To promote and encourage the concept of green architecture, many organizations and bodies
have agreed to establish building assessment standards and specifications. Today, many
countries use green architecture assessment systems that were already developed by several
countries. Some of the expected benefits of implementing assessment standards and
specifications are: The move towards applying green building assessment systems in Egypt is a
result of dealing with climate related issues. Inefficient energy use and natural resources
management and ineffective management of liquid, gaseous, solid and agricultural wastes, as
well as sanitary and irrigation water wastes, have a very serious negative impact on the
environment that affects all sectors of the State. This necessitated the development of a national
Egyptian Green Building Rating System to ensure the realization of our development
objectives: to fulfill the needs of the present generation without jeopardizing those of the
coming generations, to reduce energy consumption and minimizing costs in the construction
sector, in addition to implementing different techniques and methodologies. This paper aims to
introduce the green architecture assessment system in Egypt through introducing the Egyptian
Green Building Council, the Green Pyramid Rating System [GPRS] and its assessment criteria.
This is done in order to assessing this system through the principles of the other systems around
the world.