Objectives Requirements LITERATURE REVIEW

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2.2 Requirements

The Green Building Index is an environmental rating system for buildings developed by PAM Pertubuhan Arkitek Malaysia Malaysian Institute of Architects and ACEM the Association of Consulting Engineers Malaysia. The Green Building Index is Malaysia’s first comprehensive rating system for evaluating the environmental design and performance of Malaysian buildings based on the six 6 main criteria of Energy Efficiency, Indoor Environment Quality, Sustainable Site Planning Management, Materials Resources, Water Efficiency, and Innovation. The Green Building Index is developed specifically for the Malaysian tropical weather, environmental and developmental context, cultural and social needs. The GBI initiative aims to assist the building industry in its march towards sustainable development. Sustainable building technologies are consists of: - Solar assisted air conditioning - Wind turbine - Daylight augmented lighting strategy - Building Integrated Photo Voltaic system - Rainwater harvesting and Waste management Hence, the class divided into five groups to investigate about green building technologies. 226

2.3 Program

All the groups supposed to do conceptual design during 6 hours on 15 March 2010. To do data collection for this case study we recorded their activities for whole day. The groups presented their concept proposals at the end of the same day. Panels commented their proposal to lead them to improve their concepts. The pre-final presentation was on 30 March 2010 and final presentation for final judgment happened on 16 April 2010.

3. Design Milestones

As mentioned before the architects have to do some studies about required technologies. Then they have to present their findings. Tentative schedule for design process has been shown in Table 1. Table 1- Tentative Schedule Description Due Date Issue 23 Feb 2010 Brief formulation 24 Feb 2010 Technological seminars 03 Mar 2010 Design presentation 30 Mar 2010 Assessing Proposals 16 Apr 2010 227

4. Results

4.1 Technological studies

The class regarding the schedule presented their investigations about the technology which they have to study. Grouping detail to investigate about technologies is shown in Table 2. All the lecture sessions for this course which entails technological presentations by 5 formed groups have been recorded by this researcher. Table 4- Grouping for seminar for Green Building Technologies Student Name Group No. Technology - Tee Khay Mee - Saiful Azam bin Azizan - Zarina BT Bachok - Ng Han Luong 1 Solar assisted air conditioning - Haw Yoke Ah - The Soon Beng - Nurul Ain Ahmad - Mohd Faizal bin Razali 2 Wind turbine WM - Gan Poh Tin - Goh Yin Chuan - Noor Adili bin Kamarudin - Mohd Safarin Savikon 3 Daylight augmented lighting strategy WS - Muhammad Fairuz bin Ahamad - Loo Jie Hsin - The Min Shen 4 Building Integrated Photo Voltaic System DD - Teoh Lee Moi - Tan Khang Hung - Fadzil Ikhwan bin Ismail - Daphne Lian Fang Siew 5 Rainwater harvesting and Waste management MF During each presentation some photos have been taken as additional evidences for this process.