Preparedness among Technical Professionals for Green Building in the Malaysian Construction Industry

• Main Author: Mohamad Khairilfareez Bin Zainudin, Mohamad Khairilfareez
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi Petronas 2009
• Subjects: TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/561/1/mohamad_khairilfareez.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/561/

This project is entitled `Preparedness among Technical Professionals for Green Building in the Malaysian Construction Industry'. The aim for this project is to propose on how to promote Green Building and Green Building Rating System and also to recommend possible implementation strategy in Malaysia's Building and Construction Industry. This project is a quantitative survey based project that focuses on the awareness, understanding, preparedness and perceptions of the people in the industry, especially Technical Professionals from various fields including; Construction and Structure, Mechanical and Electrical, Architect, Quantity Surveyor, Contract Manager and etc, regarding Green Building concept and its' rating system. In conducting the survey, the questionnaire forms have been distributed through mail to various related companies. Furthermore, feedbacks and responses of the research were also collected by attending Malaysian Property Expo (MAPEX) and face to face interview with the respective personnel from the industry. Thorough literature review is done in order to have better explanations and evaluation of the findings. At the end of the report the author has concluded that the current condition of Malaysian Construction Industry in term of the awareness on global environment issues is still moderate and the understanding of the Green building concept, practices and techniques is relatively low. Thus, it reflects the preparedness of the industry on Green Building Rating System and the Green Building Index Malaysia to be in the same level as well