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Figure 6 shows the percentage of site assessment
The best way to improve building performance is the used of integrated design which means the
inclusiveness efficiency, the integrated should be considered in design phase and implemented in
constructions period and monitoring in operation time in order to achieve high level of efficiency.
Meanwhile this integration include all the professionals who involved in design, constructed, and
operating the building .one of result analysis shows in Figure 7 that the respond about the use
of integrated design in order to improve the building performance is 43% of participants choose
sometime while 9% choose never and between them 29% almost always. This result shows that
the integration in design not all the time part of the project processing, for example if the design
not consider the local climate, this will lead to reduce the mechanical system efficiency by over
exceed the used of cooling system the energy consumption increased also. All these impacts
related to each other, as consequences the absence of integration design affect the building performance which impacts the level of sustainability achievement

Figure 7 shows the percentage of achieve integrated design

Sustainability assessment and building performance on construction practices in the UAE

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