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Category: Buildings

Performance to
Category KPI Result SDG
Benchmark
Public Building Not Reported
Sustainability

Integrated Building
Management Systems in Not Reported
Public Buildings

Mashhad was unable to report on these KPIs. It is, therefore, strongly recommended that Mashhad
collect and report on these two KPIs as an initial step and, if needed, invest in building sustainability
assessments and ICT-based integrated building management systems for its public buildings.

For the development of more sustainable public (and private) buildings, Mashhad should review
the goals, standards, and policies implemented in leading cities around the world. Goals could
follow the lead of a city like Singapore, which is striving towards a target of ‘greening’ 80 per cent
of its buildings by 2030, or by implementing policies and standard on sustainable design like the
Toronto Green Standard which provides sustainable design requirements for new private and
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city-owned developments.

Enhancing Performance Using ITU-T Recommendations:

Mashhad should review the concepts presented in 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 and possible functioning modes, its internal architecture, and requirements with the
IoT node at its core.

It is also recommended that Mashhad implement Recommendation ITU–T L.1371: ‘A methodology
for assessing and scoring the sustainability performance of office buildings’ as the basis for
improving the sustainability of its public (and possibly) private buildings. This Recommendation
provides a framework to critically assess and score ten key areas of environmental performance
and management: Energy, Water, Air, Comfort, Health and Wellness, Purchasing, Custodial, Waste,
Site, and Stakeholders. Use of this standard will allow Mashhad to develop baseline measures of
building sustainability, a plan for improving building performance, and measure the effects of
improvements on building performance.

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