Red-Yellow-Green-Greenest Building-The Tropical Adaptation of the Passive House Approach in the Light of Green Certification
- Business School, University of Kuala Lumpur, 1016 JalanSultan Ismail, 50250 Kuala Lumpur
Published in The Third NZAAR International Event Series on Natural and Built Environment, Cities, Sustainability and Advanced Engineering, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 15 July 2017, page 5. New Zealand Academy of Applied Research. ISSN 2463-5979 (online), 2463-5960 (print). Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, Conference Proceedings Citation Index (Clarivate).
Summary
Over the past decade, a high-tech developing country like Malaysia has become sensitive and proactive towards green solutions for the built environment which is responsible for slightly more than 1/3 of the country's greenhouse emissions. Based on the Paris Agreement, 2016 Malaysia has pledged to a 45% reduction in its greenhouse emissions by 2030, and cut 32 million tonnes of carbon emissions by 2020. Malaysia, on the spearhead of the development in the region, can embark on viable environmental survival strategies to turn green ideas into practice. The socalled developed countries in the north, most of them with their energy potential being far more restricted, have already devised a wide variety of energy regulations and according renewable technologies that might be adaptable to green & energy efficient buildings. This contribution focuses on the adaptation of the Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) deriving from the European Union and the implications for a tropical country. Derived from the Passive House design at its extreme green end, it comes up with a simple scientific colorful rainbow tool kit not only to measure the CO 2 -emission. The speech sketches a case-study related staggered procedure how to save CO 2 according to the thermal comfort needs and affordability of its inhabitants.
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