Challenges of Green Building Planning in Developing Countries: Iraq As a Case Study

Over the recent decades, we can see an increase of environmental concern across the world, and the need to create standardized sustainable building system in order to reduce environmental burdens, and enhance the life spares. In this context, construction has seen the introduction of new ideas, most strikingly those associated with the term "green buildings," which emphasizes environmental efficiency as well as economic and social functionality of buildings in both their design and operation.