Towards a more relevance university campus with its biosphere based on LEED - Case study: Technology Institute campus/ Baghdad

摘要

"US LEED" is the most important for transformation towards sustainable building design and existing building. "LEED" is a voluntary, consensus-based green building standard, also is a rating system. After the United States, many countries adopted "LEED" standards, because of its popularity, where it has been developed and commensurate with its environment and capabilities. Here the problem of the research is represented, and can be formulated with the following question: Where is Iraq from the experience of the "LEED" rating system? And is it possible to approach the "LEED" system and our architectural reality with all its components compatible with its biosphere? The aim of the research is to introduce the "LEED" standard and to formulate a theoretical approach that can be applied using "LEED" standards to improve the efficiency of educational buildings in Iraq so that they become more sustainable and in harmony with their biosphere. The practical part of the research applied on one of the educational complexes in Baghdad, Baghdad Institute of Technology - and evaluated according to "LEED" system. The research follows the descriptive analytical method in its interlocutor. The research concludes with the conclusions and recommendations needed to raise the level of educational buildings.