EVALUATION OF HIGH RISE BUILDINGS IN ADDIS ABABA BASED ON INTERNATIONAL GREEN BUILDING CRITERIA'S

Building construction is one of the development which significantly contributes to the growth of the country ,but also the building construction has an impact to our environment and human wellbeing at different stage of the construction ; by consuming different resources and increasing landfills, specially the high rise buildings are the largest consumers of energy and materials .The implementation of Green building can moderate this impacts. Therefore, the objective of this research is to evaluate high rise building in Addis Ababa based on International green building criteria’s. A data for a high rise buildings has been Constructed in Addis Ababa is collected from governmental organs ,a check list is prepared based on the weightage of the criteria’s measured according to the impact to environment and human wellbeing and the buildings are checked to resilient to Green building ; and to investigate the current situation of a Green building construction in Ethiopia ; a related proclamations and regulations are studied ; A case study building which is awarded LEED Gold certificate from GBCI, the only building in Ethiopia is observed and its Green building features are studied ;This research found that the high rise buildings has satisfied some of the criteria’s in a Good point which is 66 % percent for indoor Environmental quality of the buildings but for water efficiency ,waste water technology only 4 % is fulfilled and for the Energy efficiency criteria related to the orientation of the buildings found Good but related to the fixtures installed in the buildings doesn’t satisfy the Criteria