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Abstract
The scarcity of energy sources in Egypt is one of the most challenging issues for urban development. To meet the escalating demand on housing, hundreds of residential projects are being constructed all over Cairo. Simultaneously, buildings are responsible for a big share of energy consumption. So, working for a more energy efficient built environment is very crucial. Many substantial approaches to implement energy efficiency principle on the built environment are available, but this research focuses specifically on the Zero-Energy design approach at the compound scale.
The research defines criteria of planning and designing Zero-Energy residential compounds in Egypt cities. The criteria outline the benchmarks of energy-efficient urban design, energy-efficient buildings design, and energy-efficient transportation and infrastructure systems, in Hot-Arid regions.
The criteria of planning and designing Zero-Energy residential compounds have been extracted from the analysis of the most common international Zero-energy community programs and the analysis of these programs’ strategies and guidelines. The Indicators of each criterion have been extracted from diverse literature sources focusing on the design principles of energy-efficient residential compounds and low-energy communities in Hot-Arid climate.
These criteria are used as a benchmark tool to assess the planning and designing of three different case studies of Zero-Energy Residential compounds in Hot-Arid regions. The assessment aims to evaluate to what extent the planning and designing of these compounds succeeded to achieve the zero-energy goal. Then defines the lessons learned from each case study.
Through the analysis and comparison between the different case studies the research traces the main deficiencies that impede the development of energy efficient residential compounds in Egypt cities. Then, suggests guidelines towards planning and designing successful zero-energy residential compounds in Egypt. These guidelines could be as a milestone to help planners, architects and even developers going forward that kind of developments in the future.
Furthermore, the research draws attention to current urban planning and residential compounds regulations and their relation to energy efficiency. As well as the potentials and constraints in the country policies and future plans related to developing Zero-Energy or Near-Zero-Energy residential compounds.