The contribution of ecological design to green planning approach of a university campus in Malaysia

The concept of ecological design has produced positive results in terms of supporting the achievement of sustainable development in many fields. However, its practice currently faces many challenges due to many influential factors such as the low level of acceptance amongst stakeholders. As such, th...

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Main Authors: Asmawi, M. Zainora, Abdul Aziz, Abdul Razak
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/7701/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/7701/1/IRIIE_2011_poster_zainora_razak.pdf
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spelling iium-77012013-07-01T08:56:58Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/7701/ The contribution of ecological design to green planning approach of a university campus in Malaysia Asmawi, M. Zainora Abdul Aziz, Abdul Razak G Geography (General) QK Botany The concept of ecological design has produced positive results in terms of supporting the achievement of sustainable development in many fields. However, its practice currently faces many challenges due to many influential factors such as the low level of acceptance amongst stakeholders. As such, this research attempts to study the application of ecological design in contributing to the approach of green planning in designing a university campus in Serdang, Selangor. The researcher had made an observation survey of 23 selected buildings within the Universiti Putra Malaysia area, based on a set of pre-determined factors and its sub-factors in determining the level of compliance to ecological design. Generally, the results demonstrated that the level was relatively moderate and many buildings failed to comply with some factors of ecological design. The reason being that the buildings were built more than 10 years ago in which the concept of ecological design was rather new at that time. Some newer buildings corresponded fairly well to some ecological design, such as the elements of indoor environmental quality. 2011-01 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/7701/1/IRIIE_2011_poster_zainora_razak.pdf Asmawi, M. Zainora and Abdul Aziz, Abdul Razak (2011) The contribution of ecological design to green planning approach of a university campus in Malaysia. In: IIUM Research, Innovation & Invention Exhibition (IRIIE 2011), January 2011, Kuala Lumpur. (Unpublished)
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Asmawi, M. Zainora
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The contribution of ecological design to green planning approach of a university campus in Malaysia
description The concept of ecological design has produced positive results in terms of supporting the achievement of sustainable development in many fields. However, its practice currently faces many challenges due to many influential factors such as the low level of acceptance amongst stakeholders. As such, this research attempts to study the application of ecological design in contributing to the approach of green planning in designing a university campus in Serdang, Selangor. The researcher had made an observation survey of 23 selected buildings within the Universiti Putra Malaysia area, based on a set of pre-determined factors and its sub-factors in determining the level of compliance to ecological design. Generally, the results demonstrated that the level was relatively moderate and many buildings failed to comply with some factors of ecological design. The reason being that the buildings were built more than 10 years ago in which the concept of ecological design was rather new at that time. Some newer buildings corresponded fairly well to some ecological design, such as the elements of indoor environmental quality.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Asmawi, M. Zainora
Abdul Aziz, Abdul Razak
author_facet Asmawi, M. Zainora
Abdul Aziz, Abdul Razak
author_sort Asmawi, M. Zainora
title The contribution of ecological design to green planning approach of a university campus in Malaysia
title_short The contribution of ecological design to green planning approach of a university campus in Malaysia
title_full The contribution of ecological design to green planning approach of a university campus in Malaysia
title_fullStr The contribution of ecological design to green planning approach of a university campus in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed The contribution of ecological design to green planning approach of a university campus in Malaysia
title_sort contribution of ecological design to green planning approach of a university campus in malaysia
publishDate 2011
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/7701/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/7701/1/IRIIE_2011_poster_zainora_razak.pdf
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