Green Building
CHAPTER 1
1. INTRODUCTION
People nowadays are more concern about the environmental since they know the effect of pollution to the environment and to human’s health. Usually the conventional building used a lot of amount of power and produced large amount of carbon dioxides annually. Therefore, conventional building is one of the sources of global warming. Green building concept is an effort made to reduce the impacts of conventional building. Green building is a space and energy efficient home which can offer coziness and healthy living environment to its peoples. The green building used the sustainable resources. It is considered as sustainable resources because it can maximise our resources by taking from the natural and produce less effect on the environment.
At present day, the world’s population is getting more and more concerned about the activities which can lead the global warming and pollution to the environment. For example, residential owners used up large amount of power and become a major source of global warming since it produced 10 to 30 tons of carbon dioxides annually. Every individual have to play the roles in protecting the earth from any pollution of environment. Green technologies can be used to protect the earth from environment pollution. A green technology is one of the efforts to reduce the impacts to the environment. Although green technology have been around for countries but they are only practiced mostly in Western countries.
Environmental Management System (EMS) has been one of the important tools for sustainable construction for around two decades. In Malaysia, critical environmental disruption are directly related to the development activities like land development and natural resources activities, waste disposal activities and others. However, lots of issues regarding sustainable development have not been properly addressed, and there is need for the introduction of the green specifications to advance green performance
1. INTRODUCTION
People nowadays are more concern about the environmental since they know the effect of pollution to the environment and to human’s health. Usually the conventional building used a lot of amount of power and produced large amount of carbon dioxides annually. Therefore, conventional building is one of the sources of global warming. Green building concept is an effort made to reduce the impacts of conventional building. Green building is a space and energy efficient home which can offer coziness and healthy living environment to its peoples. The green building used the sustainable resources. It is considered as sustainable resources because it can maximise our resources by taking from the natural and produce less effect on the environment.
At present day, the world’s population is getting more and more concerned about the activities which can lead the global warming and pollution to the environment. For example, residential owners used up large amount of power and become a major source of global warming since it produced 10 to 30 tons of carbon dioxides annually. Every individual have to play the roles in protecting the earth from any pollution of environment. Green technologies can be used to protect the earth from environment pollution. A green technology is one of the efforts to reduce the impacts to the environment. Although green technology have been around for countries but they are only practiced mostly in Western countries.
Environmental Management System (EMS) has been one of the important tools for sustainable construction for around two decades. In Malaysia, critical environmental disruption are directly related to the development activities like land development and natural resources activities, waste disposal activities and others. However, lots of issues regarding sustainable development have not been properly addressed, and there is need for the introduction of the green specifications to advance green performance
References: Boukamp, F, Akinci, B, (2007), Automated Processing of Construction Specification to Support Inspection and Quality Control”, Automation in Construction, pp. 90 – 106 Patrick T.I