دراسة مقترحة لتقييم استدامة المياه بالمباني السكنية أثناء مرحلة التشغيل في مبنى إسكان الطالبات بجامعة سوهاج الجديدة.

Sustainability Rating System is an important means support building and developing sustainable buildings, with many advantages for their residents and developers, as well as their greater role in supporting and protecting the environment, which is one of the greatest concerns at the national, regional, and global levels. In this paper, Developing Rating System of Water Sustainability was addressed, which aims to assess and give focus and attention to one element of sustainability, it is the sustainability of resources. In the field of water consumption, we can assess the water sustainability of the building, as water is one of the most important natural resources influencing lifestyle, can cause many problems due to water scarcity and regional conflicts. Therefore, the existence and development of such rating system, will shed light and alert to the importance of reducing water consumption at different stages of the building's life, focusing on operational phase, where researchers conducted a field study to develop a two-stage water sustainability measurement tool. The first phase, is the development of Rating System of Water Sustainability, previously proposed by researchers in previous research, through the pattern of expansion of participation, by involving a larger base of specialists and sharing their views in the development of the components of the scale, determining the degree of relevance of each criterion and also the degree of relevance of each detailed category. A group of respondents with diverse scientific and specialized backgrounds was selected, with expertise in the field. The second stage is developed through the experience and application pattern and the measurement test on a study case, which is the housing building of female students at the new University of Sohag. The research concluded that the criteria were rearranged, and the relative weights of each criterion were determined according to its importance. The standard of the building's feeding and sewage systems came in the first order, followed by the standard of consumption outside the building, and then maintenance techniques and detection of water leakage. The case study resulted a lack of use of smart techniques, and the need for a degree of flexibility, commensurate with a wider range of building types. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]