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Buildings

Category KPI Result Performance to Benchmark SDG

Public Building 0.00 %
Sustainability

Integrated Building
Management Systems in 0.00 %
Public Buildings

The sustainability of human activities in urban areas cannot be addressed without taking into
consideration the building, which is the most basic unit that makes up a city.

Optimizing building operations and services: It is recommended, therefore, that Bizerte investigates
the use of sustainability certification programmes for on-going public building operations, as these
programmes provide a standardized method for optimizing the environmental performance of building
stock.

It is recommended that Bizerte measures any public building area that is monitored via automated
and integrated building management ICT systems. Buildings with such ICT systems have the capacity
to provide a secure living and working environment by ensuring that aspects like energy efficiency and
water consumption are maintained at acceptable levels. Such buildings also account for the dynamic
utilization of space based on need and availability. It should also adopt energy and water efficiency
standards for new buildings, in order to decrease their life cycle environmental impact.

Bizerte should consider implementing Recommendation ITU-T L.1370 ‘Sustainable and Intelligent
Building Services’. This Recommendation sets the minimal requirements for the efficient and sustainable
management of the building as a unit. It also defines the services enabled by the sustainable and
intelligent building (SIB) concept, the way it contributes to the goals of sustainability, its features, its
different possible functioning modes, or its internal architecture and requirements with the IoT node
at its core.

Furthermore, ITU-T Study Group 5: ‘Environment, Climate Change and Circular Economy’ is working
on a draft Recommendation ITU-T L.SP_OB: ‘A methodology for improving, assessing and scoring the
sustainability performance of office buildings’ which will provide a framework to assess ten key areas
of environmental performance and management: Energy, Water, Air, Comfort, Health & Wellness,
Purchasing, Custodial, Waste, Site, and Stakeholders.

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