Self assessment green building index for residential estates

Abstract

This research studies an assessment of Green Building Index for existing building in Malaysia. The current action taken on the application of sustainability is more towards the development of Renewable Energy (RE) and Energy Efficiency (EE) initiatives in residential buildings, which is one of the key elements in sustainable building. In Malaysia, there is no green buildings that have age of over 5 year’s in life cycles. Malaysia is also lacking behind in the application of green building, whereas there’s no property edition adopted rating system available for resident. The most important thing is the governance structure of administration, management and the policy is not yet in place. This research is an effort to contribute an idea for better green building application for the future. Self assessment will reduce cost in Professional assessment for green building. The objective in this research is to identify the knowledge level on GBI parameter by the resident, develop self assessment form on green building application in Malaysia for residential house and to assess self assessment form and make an improvement for wide user adoption .Method that uses to achieve this objective is by quantitative method among resident and professional, also qualitative method with professional team such PAM and GSB. Several data showed that the lower understanding of resident in GBI term such as OTTV, RTTV, MASMA, regional material and many more. The self assessment developed based on the previous data, literature review and existing GBI. The last objective is to compare self assessment marking with professional marking and it showed that professional marking is higher than self assessment. And it conclude that the self assessment need to be improve. Some recommendation for the future study is also suggested and hope would help the construction professionals especially governance to make a better decision for better green building application in the future.