*green rating tool for buildings to promote sustainability in the built environment that recognised in Malaysia
*rating tool that design for Malaysian which is suit for tropical climate, environmental, cultural and social
*it's created to:
• define green buildings by establishing a common language and standard of measurement;
• promote integrated, whole-building designs that provides a better environment for all;
• recognise and reward environmental leadership;
• transform the built environment to reduce its negative environmental impact; and
• ensure new buildings remain relevant in the future and existing buildings are refurbished and upgraded to improve the overall quality of our building stock.
Source: GBI official website 2013 (http://www.greenbuildingindex.org/)
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| source: penang monthly (http://penangmonthly.com) |
GBI has six criteria as showed at above figure and they listed sequences according to their weight in the allocation of points . this is weight for non-residential building use.
- Energy efficiency -35
- Indoor Environmental quality -21
- Sustainable Site Planning and Management -16
- Material and Resources -11
- Water Efficiency -10
- Innovation -7
for the residential building, its weight in the allocation of points is distribute as showed below:-
- Sustainable Site Planning and Management -39
- Energy efficiency -23
- Water Efficiency -12
- Indoor Environmental quality -11
- Material and Resources -9
- Innovation -6
GBI rating have prepare for different kind of development which they are included:-
- NRNC – Non-Residential New Construction
- RNC – Residential New Construction
- NREB – Non-Residential Existing Building
- INC – Industrial New Construction
- IEB – Industrial Existing Building
The GBI assessment process includes three steps:
1. Application & registration
2. Design assessment
3. Completion & verification assessment
and for your information, there are total 234 is applied on 2002 but just have 3 building that completed and get the verification.
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| GBI project listing on January 2002. Source: GREENBUILDINGINDEX Sdn. Bhd. |
below is the GBI rating classification based on their GBI points collected in the six criteria.
the higher is Platinum, Gold, Silver and lastly Certified.
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| source: penang monthly (http://penangmonthly.com) |
conclusion:
for my opinion, the GBI rating system is still alot of challenges...
first, there are still low awareness about green building design... however, it's better than previous, where they are more and more company or industrial produce their product and claim their product is organic, use green material, renewable, produce less carbon emission and so on.... but does the purchaser or buyer care indeed? yes, they will tend to think this issues on future, they will care and think deeply but not now...now our country citizen not still that extent yet... for me, our awareness level now is just begin, where begin to abandoned plastic bag and use green bag, where every house is started planting landscape besides their house, their landscape purpose is more toward decoration part than other intentions i think...
however there is good beginning that we started do what western country had doing since century ago... besides that, the GBI system was a good initiator that encourage the increase of green building. however, the cost in implementing or building a green building was cost highly...and there are less developer that brave to take risks in building a green residential scheme widely due to its costs....and there is no fiscal incentive from government in encouraging this kind of project...
the crucial part is citizen is still lack of awareness and education about the importance of green building...
"green" is a part of human solution as they started felt that the earth and the natural environment is time to need a good care...thus healthy environment will contribute to a higher quality life for its residents....
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| green building can improve human life to be quality !! source: http://led.ideen.com.my |
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