MAJAL, the Academic Urban Observatory, initiated in 2008 the project entitled “Promoting Sustainable Construction in Lebanese Universities” aiming at raising awareness on specific sustainable construction techniques in schools of architecture across Lebanon thus inciting students to apply sustainability standards in their design projects and encouraging school administrations to introduce classes on sustainable construction in their curricula.
After the success of the project for 2008-2009 whereby sustainable construction techniques were introduced to architecture students and teachers across Lebanon which led to the participation of 221 students from 7 Lebanese universities in the Sustainable Construction competition launched by Majal in 2009; MAJAL’s team decided to follow up this project in 2010 by launching the second edition of the sustainable architecture competition.