Jessi A. Candia
Metric No: BK10110109
Topic: THE IMPLEMENTATION OF GREEN BUILDING TECHNOLOGY IN WEST MALAYSIA
Abstact: This thesis is mainly concerned with the implementation of Green Building technology in West Malaysia and also to study the level of awareness that is in the construction industries.
In addition, this study also discovered the driving factors, limitations, readiness and various green materials used. In order to know get the information, survey were made with several sections divided according to the requirement of the objectives stated and the respondents answered by using Likert scale and was sent to the developers/engineers in West Malaysia by e-mails and online surveys. Results showed in bar charts and tables where higher scale votes by the respondents were taken as the most accurate/true information. For objective one, 65 % of the developers/engineers have high awareness on the benefits of Green Building technology and 64 % on environmental protection. Also, several driving factors, limitations, readiness were also shown. For objective 2, 47 % of the green companies and 65 % of the non-green companies agreed that there are many Green Building technologies that had been applied in West Malaysia and that it must need to be applying regularly. For objective 3, green materials were mentioned like woods, green roofs, precast concrete and etc were also discovered.