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A crucial component of designing intelligent and ecologically friendly environments nowadays is electricity consumption forecasting. The generation of energy can be enhanced to effectively meet the population's rising requirements by using the prediction of future electricity consumption. Due to the broad variety of consumption patterns, it is difficult to anticipate the energy requirements of buildings. Therefore, this work uses a dual-steam approach with multi-head attention to anticipate the power consumption of the building to address this issue and produce precise predictions. The proposed network concurrently learns temporal representations through a Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit (BGRU) and spatial patterns through Atrous Convolutional Neural Network (ACNN). The obtained features are combined to create a single feature vector that is used as the input for the multi-head attention, which finds the features that are most suited to forecasting the electricity consumption of a building. Finally, the dense layer receives the effective features and uses them to forecast short-term power consumption. In this paper, the proposed dual-stream network with attention outperforms competing models, achieving the lowest error value for hourly building power consumption prediction, according to experimentation on the household electricity consumption dataset.