ZERO ENERGY SCHOOLS AN APPROACH TO ACHIEVE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN KSA

Abstract

Mankind's current confrontation with many major environmental problems, as a result of the depletion of energy sources conventional energy. This has resulted in serious environmental problems. In view of the need for increased energy demand and the impact of consumer life on crises fallout. In order to prevent risks arising from these problems, many ideas and concepts have emerged that attempt to formulate formulations for environmental consciousness.
Sustainable development and its concepts are the basis for identifying ways of dealing rationally with the environment. As well as principles of sustainable architecture, green architecture and buildings zero energy and other as an intellectual framework conducive to reducing problems and especially the energy problem.
Zero-energy schools can be seen as a good concept and a successful way to transmit environmental issue from curricula to application in pupils' daily lives as well as encouraging participation in environmental responsibility by students, teachers, parents and all sectors of the community.
The research aims to shed light on the idea of zero energy schools directly and review the methods and techniques used in designing these schools and the possibility of applying it as a sustainable entry point in Arab cities, especially those with a desert nature for its sense of environmental and human activism.
Research approached the analytical research curriculum and the case study curriculum by analyzing the theoretical ideas associated associated with the concepts of green architecture, zero energy schools, addressing their objectives, their role in publishing principles, With a review of a pilot model of a school in order to come up with a set of methods which can be adapted to the environmental conditions of Arab cities and climates in order to apply them To reach the design of a zero-energy school while studying the applicability of this idea in the Arab city constitutes.