1. Introduction
Green building is the practice of creating structures and using processes that are environmentally responsible and resource-efficient throughout a building life-cycle: from siting to design, construction, operation, maintenance, renovation and deconstruction. This practice expands and complements the classical building design concerns of economy, utility, durability and comfort.
In Malaysia, Standards and Industrial Research Institute of Malaysia (SIRIM) promotes green building techniques. Driven by environmental needs, Green Building Index (GBI) w
as jointly founded and developed by Pertubuhan Arkitek Malaysia (PAM) and the Association of Consulting Engineers Malaysia (ACEM) in 2009. GBI (M) is a profession driven initiative to lead the property industry towards becoming more friendly. It is intended to promote sustainability in the built environment and raise awareness among developers, architects, engineers, planners, designers, contractors and the public about environmental issues.
as jointly founded and developed by Pertubuhan Arkitek Malaysia (PAM) and the Association of Consulting Engineers Malaysia (ACEM) in 2009. GBI (M) is a profession driven initiative to lead the property industry towards becoming more friendly. It is intended to promote sustainability in the built environment and raise awareness among developers, architects, engineers, planners, designers, contractors and the public about environmental issues. 2. Green Building Index in Malaysia
Malaysia's Green Building Index or GBI(M) will the only rating tool for the tropical zones other than Singapore Government's GREENMARK. GBI(M) parameters are within the tropical climatic conditions. Its scoring priorities are very much customized for the current state of Malaysia where a lot of priority is given to energy and water efficiency scores. GBI(M) differs markedly from Singapore's GREENMARK thus understandably GBI(M) rating priorities should be like-wise customized to suit - both Malaysian climate and also the current the current state of the country's development and existing resources.
The GBI is developed specifically for the Malaysian-tropical climate, environmental and developmental context, cultural and social needs and is created to:
- Define green buildings by establishing a common language and standard of measurement
- Promote integrated, whole-building designs that provides a better environment for all
- Recognise and reward environmental leadership
- Transform the built environment to reduce its negative environmental impact; and
- Ensure new buildings remain relevant in the future and existing buildings are refurbished and upgraded to improve the overall quality of our building stock.
For details: http://www.greenbuildingindex.org/index.html
3. Our First Green Building!
Finally, we have our first green building in Malaysia, GT Tower! The building is located on a strategic prime location in Kuala Lumpur, Jalan Tun Razak and just a few hundred meters from the KLCC Park. The first green building construction project has been successfully certified by Building and Construction Authority of Singapore (BCA) with Green Mark Gold Status.
As we know green building is not making green color building design and construct building that reduce use of energy and natural resource in more efficient way.The purpose of green building is not only that.It also can reduce pollution to our environment.
ReplyDeleteI had saw Discovery Channel and known a bit about green building.Green building can been added and designed with lives flora or garden in certain area and top of the building to decrease the temperature of building. So, the building can be cooled by the natural environment that come from the garden.This practice can contribute building management reduce use of energy for air-conditioner and replace energy used in air-conditioner for other operations.
From this, the company will save cost and reduce emission of CFC gaseous from air-conditioner.The green building may be can contribute high cost for its construction and designation. But it can reduce cost operations and energy to the companies including reduce pollution to the environment.
It's new way and new kind of thinking to building.Smart architect invent new plan.this shape of Building means to construct and manage buildings in an economic way that hinders environmental burdens and conserves resources. Thus, a sustainable building contributes to the protection of human health, and social as well as cultural values.
ReplyDeleteThe building sector has the greatest potential to reduce CO2 emissions. Currently, 30% of global CO2 emissions and 40% of global resource consumption is a result of constructing buildings. Our main goals is to optimise the environmental performance of a building using a life cycle approach, in which the materials and products used in a building are compared and evaluated for best performance at the building level. To enable such comparisons, information about the environmental performance of products must consistently be reliable and available.
I was wondering whether anybody out there, be they authorities or policy makers should also consider ranking or auditting retrofitted buildings to at least partially comply to GBI. Apart from incentives, I would think this measures would promote and accelerate the refurbishment of old buildings thereby making sure every building owners would want to participate in "greening" their buildings. Current GBI standards appears to favor new buildings, and leave present building as it is, resulting in continuous leakages of CO2 due to consumption of large amount of energy. If incentives are given for new buildings, why not the same given for old and existing buildings?
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