To promote and encourage the concept of green architecture, many organizations and bodies have agreed to establish building assessment standards and specifications. Today, many countries use green architecture assessment systems that were already developed by several countries. Some of the expected benefits of implementing assessment standards and specifications are: The move towards applying green building assessment systems in Egypt is a result of dealing with climate related issues. Inefficient energy use and natural resources management and ineffective management of liquid, gaseous, solid and agricultural wastes, as well as sanitary and irrigation water wastes, have a very serious negative impact on the environment that affects all sectors of the State. This necessitated the development of a national Egyptian Green Building Rating System to ensure the realization of our development objectives: to fulfill the needs of the present generation without jeopardizing those of the coming generations, to reduce energy consumption and minimizing costs in the construction sector, in addition to implementing different techniques and methodologies. This paper aims to introduce the green architecture assessment system in Egypt through introducing the Egyptian Green Building Council, the Green Pyramid Rating System [GPRS] and its assessment criteria. This is done in order to assessing this system through the principles of the other systems around the world.

The environmental problems which face us today have now grown to the point that they affect our very quality of life. There is increasing demand for a limited supply of natural resources used in the industry. In view of present global crises - population expansion, natural resource depletion and ecological disasters - there is an urgent need to align development and the practice of architecture with the concept of sustainability. Green architecture is one of these concepts and it is not a style, trend nor a vernacular and neither is it new. So, Green Architecture is a term used to describe economical, energy-saving, environmentally-friendly, sustainable development. It was important to find a way to assess the quality of these buildings, which is called the Green Architecture Assessment Tool. The Purpose of this research is to discuss some of the Green Architecture assessment tools around the world. Then it holds a comparison between them in order to reach a better understanding of these tools. Also to find out the basics which must be found in any rating tool in any other place in the world?

The environmental problems which face us today have now grown to the point that they affect our very quality of life. There is increasing demand for a limited supply of natural resources used in the industry. In view of present global crises - population expansion, natural resource depletion and ecological disasters - there is an urgent need to align development and the practice of architecture with the concept of sustainability. Green architecture is one of these concepts and it is not a style, trend nor a vernacular and neither is it new. So, Green Architecture is a term used to describe economical, energy-saving, environmentally-friendly, sustainable development. It was important to find a way to assess the quality of these buildings, which is called the Green Architecture Assessment Tool. The Purpose of this research is to discuss some of the Green Architecture assessment tools around the world. Then it holds a comparison between them in order to reach a better understanding of these tools. Also to find out the basics which must be found in any rating tool in any other place in the world?

The environmental problems which face us today have now grown to the point that they affect our very quality of life. There is increasing demand for a limited supply of natural resources used in the industry. In view of present global crises - population expansion, natural resource depletion and ecological disasters - there is an urgent need to align development and the practice of architecture with the concept of sustainability. Green architecture is one of these concepts and it is not a style, trend nor a vernacular and neither is it new. So, Green Architecture is a term used to describe economical, energy-saving, environmentally-friendly, sustainable development. It was important to find a way to assess the quality of these buildings, which is called the Green Architecture Assessment Tool. The Purpose of this research is to discuss some of the Green Architecture assessment tools around the world. Then it holds a comparison between them in order to reach a better understanding of these tools. Also to find out the basics which must be found in any rating tool in any other place in the world?