Low Carbon Green Building Skills Requirements for Existing Buildings

Abstract

Malaysia bid for transition to low carbon cities and greener economy may be severely compromised without adequate green skills to keep pace with it. Based on an online survey of 132 respondents from 45 registered companies under Malaysian Green Building Confederation (MGBC), this study adopts Kendall’s rank correlation to assess the degree of agreement or concordance among the expert on the significance of some identified low carbon skills requirement for existing buildings. Our findings reveal strong degree of concordance as there were high relationship among the low carbon skills considered, especially on the ability of to integrate passive and active low carbon design, use of computer simulation software for prediction of energy and accounting of carbon dioxide emissions. Also, the mean score values on the low carbon skills show that all were considered important by the respondents.