An Assessment of Environmental Clauses Development in Egyptian Building Codes from (1940-2008): Legislative Evolution and Alignment with Sustainable Development Goals

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Architectural Engineering , Faculty of Engineering , Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

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The Egyptian state has been working to create and update its building laws to adapt the development in construction sector and to govern and control construction process in communities in relation to the urban development in Egypt in the past hundred years in relation to the large increase in population parallel to the problems of resource depletion and global warming facing the world [1], Worldwide law makers by the end of the 20th century started to implement new codes to adapt buildings to environment in order to reach energy efficiency and occupants thermal comfort, this paper studies presence and impact of the environmental clauses in the Egyptian Building Laws from the first published Building Law no. 51 in 1940 till the Current Law no.119 in 2008 and its affect in Egyptian buildings industry and did the law makers tried to adapt the law to Sustainable development goals (SDG) in comparison to other international examples in order to achieve Sustainable built environment.

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JES. Journal of Engineering Sciences
Volume 53, Issue 6 - Serial Number 6
November and December 2025
Pages 836-853

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