Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 PhD, Student of ,Architecture, Department of Architecture and Urban development,, Azad University of Zahedan, Zahedan, Iran.
2 Assistant Prof. , Architecture. Department of Architecture and Urban Design, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran.Iran.
3 Asisstant Prof. of Architecture , Department of Architecture and Urban Design,, Central Branch, Azad University of Tehran. Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
In developed countries around the world, the sustainability of buildings is measured in order to direct activities toward achievement of sustainable development principles and policies through developing assessment systems. Such assessment has enabled the formation and allocation of weighting coefficients in sustainable building assessment criteria by examining and identifying regional Indicators of hot and dry climates. Therefore, it devises the categories and criteria by comparing and analyzing assessment systems including LEED, BREEA, GRIHA, GREEN STAR, ETIDAMA, and QSAS. Based on the effective relationship between regional categories and Indicators, it explores assessment systems with a similar structure. This study attempted to demonstrate the role and impact of regional Indicators of a hot and dry climate and its influence on the weighting process of assessment criteria of sustainable rating systems in hot and dry climates. The research methodology was based on quantitative hybrid correlation relationships, which extracted the essential statistical data of regional Indicators from globally validated sites and finally analyzed them through linear regression. The results suggested a significant relationship between the allocation coefficients of regional categories and Indicators, and their role in the process of criteria weighing. In the majority of systems, the coefficient assessment of water, energy and other categories have been allocated based on regional Indicators.
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