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A frame work was presented for the assessment of the quality of life through the development of different indicators applied for Egypt. This paper focuses on the assessment of the quality of life using previously developed indicators in the first part of the study. A GIS user-friendly interface was developed to enhance the presentation of the study. This enables non technical users to directly use the developed GIS application to explore different concerns.Three cases were demonstrated in this paper, where an assessment of the quality of life of farmers, civilians, and agricultural investors was attained under specific scenario in each case. Assessment for other cases can still be made by browsing through the dropdown menu for each interest group under the selected scenario. Based on the demonstrated results for the three groups of people, it was found that the quality of life for a certain group of people under the strict scenario is in general less than the quality of life for the same group under the relax scenario.

This study summarizes previous proposals and studies concerning Qattara power projects and gives some details about a new concept, which aims to produce hydropower like all previous proposals, and also extra electric power and fresh water via a site specific solar-pond-chimney system. Sea water from the Mediterranean Sea and re-used water from the end of Rosetta branch would feed an artificial lake in the Qattara Depression, where salt gradient heating phenomena would be exploited. The proposed scheme entails two inlet water ways (for sea water and re-used water) and an outlet water way for the produced fresh water. Several experimental studies in a hydraulic lab will be required to clarify technical and economic feasibility aspects.

Nowadays, due to the rapidly changing patterns of life and scale of activities, a more familiar approach towards conservation must be adopted, especially if all the values of historic buildings and towns are to be recognized, preserved and used. Adaptive reuse has proven to be an important strategy in conserving historical buildings. In the literature review of the caravanserais types of historical building, few cases were successfully reused. The focus of this research is the viability of adaptive reuse as a sustainable strategy in the conservation of caravanserais. As they are considered as heritage buildings, the conservation of their cultural significant value is an important goal to achieve. However, this research aims to review the sustainable adaptive reuse of caravanserais and to find a framework of sustainable adaptive reuse for the case studies. As criteria of selection, the selected buildings share several characteristics such as historical values, structural importance and whether they have achieved a successful adaptive reuse process. The criteria of analysis for the selected examples are on two levels: first are the new functional advantages -economically and socially; the second will be conservation status -structure deviation and improvement including discussion on if new materials were used. In addition, from this research we can conclude that adaptive reuse enhances the longer-term usefulness of a building and is therefore a more sustainable option than demolition and rebuilding. The benefits from adaptive reuse include social values and community expectations, economic viability and environmental sustainability.

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