GREEN BUILDING

Towards a Greener Campus

A PRESENTATION

Ar. Sharifah Noor Nazim Syed Yahya

Musa Mohd Amin

Universiti Malaya, Kuala lumpur

What green…..?

Green Living
Environmental friendly
Sustainable
Eco-friendly
1. Climate Change
Humans responsible for rising temps in Arctic and Antarctic
West Greenland glaciers melting 100 times faster at their end points
1m rise in sea level would flood 6% of the Netherlands and 17.5% of Bangladesh 2001

Droughts and floods lead to migrations in Somalia

Reclaiming land for seven safe islands in the Maldives

Two uninhabited Kiribati Islands, Tebua Tarawa and Abanuea, disappeared

Global warming could displace as many as 1b people by 2050

Global warming will become a “threat multiplier for instability”

Global warming will cause great human suffering on the level of nuclear war
1. INTRODUCTION

Climate Change

• The Earth's climate has significant impact to our daily life system.
• It determines the way we live on this planet.
• The way we live today is inadvertently changing the climate in an unfavorable way.

Long-term climate changes have been observed across the globe;

 global temperature increase: +0.75̊C over the past century; 2000-2009 the
warmest decade on record
 rainfall patterns: wet regions of the world are getting wetter, dry regions
getting drier
 humidity: increases over the last two to three decades make extreme rainfall
and flooding more likely
 warming oceans: temperature increases in the last 50 years in the oceans
are not linked to natural variations
 sea-ice: summer Arctic sea-ice is declining by 600,000 km² per decade (the
area of Madagascar)
(source: IPCC)
 changes are happening as a result of human activity, including man-made greenhouse
gas emissions (source: IPCC)
Burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas for energy, for;

 heating / cooling homes and buildings

 growing, transporting and cooking food
 travelling (by car, plane, bus and train)
 treating water to make it drinkable
 manufacturing, using and transporting products

Deforestation; forests are cut down faster than they are replaced:

 causes 5.9 billion tones of CO² per year

 accounts for 20 % of the world’s carbon emissions
 fewer trees are left to absorb CO²
 the agriculture and industry that replace the forests

Growing world population:

 more people who need food, livestock and energy

 produce more waste
 use more natural resources
 leads to more emissions
 our climate is
CHANGING

melting glaciers famine deforestation oil spills

CO²
tsunami poverty water pollution forest fire
floods

( and we are the ones to blame.......)

 Climate Change; The World in Crisis

 if emissions continue to grow at present rates,

CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is likely to reach
twice by around 2050

 unless we limit emissions, global temperature could rise

as much as 7 °C

 push many of the world’s great ecosystems (coral reefs

and rainforests) to irreversible decline

 even if global temperatures rise by only 2 °C, 20–30%

of species could face extinction

 expect to see serious effects on our environment, food

and water supplies, and health

since the Industrial Revolution, the amount of CO2 has

increased by 35 per cent; concentration of CO2 is now higher
than at any point in the past 650,000 years

Source: MET office UK

Another Climate Model from MIT suggested……

the environment is past the tipping point, and that the human population will collapsed by 80%
by 2100.

that global warming is likely to be twice as severe as previously thought.

these kinds of temperature changes mean the catastrophic collapse of planetary ecosystems, and
the total breakdown of current social and economic structures.

“There is significantly more risk than we previously estimated. This increases

the urgency for significant policy action. There’s no way the world can or
should take these risks.”

Ronald Prinn, the co-director of the MIT’s Centre for Global Change Science program.
 Failure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will
lead to the acceleration of climate change……….
The Built Environment
Can we maintain and improve life quality whilst radically improving the effectiveness in how we use all
our resources, and reducing pollution and waste?

Kuala Lumpur Tokyo

Manhattan Shanghai
The Facts & Challenges

The built environment presents us with a major challenge. It is considered

the most environmental unfriendly human activity because it consumes
large amounts of natural resources and produces a great deal of pollutants.

40% 40% 16% 35%

materials energy water landfill
waste

Reducing the Footprints of Built Environment

The Facts & Challenges
 Failure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will
lead to the acceleration of climate change……….
2. The way forward
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Sustainable lifestyles

Support home grown food

Alternative fuel

Save energy

Buy local products

Stop open burning

Green building
 SUSTAINABILITY
is not just about saving the whales…,

is not just about planting more trees…,

is not just about protecting the orang utans…,

sustainable LIVING...
environmentally friendly energy-efficient
life-sustaining safe & healthy
SUSTAINABILITY
…creating the balance

Economy

Social Environment

“ meeting the needs of the present without compromising

the ability of future generations to meet their own needs ”
Sustainability Leadership
Colleges and Universities;

 holds an important position - in a unique position to address sustainability issues

 educates future generations of professionals provides the essential knowledge that
will future architects, engineers, policy makers, community activists, industrialists,
individuals
 possess the intellectual capacity and resources to effectively integrate educational
initiatives into their daily operations.

Green Sustainable Colleges and Universities;

/

Higher institutions that addresses, involves and promotes, on a regional and

global level, the minimization of negative environmental, economic, societal, and
health effects generated in the use of their resources in order to fulfill its function
of teaching, research, outreach and partnership and stewardship in ways to help
society make transition to sustainable lifestyles
Sustainability Leadership

Responsibilities towards a sustainable future:

1 center for change, innovation and progress

2 minimize environmental impacts on physical operations

3 serve as a role model for the community

4 build student capacity for critical thinking and problem solving

5 build stronger partnership with government, NGOs and industry

For an institution to be sustainable it requires conservation and enhancement of

its resources base, covering not only economic growth but also social and cultural
development
The primary functions of the Sustainable Campus Unit are to:

1 Initiate, support, coordinate, and evaluate campus operational and academic issues related
to sustainability;

2
work with key campus administrators on sustainability issues;

3
advise and collaborate with operational units to implement sustainability best practices;

4
act as advocate, clearing house, and coordinator for academic initiatives, research projects,
etc.; and

5
participate in strategic planning with top-level administrators to infuse sustainability focus
into operations, academics, building, and land-use for the campus.
Core areas of sustainability

 the GCI describes the broad campus commitment to sustainability in four core areas
 addresses the impacts of campus activities
 defines UM’s mission on campus sustainability
 establish a structure to identify and achieve continuous improvement

Sustainability Indicators

Resource Conservation Health and Well-Being

Energy Living Quality
Water Food
Waste and Recycling General Health and Well-Being

Campus Infrastructure Academics and Culture

Built Environment Environmental Awareness
Transportation Courses & Research
Land Use Green Groups & Organizations
Supplies and Equipment Campus Leadership
Conserve Energy
Save Water
Design Green
Reduce Emissions
Minimize Waste
Learn Sustainability
……making it mainstream
South Western Institute of TAFE
Nokia China Campus
Otemae University, Japan
Building at the University of Toronto's Mississauga Campus
Nanyang Institute of Technology, Singapore
“We always overestimate the cost of going green and underestimate the
negative impact by not doing so”

value
Conclusions

The challenges and a way forward

Realities:
• lack of knowledge
• lack of awareness
• competing agendas
• limited budgets
• lack of support staff

 multi disciplinary & overlapping subjects

 sustainability on campus - asking people to change paradigms
 balance and appropriate strategy need to be identified beforehand to ensure
successful outcomes
 commitment and increasing willingness to adopt sustainable measures into our
operation and practices
 will be environmentally, socially and financially beneficial to all
 University campuses to serve as a model to the community who are striving for
sustainability.
 Sustainability, becoming a societal norm, must be led and promoted by institutions of
higher education.
SUSTAINABILITY

Real investment for our children………

Our future’s life insurance……..
The world we live now is belong to our children, we borrow from
them untill we die…

WITH FUTURE YOU WANT TO

GIVE TO YOUR CHILDREN….
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