Page 26 - U4SSC Factsheet, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, June 2020

Buildings

Category KPI Result Performance to Benchmark SDG

Public Building Not Reported
Sustainability

Integrated Building
Management Not Reported
Systems in Public
Buildings

Buildings play an enormous role in our lives, cities and environment. Due to this, it is recommended
that Riyadh records and reports data on any sustainability certifications for its public buildings and
on the public building area that is monitored via automated and integrated building management
ICT systems. If it is found that building sustainability certifications are not yet prevalent, hundreds of
standards, rating and certification programmes can be chosen from to help guide, demonstrate and
document efforts to deliver sustainable and high-performance public buildings. In fact, standards for
green building performance should be made mandatory for publicly funded projects, and should be
combined with policy tools related to energy labelling, carbon emissions, sustainable procurement,
and so on, to play a key role in energy use reduction.

Optimizing Building Services: To this end, it is recommended that Riyadh implements Recommendation
ITU-T L.1370 ‘Sustainable and Intelligent Building Services’ on the requirements for efficient, sustainable
and intelligent building (SIB) management. It is also recommended that Riyadh keeps apprised of the
upcoming 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 critically assess
ten key areas of environmental performance and management, including:

• Energy

• Water
• Air

• Comfort
• Health and Wellness

• Purchasing
• Custodial

• Waste
• Site

• Stakeholders

20 U4SSC Factsheet | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | June 2020