Green Pyramid Certificate.. A friendship plan between environment and tourism in Egypt

An Egyptian official revealed a plan implemented by the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities some time ago to transform tourist facilities into green, environmentally friendly buildings, in light of Egypt’s preparations to host the Cop27 Climate Summit in Sharm El-Sheikh next November.

Last Thursday, the Grand Egyptian Museum, near the Giza pyramids, received the gold certificate for green building and sustainability, according to the Egyptian Green Pyramid System.

The Green Pyramid Certificate issued by the National Center for Housing and Building Research in Egypt, for buildings that adopt environmentally friendly strategies and achieve sustainable development.

During the ceremony of awarding the Green Pyramid Certificate to the Grand Egyptian Museum, Major General Atef Moftah, the museum project supervisor, explained that the museum had sought during the past period, in cooperation with the National Center for Housing and Building Research, to accredit the museum as a green building that is environmentally friendly and to certify green building and sustainability certificates.

He stressed that the museum had recently adopted a clear strategy for sustainable development, which qualified it to obtain several certificates and prizes in this regard, the latest of which was the Green Building Award, which it won during the Arab Water Forum last September, expressing his happiness at the museum’s winning of this award to be the first museum in Egypt to be organized. Adopting it as a green building that is environmentally friendly, as a result of striving to maintain the ecological balance, the sustainability of tourism and archaeological activity, and the encouragement of a shift towards a green economy.

Meanwhile, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Center for Housing and Building Research, Khaled Al-Dhahabi, said that the Grand Egyptian Museum was built on the latest architectural styles in the world, using the latest technologies that achieve and take into account sustainability.

While the spokeswoman for the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism, Suha Bahgat, told “TnT Universal Tv” that the ministry is following a plan to transform all facilities and facilities of tourism and antiquities in Egypt into green facilities that are environmentally friendly, as well as training its employees on ways to preserve the environment, within the framework of transformation and the state’s general orientation for transformation. For the green economy within the vision of 2030, as well as in light of Egypt’s preparations to host the climate summit.

She explained that the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, in cooperation with the Chamber of Hotel Establishments, organized during the last period several training workshops for workers at the executive and supervisory level in hotel establishments in Sharm El-Sheikh and other tourist cities, within the framework of the ministry’s keenness to familiarize workers in the tourism sector with the concepts of sustainability and green tourism and to educate them about environmentally friendly green practices and how to Mitigating the effects of climate change.

She stressed that this plan depends on qualifying hotel and tourist establishments workers on the principles of environmental care and sustainability concepts and how to apply them in the scope of tourism and hotel work, and hundreds of workers in this sector participated in it.

She added that the ministry aims to train all workers in the first ranks dealing with tourists in hotels, restaurants, diving clubs, bazaars, museums and temples, and introduce them to the concepts of sustainability and green tourism, pointing out that these principles will be generalized to all workers in tourist cities, so that all tourism facilities in Egypt are transformed into green, environmentally friendly facilities.