Smart and Sustainable Built Environment: Volume 2 Issue 3

LEED as a tool for enhancing affordable housing sustainability in Saudi Arabia: The case of Al-Ghala project

Maged Kamal Mohammad Attia

The purpose of this paper is to enhance sustainability in affordable housing in Saudi Arabia within an effective locally adopted sustainability assessment tool by discussing the…

Saudi Arabia's sustainable housing limitations: the experts’ views

Mohammed Saied Al Surf, Bambang Trigunarsyah, Connie Susilawati

The purpose of this paper is to attempt to bridge the gap between sustainable housing and the use of smart technologies to improve the level of sustainability in the housing…

Utilization of life-cycle analysis to evaluate sustainability rating systems for construction projects with a case study on Qatar Sustainability Assessment System (QSAS)

Sherif Omar Attallah, Ahmad Senouci, Amr Kandil, Hassan Al-Derham

The purpose of this paper is to present a methodology for assessing, in quantifiable terms, the reduction in environmental impacts achieved by applying different credits of…

Encouraging walkability in GCC cities: smart urban solutions

Mohamed Atef Elhamy Kamel

It is noted that cities in the region of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have a very poor Walkability Index. It is typically the forgotten mode of transport. Moreover, walking…

Diabetes, built environments and (un)healthy lifestyles: The potential of smart city technologies

Bhzad Sidawi, Mark Deakin

Diabetes mellitus is the most common non-communicable medical condition worldwide, yet little is known about the relationship this disease has to the built environment. The…

Development in the Gulf: sustainable, intelligent and smart