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Abstract
This research investigates innovative trends, practices and goals of office building retrofits in GCC countries while illustrating green design techniques and implementation strategies. The existing office building stock in the Gulf is substantially large and represents one of the biggest opportunities to reduce energy waste and carbon emissions while enhancing internal human comfort.There are large percentage of inefficient highly and fully glazed facades, initially promoted by the modernist movement that took place since 1980s in GCC countries, that are due to retrofit. These buildings often rely on artificial ventilation, cooling, and suffer from poor insulation, which collectively make them huge energy consumers.Recently, many experiences of green retrofit has helped many buildings all over the world to increase energy efficiency, optimize building performance, increase tenants’ satisfaction and boost economic return. Moreover, there are significant opportunities to reduce carbon emission and improve existing buildings’ performance by retrofitting them rather than constructing new ones.This research attempts to study these experiences and investigate the new strategies which implemented to reach the desired targets, then extract these strategies and create a new guidelines for the Gulf region to help in enhancing the existing building stock. Also these strategies could be developed and extend to the all Middle East area.