DEVELOPING AN ASSESSMENT CHECKLIST FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING REGULATIONS

An obvious first step in aligning regulatory policies with sustainablehousing goals is to correct regulations and provisions. The paper stands on ahypothesis that there is a need to regularly update the building regulations toimprove standards of building performance and to accommodatecontemporary issues such as sustainability to be applicable. So the objectiveis to enabling successful application of sustainable housing developmentcriteria within relevant local building regulations and codes throughdeveloping an assessment criteria tool by integrating sustainabilityapplications into these regulations. The methodology is adopting aninductive scientific analytical approach to prove the research hypothesis byreview on past literature to build the theoretical basis of the research;interviews with experts, then a survey been conducted for case studiesconsist of housing developments in Iraq to assess the current appliedregulations and verify the sustainability requirements within these cases.Then a qualitative and quantitative analysis for results with statisticalmethods was used. The conclusion is outlining a holistic framework forintegrating sustainability into building regulations by identifying differencesbetween the two groups of housing developers: the public and privateinvestment to propose additions and changes to be done on the buildingregulations according to sustainability criteria.

کلیدواژه ها:

Sustainable Housing ، Building Regulation ، Assessment Criteria ، Mann Whitney U-test