Urging Green Retrofits of Building Façades in the Tropics: A Review and Research Agenda
Green building development creates many opportunities for meeting the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, most green buildings are new builds rather than retrofitted existing buildings. This may become an impediment for green development progress, as the issues of defo...
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| author | Wan-Thing Hong Kamaruddin Ibrahim Siaw-Chuing Loo |
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development creates many opportunities for meeting the United Nation’s
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, most green buildings are new
builds rather than retrofitted existing buildings. This may become an
impediment for green development progress, as the issues of deforestation and
land preservation remain unresolved. Green retrofitting of building façades is
one of the most effective passive design strategies and permits perennial
benefits for building energy performance, cost savings, and positive
environmental impacts. There are a wide range of façade retrofit technologies
readily available on the market at relatively low cost that require little
installation time and yet can achieve similar energy performance levels as new
green buildings. Notwithstanding these advantages, the uptake rates for these
are moderately low. The challenges to widely implementing façade retrofitting
of Malaysian office buildings are foreseen as holistic and include not just
engineering and construction activities, but also social, economic,
environmental, and governmental support. This paper aims to review the focus
and direction of green development in the Malaysian construction industry and
subsequently propose a research agenda for the rapid adoption of green façade
retrofitting for local office buildings. The research agenda will
commence with a survey on key factors that impede the uptake of green façade
retrofitting, and then conducts energy simulations for contemporary green
facade technologies (GFTs) using Building Information Modelling (BIM) software.
It finally develops a decision-making tool for GFT selection based on simulated
energy performance data and the key factors associated with building owners’
considerations and expectations of façade retrofitting. The final research
output is expected to act as a catalyst to spur green development progress by
identifying the real issues faced by the prevailing construction industry. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-dd10aee2cb184585b80a016190d785f72023-01-03T01:02:26ZengUniversitas IndonesiaInternational Journal of Technology2086-96142087-21002019-11-011061140114910.14716/ijtech.v10i6.36273627Urging Green Retrofits of Building Façades in the Tropics: A Review and Research AgendaWan-Thing Hong0Kamaruddin Ibrahim1Siaw-Chuing Loo2Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Building Design, School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society, Heriot-Watt University Malaysia, 62200 Putrajaya, MalaysiaCentre of Excellence for Sustainable Building Design, School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society, Heriot-Watt University Malaysia, 62200 Putrajaya, MalaysiaCentre of Building, Construction and Tropical Architecture, Faculty of Built Environment, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaGreen building development creates many opportunities for meeting the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, most green buildings are new builds rather than retrofitted existing buildings. This may become an impediment for green development progress, as the issues of deforestation and land preservation remain unresolved. Green retrofitting of building façades is one of the most effective passive design strategies and permits perennial benefits for building energy performance, cost savings, and positive environmental impacts. There are a wide range of façade retrofit technologies readily available on the market at relatively low cost that require little installation time and yet can achieve similar energy performance levels as new green buildings. Notwithstanding these advantages, the uptake rates for these are moderately low. The challenges to widely implementing façade retrofitting of Malaysian office buildings are foreseen as holistic and include not just engineering and construction activities, but also social, economic, environmental, and governmental support. This paper aims to review the focus and direction of green development in the Malaysian construction industry and subsequently propose a research agenda for the rapid adoption of green façade retrofitting for local office buildings. The research agenda will commence with a survey on key factors that impede the uptake of green façade retrofitting, and then conducts energy simulations for contemporary green facade technologies (GFTs) using Building Information Modelling (BIM) software. It finally develops a decision-making tool for GFT selection based on simulated energy performance data and the key factors associated with building owners’ considerations and expectations of façade retrofitting. The final research output is expected to act as a catalyst to spur green development progress by identifying the real issues faced by the prevailing construction industry.http://ijtech.eng.ui.ac.id/article/view/3627building facadedecision-makingenergy savinggreen retrofitsimulation |
| spellingShingle | Wan-Thing Hong Kamaruddin Ibrahim Siaw-Chuing Loo Urging Green Retrofits of Building Façades in the Tropics: A Review and Research Agenda International Journal of Technology building facade decision-making energy saving green retrofit simulation |
| title | Urging Green Retrofits of Building Façades in the Tropics: A Review and Research Agenda |
| title_full | Urging Green Retrofits of Building Façades in the Tropics: A Review and Research Agenda |
| title_fullStr | Urging Green Retrofits of Building Façades in the Tropics: A Review and Research Agenda |
| title_full_unstemmed | Urging Green Retrofits of Building Façades in the Tropics: A Review and Research Agenda |
| title_short | Urging Green Retrofits of Building Façades in the Tropics: A Review and Research Agenda |
| title_sort | urging green retrofits of building facades in the tropics a review and research agenda |
| topic | building facade decision-making energy saving green retrofit simulation |
| url | http://ijtech.eng.ui.ac.id/article/view/3627 |
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