Sustainability and Optimizing Energy Consumption in Architecture of the Built Educational Spaces (Case Study: Hashtgerd Branch)

Statement of the problem. This paper is a part of research project by Islamic Azad University to check if energy consumption in its Hashtgerd Branch is optimized and if it is not what the solutions for a built educational project can be suggested. What will be studied in this paper, at first, is a review and basic studies of sustainability which will be the main solution of research problem at the end. Next, as educational buildings, as public spaces, have more energy consumption and have especial architectural details and conditions, we will study the current situation of architectural and energy consumption details of our selected and built case study to see positive and negative points. Results. The results of the research show that despite the positive points, many of the negative points have been detected that led to high energy consumption and as the project is built, availability of changes are harder. Conclusions. As this research is a qualitative research and in the other hand the project needs to adopt itself with the policies of the Ministry of Power and Energy of the country, qualitative solutions which are based on sustainability rules, will be checked and offered. The results show that by managing sustainabi-lity rules in a built project, the energy consumptions can be reduced and optimized.