Content analysis of the existence of biomimicry life’s principles in green building index Malaysia

Concerns about climate change and global warming have led many countries to initiate energy rating systems in the planning and development of the built environment. Although useful and novel, this paper contends that these ratings are only remedying and alleviating whatever negative impacts that dev...

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Main Authors:	Mohd Ariffin, Noor Aziah, Gad, Salwa Farag
Format:	Article
Language:	English English
Published:	Malaysian Institute of Planners 2017
Subjects:	NA2542.35 Environmental aspect of architecture NA Architecture NA2542.36 Sustainable architecture
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spelling	iium-571002018-03-18T09:21:16Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/57100/ Content analysis of the existence of biomimicry life’s principles in green building index Malaysia Mohd Ariffin, Noor Aziah Gad, Salwa Farag NA2542.35 Environmental aspect of architecture NA Architecture NA2542.36 Sustainable architecture Concerns about climate change and global warming have led many countries to initiate energy rating systems in the planning and development of the built environment. Although useful and novel, this paper contends that these ratings are only remedying and alleviating whatever negative impacts that development creates. Energy ratings are seemingly lacking in attempts to integrate and enhance the physical development of the natural environment. Instead, Biomimicry is a discipline that explores nature and tries to understand its bio-integration for the establishment of sustainable products, processes and systems. This paper postulates that with the integration of Biomimicry – Life’s Principles (BLP) into the Green Building Index (GBI) Malaysia, a higher level of environmental sustainability could be achieved. This paper attempted to explore the presence and the extent of the presence of BLP in the existing GBI utilizing the content analysis method. This article concludes that although the presence of BLP in the GBI is high, the extent of the presence is low. The paper also recommends the areas of concern that could be improved within the GBI for a more effective rating system. Keywords: Green Building Index (GBI); Biomimicry - Life’s Principles (BLP); content analysis; presence; extent of presence Malaysian Institute of Planners 2017 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/57100/1/article.BLp.GBi_PM_NAMA.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/57100/7/57100-Content%20analysis%20of%20the%20existence%20of%20biomimicry%20life%27s%20principles%20in%20green%20building%20index%20Malaysia_SCOPUS.pdf Mohd Ariffin, Noor Aziah and Gad, Salwa Farag (2017) Content analysis of the existence of biomimicry life’s principles in green building index Malaysia. Planning Malaysia: Journal of the Malaysian Institute of Planners, 15 (1). pp. 179-190. ISSN 1675-6215 E-ISSN 0128-0945 http://www.planningmalaysia.org/index.php/pmj/article/view/233/213 10.21837/pmjournal.v15.i6.233
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description	Concerns about climate change and global warming have led many countries to initiate energy rating systems in the planning and development of the built environment. Although useful and novel, this paper contends that these ratings are only remedying and alleviating whatever negative impacts that development creates. Energy ratings are seemingly lacking in attempts to integrate and enhance the physical development of the natural environment. Instead, Biomimicry is a discipline that explores nature and tries to understand its bio-integration for the establishment of sustainable products, processes and systems. This paper postulates that with the integration of Biomimicry – Life’s Principles (BLP) into the Green Building Index (GBI) Malaysia, a higher level of environmental sustainability could be achieved. This paper attempted to explore the presence and the extent of the presence of BLP in the existing GBI utilizing the content analysis method. This article concludes that although the presence of BLP in the GBI is high, the extent of the presence is low. The paper also recommends the areas of concern that could be improved within the GBI for a more effective rating system. Keywords: Green Building Index (GBI); Biomimicry - Life’s Principles (BLP); content analysis; presence; extent of presence
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author	Mohd Ariffin, Noor Aziah Gad, Salwa Farag
author_facet	Mohd Ariffin, Noor Aziah Gad, Salwa Farag
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title	Content analysis of the existence of biomimicry life’s principles in green building index Malaysia
title_short	Content analysis of the existence of biomimicry life’s principles in green building index Malaysia
title_full	Content analysis of the existence of biomimicry life’s principles in green building index Malaysia
title_fullStr	Content analysis of the existence of biomimicry life’s principles in green building index Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	Content analysis of the existence of biomimicry life’s principles in green building index Malaysia
title_sort	content analysis of the existence of biomimicry life’s principles in green building index malaysia
publisher	Malaysian Institute of Planners
publishDate	2017
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/57100/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/57100/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/57100/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/57100/1/article.BLp.GBi_PM_NAMA.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/57100/7/57100-Content%20analysis%20of%20the%20existence%20of%20biomimicry%20life%27s%20principles%20in%20green%20building%20index%20Malaysia_SCOPUS.pdf
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Content analysis of the existence of biomimicry life’s principles in green building index Malaysia

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