This review has been performed while taking into consideration the needs that are specific to Qatar’s local environment, culture, and policies.
The result is a performance-based sustainable building rating system customized to the unique conditions and requirements of the State of Qatar.
[8] QSAS consists of a series of sustainable categories and criteria, each with a direct impact on environmental stress mitigation.
The categories define these broad impacts and address ways in which a project can mitigate the negative environmental effects.
Each criterion specifies a process for measuring individual aspects of environmental impact and for documenting the degree to which the requirements have been met.
Target users for the resources are building planners, developers, owners, designers, engineers and environmentalists.
The measurements, calculations, simulations, scoring ranges, and weights change accordingly for each building type and project phase.
The aim for all QSAS criteria and their associated measurements is to be performance-based and quantifiable on the scoring scale of -1 to 3 (-1, 0, 1, 2, 3) or 0 to 3, depending on the criterion’s level of impact.
Chan Center and GORD are currently working on further developing and expanding QSAS to other regions in the Middle East.