COMPULSARY
RATING..Construction Industry Development Board Malaysia (CIDB) will
soon introduce a Green PASS rating to contractors and developers in the
country.
KUALA
LUMPUR - Construction Industry Development Board Malaysia (CIDB) will
soon introduce a Green PASS rating to contractors and developers in the
country.
"Green
PASS is an assessment that measures the actual impact of the quantity
of greenhouse gas (GHG) by released by building to the environment.
"This evaluation will be done in two phases: construction phase and operational phase of the building.
"For
the construction phase it contains five elements, namely assessment of
the construction site, building materials, energy, water and waste.
"As
for the operational phase of building the three elements that are
assessed include building indoor environmental quality (IEQ), energy and
water," she said.
Esmaria
said this when presenting a paperwork on Green Pass evaluation to over
80 leading local construction industry in the capital recently.
However,
she said, for the Green PASS evaluation in the construction phase, the
evaluation can only be done once while in the building operation phase,
the assessment will be done after the building is completed and occupied
by at least 70 percent of the residents.
"Green
PASS Rating will be the yardstick used to measure the ability of
contractors to produce quality construction," she told the National
Construction Portal, 1BINA.my.
It
is learned that the database of Green PASS evaluation is borrowed from
the United Kingdom which acts as a baseline to measure the conservation
of buildings that is under construction or already completed.
Even so, Emasria says that Malaysia will build its own database as it is a dynamic data collection and not rigid.
"For
example, if the study found that current energy consumption baseline is
100 kilowatt per meter and found the building in Green PASS assessment
process uses only 70 kilowatts per meter which is a saving of 30 percent
sure this data will be stored as a reference at any time.
"This
is because the saving was calculated using carbon calculator and will
be monitored from time to time for record and reference," she said.
Emasria
also added that, in that particular case, contractors and developers
are eligible for a diamond bonus in scoring if they uses Quality
Assessment System in Construction (QLASSIC) and Safety and Health
Assessment System in Construction (SHASSIC) for their construction
projects.
In
the meantime, CIDB previously issued the Construction Industry Standard
CIS 19:2012 Draft and requested the public to provide feedback on the
Green Performance Assessment System in Construction (Green PASS) draft.
By
July, CIDB will work with the Malaysian Green Tech Corporation (MGTC)
and several government agencies to test the effectiveness of the Green
PASS assessment to construction projects in Malaysia through a pilot
project that has been agreed.
Report of the National Construction Portal, 1BINA on Green PASS can be found in http://www.1bina.my/blog/2011/12/01/konsep-bangunan-hijau-sahut-polisi-kerajaan and http://1bina.my/ blog/2012/01/16/draf-cis-19-2012-untuk-komen-umum
-- 1BINA.my
1 comment:
YES, it should be Compulsary Rating! is it with SIRIM recognition?
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