Advocating sustainable building paradigm through value management

Sustainability issues had become one of the top issues of Malaysia construction industry. The implication of sustainable dimensions into construction project helps in generating buildings which are energy efficient, healthy, comfortable and flexible while at the same time increases its durability. V...

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Main Authors: Abd-Karim, Saipol Bari, Wah, Hewwan, Jaapar, Aini, Mohd. Suhaimi, Mohamad Saiful Nizam, Berawi, Mohammed Ali
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Language:English
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Published: University of Malaya 2017
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spelling iium-627002018-04-04T09:01:35Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/62700/ Advocating sustainable building paradigm through value management Abd-Karim, Saipol Bari Wah, Hewwan Jaapar, Aini Mohd. Suhaimi, Mohamad Saiful Nizam Berawi, Mohammed Ali NA Architecture Sustainability issues had become one of the top issues of Malaysia construction industry. The implication of sustainable dimensions into construction project helps in generating buildings which are energy efficient, healthy, comfortable and flexible while at the same time increases its durability. Value management (VM) is proposed as a tool used to promote sustainable building (SB). VM aims to achieve optimum value of a project based on its objectives and its approach is much similar w ith sustainability which ideally focusing on achieving values, not just economically, but environmentally and social aspects of the project. This paper investigated the practicability of the VM-SB integration in the Malaysia construction industry. It explores the development and practices of VM-SB concept as well as assessing the perfonnance criteria of integrating VM in SB projects. Findings from the questionnaire surveys which were distributed to G7 contractors show ed that the VM-SB integration is still low7 but gradually increasing. More know ledge and understanding of both concepts are needed prior to be implemented into a project as there are potentials for VM-SB concept to be adapted to all projects in the near future. University of Malaya 2017-12-29 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/62700/2/62700_Advocating%20sustainable%20building%20paradigm_scopus.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/62700/13/62700_Advocating%20sustainable%20building%20paradigm.pdf Abd-Karim, Saipol Bari and Wah, Hewwan and Jaapar, Aini and Mohd. Suhaimi, Mohamad Saiful Nizam and Berawi, Mohammed Ali (2017) Advocating sustainable building paradigm through value management. Journal of Design and Built Environment, 17 (Special Issue). pp. 95-106. ISSN 1823-4208 E-ISSN 2232-1500 https://ejournal.um.edu.my/index.php/jdbe/article/view/10146
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Abd-Karim, Saipol Bari
Wah, Hewwan
Jaapar, Aini
Mohd. Suhaimi, Mohamad Saiful Nizam
Berawi, Mohammed Ali
Advocating sustainable building paradigm through value management
description Sustainability issues had become one of the top issues of Malaysia construction industry. The implication of sustainable dimensions into construction project helps in generating buildings which are energy efficient, healthy, comfortable and flexible while at the same time increases its durability. Value management (VM) is proposed as a tool used to promote sustainable building (SB). VM aims to achieve optimum value of a project based on its objectives and its approach is much similar w ith sustainability which ideally focusing on achieving values, not just economically, but environmentally and social aspects of the project. This paper investigated the practicability of the VM-SB integration in the Malaysia construction industry. It explores the development and practices of VM-SB concept as well as assessing the perfonnance criteria of integrating VM in SB projects. Findings from the questionnaire surveys which were distributed to G7 contractors show ed that the VM-SB integration is still low7 but gradually increasing. More know ledge and understanding of both concepts are needed prior to be implemented into a project as there are potentials for VM-SB concept to be adapted to all projects in the near future.
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author Abd-Karim, Saipol Bari
Wah, Hewwan
Jaapar, Aini
Mohd. Suhaimi, Mohamad Saiful Nizam
Berawi, Mohammed Ali
author_facet Abd-Karim, Saipol Bari
Wah, Hewwan
Jaapar, Aini
Mohd. Suhaimi, Mohamad Saiful Nizam
Berawi, Mohammed Ali
author_sort Abd-Karim, Saipol Bari
title Advocating sustainable building paradigm through value management
title_short Advocating sustainable building paradigm through value management
title_full Advocating sustainable building paradigm through value management
title_fullStr Advocating sustainable building paradigm through value management
title_full_unstemmed Advocating sustainable building paradigm through value management
title_sort advocating sustainable building paradigm through value management
publisher University of Malaya
publishDate 2017
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/62700/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/62700/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/62700/2/62700_Advocating%20sustainable%20building%20paradigm_scopus.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/62700/13/62700_Advocating%20sustainable%20building%20paradigm.pdf
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