Towards a sustainable built environment in Malaysia
By: editors, Mahyuddin Ramli, Hugh Byrd
Contributors: Universiti Sains Malaysia
Series: Academic imprint series / Penerbit USM
Publisher: Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia; Distributors, Universiti Sains Malaysia Cooperative Bookshop; MPH Distributors
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [Glugor], Pulau Pinang
Language: may
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9789838615440
Subjects: Sustainable development; Urbanization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Energy, climate change, and the built environment, Malaysia / Hugh Byrd; title: Landscape architecture and the issue of sustainability in the built environment / Jamel Ariffin; title: Recycling scrap tyres into engineering and construction materials / Abd. Naser Abd. Ghani; title: Sustainability in the practice of historic building conservation / A. Ghafar Ahmad; title: Ferrocement technology for sustainable engineering construction / Mahyuddin Ramli; title: Sustainable construction, issues in the Malaysian construction industry / Nazirah Zainul Abidin; title: Planning for sustainable housing development / Abdul Ghani Salleh; title: Planning for a sustainable retail environment in Malaysia / Nurwati Badarulzaman; title: Future design in an energy efficient building as an identity of a Malaysian tropical architecture / Abdul Malek Abdul Rahman; title: Sustainable design, learning from the traditional Malay architecture / Zulkifli Hanafi; title: Sustainability in tourism, ecotourism development issues in Malaysia / Ahmad Puad Mat Som.