheme.
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البحث (2):
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عنوان البحث:
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Sustainable
building assessment tool development approach
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تاريخ النشر:
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December 2012
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Following expansion in the field
of environmental assessment methods, existing methods cannot be applied to
all regions for a number of reasons, one of which is regional variation. This
paper investigates the most important and globally widespread environmental
assessment methods: BREEAM, LEED, SBTool, and CASBEE. It identifies areas of
convergence and distinction in order to enable the consolidation of
environmental criteria into new potential schemes. As well as considered a
starting point for the procedure of consensus-based process, it also provides
a generic model for the development of an effective environmental assessment
method intended for the establishment of environmental assessment method
suited to Saudi Arabia.
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البحث (3):
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عنوان البحث:
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the development of
sustainable assessment method for Saudi Arabia: weighting system
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تاريخ النشر:
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July 2014
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Our
built environment is responsible for some of the most serious global and
local environmental change. The construction industry, therefore, faces
pressure to increase the sustainability of its practices reflected in the
development of stringent regulations and environmental assessment methods,
designed to mitigate such negative impacts. However, these well-known methods
(e.g., BREEAM, LEED, SBTool, and CASBEE) have not originally been designed to
suit developing countries (including Saudi Arabia). This paper proposes to
customize an adapted weighting system that prioritizes Saudi environmental
assessment method (SEAM) categories. The research methodology involves the
use of analytic hierarchy process (AHP). Expert choice software was the main
tool to analyze the input data. This research instrument involves the
participation of a number of leading, global experts in the field of
environmental and sustainable development, as well as professionals and
highly informed local experts from government, academia, and industry. The
results reveal that well-known environmental assessment methods are not fully
applicable to the Saudi Arabia built environment, as reflected in the
resulting categories, criteria and weighting system of SEAM.
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المؤتمرات العلمية:
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المؤتمر (1):
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عنوان المؤتمر:
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ASCE
2014, American Society of Civil Engineers
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تاريخ الإنعقاد:
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23-25 June 2014
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مكان
الإنعقاد:
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Orlando, Florida, United States
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طبيعة المشاركة:
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Oral presentation
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عنوان المشاركة:
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The Process of Adapting a Sustainable Building
Assessment Method Worldwide: SEAM, A Case Study
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ملخص المشاركة:
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The
evolution of sustainable assessment tools created a competition amongst
well-known tools toward international use. However, practical evidence shows
that regional and sociocultural variations have been a strong obstacle to the
direct use of those sustainable assessment tools. Hence, this paper proposes
to determine the applicable methodology supporting the adaptation of a
sustainable building assessment method for any given region. The adaptation
of the Saudi Environmental Assessment Method (SEAM) is taken in this paper as
a subject of actual development. Because sustainable assessment tools involve
multi-dimensional criteria, a mixed-methodology approach is used in conducting
this study, given that the Delphi technique (DT) and analytical hierarchy
process (AHP) have a proven record of reaching consensus by a panel of
experts. Therefore, DT and AHP have been conducted, involving leading global
experts in the domain of environmental and sustainable assessment schemes, as
well as professionals and highly informed local experts from academia,
government, and industry. The result shows that international sustainable
assessment tools are not fully applicable to the Saudi built environment, as
reflected in the development of a new building environmental and
sustainability assessment scheme (SEAM).
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