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In the field of contemporary architectural thinking, students are usually taking the terminology “Sustainable Design” as a theme in their projects. However, due to their lack of awareness concerning the principles behind it, the expression ends up being a baseless word that affects directly their project evaluation. In order to avoid the misuse of such a social impacting ideology, students must be conscious of several principles and guidelines for reaching sustainable design ideas. A definition of a series of criteria of sustainable design must be introduced to students as parameters for their design. This paper discusses some ways to provide awareness of sustainable design principles by emphasizing the basic approach considerations. They are mainly based on building awareness about sustainable education for a later survey to support the design principle. By such action, a definition of a series of parameters can be clearly defined during the design process, and later the data can be inserted in simulation tools to evaluate environmental performance of the design according to sustainable principles. In the end, a series of measurements will be shown as criteria to evaluate projects to support the designers’ decision in addition to increasing awareness when conceiving sustainable design.