Green Building Index Malaysia -Qualitative Survey on Vernacular Housing Type in Malaysia

Green Building Index Malaysia is a profession driven initiative to lead the property industry of Malaysia towards becoming more environmental friendly. To do this, they have introduced Green Building Index (M) Assessment Criteria for Residential New Construction for new residential construction t...

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Main Author: Abdullah, Ahmad Syafri
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS 2010
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spelling my-utp-utpedia.100592013-10-29T10:51:53Z http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/10059/ Green Building Index Malaysia -Qualitative Survey on Vernacular Housing Type in Malaysia Abdullah, Ahmad Syafri TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Green Building Index Malaysia is a profession driven initiative to lead the property industry of Malaysia towards becoming more environmental friendly. To do this, they have introduced Green Building Index (M) Assessment Criteria for Residential New Construction for new residential construction to be built to be more environmental friendly. Vernacular architecture is a term used to categorize methods of construction which use locally available resources and traditions to address local needs. 4 building types, one including modern terrace house, while the others are vernacular architecture, are chosen so that it can be assessed by GBI (M) Assessment Criteria and scored accordingly to find out which one scores the highest. The feasibility of the assessment tools are also taken into consideration as this project is assessing existing buildings and not new construction. Some modifications are done to the assessment tools to make it more suitable to the project. The results firom the project show that vernacular buildings scores much higher than the modern terrace house. This shows that vernacular residential buildings are much more environmental friendly than modernterrace house. Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS 2010-06 Final Year Project NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/10059/1/2010%20-%20Green%20Building%20Index%20Malaysia-Qualitative%20Survey%20on%20Vernacular%20Housing%20Type%20in%20Malaysia.pdf Abdullah, Ahmad Syafri (2010) Green Building Index Malaysia -Qualitative Survey on Vernacular Housing Type in Malaysia. Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS. (Unpublished)
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Abdullah, Ahmad Syafri
Green Building Index Malaysia -Qualitative Survey on Vernacular Housing Type in Malaysia
description Green Building Index Malaysia is a profession driven initiative to lead the property industry of Malaysia towards becoming more environmental friendly. To do this, they have introduced Green Building Index (M) Assessment Criteria for Residential New Construction for new residential construction to be built to be more environmental friendly. Vernacular architecture is a term used to categorize methods of construction which use locally available resources and traditions to address local needs. 4 building types, one including modern terrace house, while the others are vernacular architecture, are chosen so that it can be assessed by GBI (M) Assessment Criteria and scored accordingly to find out which one scores the highest. The feasibility of the assessment tools are also taken into consideration as this project is assessing existing buildings and not new construction. Some modifications are done to the assessment tools to make it more suitable to the project. The results firom the project show that vernacular buildings scores much higher than the modern terrace house. This shows that vernacular residential buildings are much more environmental friendly than modernterrace house.
format Final Year Project
author Abdullah, Ahmad Syafri
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author_sort Abdullah, Ahmad Syafri
title Green Building Index Malaysia -Qualitative Survey on Vernacular Housing Type in Malaysia
title_short Green Building Index Malaysia -Qualitative Survey on Vernacular Housing Type in Malaysia
title_full Green Building Index Malaysia -Qualitative Survey on Vernacular Housing Type in Malaysia
title_fullStr Green Building Index Malaysia -Qualitative Survey on Vernacular Housing Type in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Green Building Index Malaysia -Qualitative Survey on Vernacular Housing Type in Malaysia
title_sort green building index malaysia -qualitative survey on vernacular housing type in malaysia
publisher Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS
publishDate 2010
url http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/10059/1/2010%20-%20Green%20Building%20Index%20Malaysia-Qualitative%20Survey%20on%20Vernacular%20Housing%20Type%20in%20Malaysia.pdf
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