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Participants of sustainability in design phase Figure 2 shows the domination of the architects for the participants. The information about experiences gives indication about the period of time that participant spend it in construction sector in U.A.E, as clear from the Figure 3 that most participant have more than 10 years in U.A.E which represents 53% of the total. While the range from 2-5 years have the less percentage 14%, it is very clear the last 10 years witnessed the rapid growth in construction, which attracted many people to have their opportunity to have jobs in U.A.E while the financial crises in 2008 affect the rate of constructions, which reduce the number of labour. This will have disadvantages that the level of experience construction sector has been improved during the last 10 years. In the other hand the mix of nationality have advantage and disadvantage because it could be strong point as a background experiences and feeble point because sometime this background not matching the U.A.E climate and culture. As shown in Figure 4 that the major nationality in construction field is the Middle east 38% from the total, which including Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and others. Experience construction sector Figure 3 shows the experiences period in U.A.E Sustainability assessment and building performance on construction practices in the UAE 185