8. Conclusion

comparison purpose. The same specifications of the zone in terms of air velocity, number of occupants, latent heat, operation hours, occupant activity and cloth, etc. were given for the two case scenarios. The passive heat gain breakdown of the building has been calculated for both the base case of the GREENEDGE building

Sustainability Assessment at the 21st Century

Daylight levels at the third floor of the building on the 21st of September for all the occupied spaces (after

Passive heat gain breakdown of the base case (done by the author using Autodesk Ecotect).

Passive heat gain breakdown of the proposed case (done by the author using Autodesk Ecotect).

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Autodesk Ecotect).

Although the GREENEDGE building is a mechanical-ventilated building (active ventilation), passive strategies and measures were followed to minimize the required energy for cooling and heating loads during the different seasons. The total hours of the years during energy consumption has been reduced by 12% after energy modeling analysis. The design recommendations could be summarized as follows:


The GREENEDGE building imitating the LEED goal for a golden certificate is packed with good design potentials which can lead for such project to be one of the first office buildings in Egypt to be certified with a Golden certification using the newly announced LEED for Core and Shell. It is worth mentioning here that the building has been achieved a Preliminary Platinum Certificate.
