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Directing future studies towards designing cost effectiveness modules for cost analysis studies to help the planners and designers in evaluating the economic feasibility and take the decisions needed.

Directing future studies towards housings’ energy demands at different microclimates of Egypt’s eight climatic regions to help the architects and suppliers to succeed in finding the solution for occupants’ thermal comfort at healthy houses.

Enforcement of Egyptian energy residential code through the building permits process and training designers on using and applying the code.

Enforcement of Green Pyramid Rating System in Egypt to assessment and evaluate the new buildings design and renovation process of the existing buildings. After a while it is preferred to produce another version from GPRS for new and existing residential buildings.

Directing future studies towards designing new hybrid solar systems using multi-fuels/elements which suit Egypt climate, its energy demands and at the same time low-cost.

Problem statement

Human thermal comfort is one of the biggest problems facing the Egyptians housing sector, which can lead to serious health problems, death is one of them.

Eco housing is the promising solution to face the future challenges particularly; energy demands, water leakage, pollution, climate change and global warming with the recognition that residential sector consumes more than 40% of total energy consumption of Egypt.

Housing conditions affect people’s health. Inadequate housing causes or contributes many preventable diseases and injuries, including respiratory, nervous system and cardiovascular diseases and cancer.

Use of proper building materials and construction could prevent indoor pollutants or mould, causing asthma, allergies or respiratory diseases.

Each house design has to be treated as individual case directly reacts to its microclimate condition reaching to good IAQ and thermally comfortable conditions.

Eco houses are strongly related to energy consumption aspect in addition to ecological aspect. The success of the solution is depending on the aggregation of interacting and good choices.

Housing needs to act as a clean climatic filter for providing healthy and comfortable IAQ. The total building fabric has to be a set of controllable climate filter to maintain endoclimate against a wide range of variable outdoor and indoor pressure.

Realizing the local climatic conditions and characteristics of different Egypt’s climatic regions and selecting the suitable solar elements from passive and active solar systems for improving the efficiency of energy use and providing the thermal comfort to residence.

GPRS is a local environmental rating system which is a measurement tool and not a design tool that cares about the Egyptian environmental problems and trying to solve.

Awareness of selecting suitable green materials and ecological systems, and at the same time economical from consuming low energy during construction, operation and recycling possibility. Including the cost analysis, life cycle and energy consumption cost of eco systems to the total cost of design and renovation processes.

Study framework

Literature review

Chapter 1

Healthy housing

Theoretical part based on the data gathered throughout the study that helps in obtaining basics criteria in which the analysis of the case study depends .

Indoor thermal

environment

Aims and objectives:

Chapter 2

Egypt climatic zone

Chapter 3

Study the housing impacts on human health, as well as the causes of emerging diseases and methods of avoidance.

Study the indoor thermal environment for residential spaces, and people‘s response to it.

Present guidelines and checklists, which help architects, designers and decision makers to adapt buildings to thermal comfort and healthy housing.

Present the Egyptian climatic zones, as well as different residential building requirements.

Present the world experiences as well as the Egyptian one for achieving rating systems for building.

Study different architectural application methods and evaluating their suitability for Egypt different climate zones.

Analytical part

Study different architectural applying ways with evaluation to the suitability for Egypt climate.

Community awareness should be interesting to future challenges facing the environmental issues in Egypt, the way to increase the awareness of the importance of having a healthy and eco housing.

Increasing the interest in sustainability education at architectural school. How to design in respect with the environment, the relationship between housing and human health, and how to create a healthy comfort residential spaces.

The necessary of improving the knowledge of architects, constructors and suppliers of the new green technologies at designing, constructing and green materials through conferences, exhibitions and publishing information and specifications labels in a wide range.

Renewable energy is the actual solution to face the future challenges in the energy demands. Specially, solar energy and wind energy.

Providing information and advice to policy and decision makers, researchers, architects, designers, and manufacturers for achieving a satisfactory balance between good indoor air quality and the rational use of energy.

Chapter 4

Applying ways

Chapter 5

Study five different case studies showing the integration of different solar design aspects for achieving a healthy housing.

Case studies

Conclusion and Recommendations