Investigation of Sustainable University Campus Design Factors in Case of the Middle East Countries

While many universities in the Middle East have tendency to achieve sustainable campuses, there is lack of research results on their success rate and evaluating the effective factors. This paper aims to recognize and determine the effective indicators to achieve green university campuses in the Middle East countries by case study analysis and evaluation. Additionally, university master plan solutions in programming and designing sector will be compared according to UI Green Metric criteria and then weaknesses and strengths of these criteria will be explored. Accordingly, progress and trend of green campus development and Middle East participation in green universities movement have been discussed and eight universities have been studied. According to results, the Energy and Climate change has the highest value in programming; while Water and Education: have been evaluated as the neglected criteria in university campus master planning in the Middle East countries.

کلیدواژه ها:

sustainable ، green ، university ، Middle East ، UI green Metric