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The Malaysian Surveyor

Green building has some distinctiveness 50 Low Glass
such as saving resources, reducing energy 45 PV Panel
consumption, reducing pollution, improving 40
environmental quality of living room stated 35 Natural Lighting
(Mao and Yang, 2005). The element of 30 White Ceiling
green building applied is better than the 25
traditional concept applied for occupant. 20 Agree Natural Disagree Strongly
15 Disagree
3.0 Research 10
Methodology and 5
Findings 0

The scope of the study is focusing Strongly agree
on the issue of green building with
the emphasis of the post occupancy Figure 1: The Effective Ranking of Energy Element Based on Equipment Applied
evaluation and facility management of
green building in Malaysia. The green From the response received, most of the building users are satisfied with the energy
building together with the facility is element in the building. There is a high number of respondents strongly agreed for the
narrowed down to an office building white ceiling (46%), 46% level of agree for natural lighting, 44% for low E glass and 40%
located in Putrajaya, Malaysia. The for PV panel.
main reason of this building is chosen
is because it is located at the Federal Figure 2 shows most of the respondents agree with the satisfaction level from water
Government Administrative Centre of element in their office buildings. 46% from the respondents agree with equipment
Malaysia. The building selected for this
study is also the first office building in 60
Malaysia that earns the Green Building
Index platinum rating, and the first 50
outside of Singapore which obtain the
Green Mark platinum rating. Green Mark 40
is the Singapore’s certification scheme
for green building. Agree with equipment
waterless urinal applied
Following a literature review, a
quantitative method of data collection 30
is adopted in this study. 100 sets of
questionnaire are distributed to the Waterless urinal give
people occupying an office building more bene t to user
and 50 sets of valid response are
received. The respondents are among 20 Water tap with irrigation
the staffs and visitor that have been
selected in order to complete the is suitable to applied
study. The questionnaire comprises
two sections. Section A is more focus 10
on the demographic aspects of the
respondents’ related information to make 0 Agree Natural Disagree Strongly
the result accurate. Whereas Section Disagree
B focus on the satisfaction level of Strongly
the respondents towards the element agree
applied in the studied building.

Figure 2: The Effective Ranking of Water Element Based on Equipment Applied

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