Green Building Concept In Malaysia

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Green building concept in malaysia. 6017 8510 700 email. Green buildings preserve precious natural resources and improve our quality of life. Driven by a concern for environmental degradation and national energy security malaysia s green building sector is mushrooming. Malaysian green building rating system malaysia green building index gbi has been developed and widely used since 2009.

The good news is that green building in malaysia are gradually becoming a norm as major developers had adopted the concept of green construction for better business development. A green building is a building that in its design construction or operation reduces or eliminates negative impacts and can create positive impacts on our climate and natural environment. The green building movement in the u s. Green building initiatives in malaysia is a concern that has received bigger attentions from government agencies private organizations and the public at large for almost a decade now.

The green building index gbi is malaysia s industry recognised green rating tool for buildings to promote sustainability in the built environment and raise awareness among developers architects engineers planners designers contractors and the public about environmental issues and our responsibility to the future generations. This private sector driven initiative aims to promote sustainability in the built environment and raise awareness among the industry players about environment issues. There are a number of features which can make a building green. The green building mission launched recently by the malaysian government is an indication of a promising effort to ensure sustainable production and delivery of the construction industry products to fulfil these demands.

This paper aims to present malaysia s green developments focusing on the national green technology policy and green building index which have been introduced since 2009. The rachel carson book silent spring published in 1962 is considered to be one of the first initial efforts to describe sustainable development as related to green building.