Potential retrofitting of existing campus buildings to green buildings
Green building is building that the focus is to maximize the energy efficiency and resources used. While, retrofitting is the process of renovate or refurnish the existing building. Therefore by retrofit existing buildings that comply with green building requirement, it improves the environmental at...
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my.utm.357492017-02-04T06:44:22Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/35749/ Potential retrofitting of existing campus buildings to green buildings Zakaria, Rozana Kian, Seng Foo Mohamad Zin, Rosli Yang, Jay Zolfagharian, Samaneh TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Green building is building that the focus is to maximize the energy efficiency and resources used. While, retrofitting is the process of renovate or refurnish the existing building. Therefore by retrofit existing buildings that comply with green building requirement, it improves the environmental attributes of the buildings. In Malaysia, existing buildings and its communities contribute over 40% of green house gases to the environment. This paper describes a study that explores the potential to retrofit existing campus buildings that response to sustainable green building standard. A validation survey was carried out and the data collected was analysed using SPSS in order to confirm the significance of retrofitting Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) buildings toward green building initiative. The results show that all the twenty eight identified green elements recorded average index of higher than 3.5 which means that there is significant needs to retrofit the existing buildings to green buildings. This study concludes that it is urgently need for the campus to response to green building requirements in order to achieve higher energy effeciency and this can be done through effective etrofitting of existing buildings. Trans Tech Publications 2012 Book Section PeerReviewed Zakaria, Rozana and Kian, Seng Foo and Mohamad Zin, Rosli and Yang, Jay and Zolfagharian, Samaneh (2012) Potential retrofitting of existing campus buildings to green buildings. In: Applied Mechanics and Materials. Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland, pp. 42-45. ISBN 978-303785424-2 http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.178-181.42 DOI:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.178-181.42 |
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Green building is building that the focus is to maximize the energy efficiency and resources used. While, retrofitting is the process of renovate or refurnish the existing building. Therefore by retrofit existing buildings that comply with green building requirement, it improves the environmental attributes of the buildings. In Malaysia, existing buildings and its communities contribute over 40% of green house gases to the environment. This paper describes a study that explores the potential to retrofit existing campus buildings that response to sustainable green building standard. A validation survey was carried out and the data collected was analysed using SPSS in order to confirm the significance of retrofitting Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) buildings toward green building initiative. The results show that all the twenty eight identified green elements recorded average index of higher than 3.5 which means that there is significant needs to retrofit the existing buildings to green buildings. This study concludes that it is urgently need for the campus to response to green building requirements in order to achieve higher energy effeciency and this can be done through effective etrofitting of existing buildings. |
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