Implementation of Green Building in Malaysia

Leong, Kay Min (2020) Implementation of Green Building in Malaysia. Final Year Project (Bachelor), Tunku Abdul Rahman University College.

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Abstract

Nowadays, due to people increasing focus on environmental protection, the green building technology become important. Thus, the main objectives of this research is to determine the implementation of green building in Malaysia. Therefore, this study will aim to determine the benefits of green building. Besides that, this study intend to determine the obstacles will be facing when using in Malaysia. Moreover, it also investigate the effect of using green building in Malaysia. The start of this study is the literature review, the literature review will provide a summary of various type of benefits of using green building, the different type of obstacles of using green building in Malaysia, and also the effect that will bring by green building in Malaysia. Depend on the information of the literature review, a questionnaire survey will be prepared, and also this study will use qualitative research will be conducted for this study. After the questionnaire prepared completely, then will distributed to the citizens of using green building, the employer and employees of green building company in Malaysia. There were only 30 respondents from the related parties responded to the questionnaire survey. Therefore the data collection will be analyzed by using the Excel Statistics to accomplish the objectives. Based on the results obtained by the questionnaire, the main benefits that will bring to people is to protect environment, this also due to the main purpose of green building is to protect environment while reduce pollution of environment. The lack promotion of green building also cause the green building hard to implement in Malaysia, because most of the citizens of Malaysia also lack of a detail information of green building, so a better promotion will bring let more Malaysian try to use green building technology. The implementation of green building in Malaysia also will bring a competitiveness between normal building and green building industries. This is because the green building still not common in Malaysia, but as time goes by, the green building will become common and start have a competitiveness with normal building. Thus, this research will be a useful reference for not only the industry players in Malaysia but also the the parties who interesting of using green building in Malaysia.