Bahrain is among the countries with the highest energy consumption rates and greenhouse gas emissions per capita, according to international studies.
The reports attribute the pattern to extremely high summer temperatures, poorly designed buildings, significant reliance on fossil fuels for energy production, severe water scarcity and the expansion of buildings due to population growth, rapid urbanisation, industrialisation and commercialisation.
Bahrain University engineering college architecture and design department lecturer Dr Dalia Shams’ paper, entitled ‘Using Fuzzy Synthetic Evaluation to assess the sustainability of New Educational Building Designs’, cites the international reports, dated 2021, highlighting that when combined with the kingdom’s fast-growing educational sector and subsequent building expansion, attention to sustainable designs is called for.
Additionally, no index has been specifically developed to assess the economic, environmental and social dimensions of sustainability in buildings in Bahrain.
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