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Effectiveness of Green Building Concept through Post Occupancy Evaluation: An Indicative Study
are based on the response provided by the green office-
building occupants.
From the finding, it has been found that the most effective
equipment apply based on available criteria for energy is white
ceiling. It shows that most of the respondents strongly agree that
white ceiling is the most effective equipment if compared with
other equipment like low E glass, photovoltaic (PV) panel and
natural lighting. For the innovation, quality of recycle bin is the
most effective to apply, compare with other equipments such as
quantity of bin and colour of bin. This is because enough quantity
is able to help the building to be always clean and clear. It is better building developments. Various parties should encourage
compared with the quality and colour where they are not really
helping to be better green buildings.
For indoor air quality, respondents are satisfied with temperature
and indoor air quality that is provided. This is because the people
occupying the green building are suitable with the temperature
there. It shows that, the statement saying that indoor quality is
warm is really depending on which green building referred to.
Besides that, for the sustainable site section, green roof is really
helping to reduce heat inside. Reduce heating in the building also
can reduce the bill of electricity. This green roof is really able to
reduce heat inside compared with the ability of green roof where
it can reduce the noise during rainy days and the colour of roof
can give more attraction to occupants.
For the water aspects, applying water tap with irrigation is the
most effective compared with applying the waterless urinal and
waterless urinal give benefit to the building. This is because
the water tap with irrigation applied can reduce the usage of
wastewater. For materials used, the most effective material and
effective equipments would save overall cost. This is because
the material applied is from the green labeled, which already has
certificate from the US. Furthermore, the green material is more
secured than other materials.
5.0 Conclusion
In conclusion, the result shows that the related appliances
present at the green building overall are in good condition based
on the measurement of their correlated criteria. Besides that, the
point of view from the respondents are very important to know
whether the people occupied at the said building are suitable or
not with the green building concept and equipments applied.
The effectiveness of green building concept based on available
criteria stated can also be analysed. The effectiveness is helping
out in choosing the materials and equipments during the
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construction stages. Consequently, from the analysed result that
has been getting, it can also help the owner of the said building
to know which equipments are suitable to be applied or not.
The owner also can detect which one of them is not effective
equipments and should not be applied, thus helping to avoid
future mistake.
Post occupancy evaluation is one of the best ways to assess
the occupants’ satisfaction in the green building together with
its management in Malaysia office building. Government should
provide initiative to help private firms to be involved in green
each other to get involve in the green building development
in Malaysia. Further research is suggested to provide a more
comprehensive study through the interview with the building
manager or facilities management in gaining more details
and involve numerous case studies with involvement of more
respondents in questionnaire survey.
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