Identification of Key Challenges of Smart Buildings Projects in Egypt

Samar El-Motasem; Ali Fathy Eid; Laila Mohamed Khodeir

doi:10.21625/archive.v4i1.697

Samar El-Motasem , Ali Fathy Eid , Laila Mohamed Khodeir

https://doi.org/10.21625/archive.v4i1.697

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Vol. 4 Issue 1 (2020): Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference: Architecture, Engineering & Technology (AET)

Submitted
February 23, 2020

Published
February 24, 2020

Keywords:

Smart Buildings Projects (SBP), Smart Cities(SC), Egypt

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Abstract

The world is changing rapidly heading to the future with quick intelligent steps. Adaptation of smart and responsible architecture that can cope with future demands is no more a choice. Nowadays; Smart buildings projects (SBP) is a new trend and very important worldwide type of projects. Smart buildings projects evolved during early 1980s and were called “Intelligent Buildings”. Since then; different definitions have been stated by many institutes and researchers, and the terminology “Intelligent Building” was then replaced with “Smart Building”. SBP in Egypt are rare; they don’t have clear description or specific definition. There is a lack of guidelines to establish a smart building in Egypt and lack of research work discussing SBP, their design, management system, life cycle costs, risks, etc. as well. This paper is concerned with determining the main challenges of SBP in Egypt through both: analysis of literature sources and analysis of some SBP internationaly and comparing them to SBP in Egypt. Finally; the results of the study were collected, analyzed and categorized and the key challenges of SBP in Egypt were determined and pointed out.

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Authors

Samar El-Motasem

Architect, PhD Student, Deptartment of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

[email protected] (Primary Contact)

Ali Fathy Eid

Professor, Architecture and Project Management, Deptartment of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Laila Mohamed Khodeir

Associate Professor, Deptartment of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, British University in Cairo, Egypt

El-Motasem, S., Eid, A. F., & Khodeir, L. M. (2020). Identification of Key Challenges of Smart Buildings Projects in Egypt. ARCHive-SR, 4(1), 34–43. https://doi.org/10.21625/archive.v4i1.697

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