Green Roof: Its Awareness Among Professionals and Potential in Malaysian Market

Rahman, Syumi Rafida Abdul; Ahmad, Hamidah; Rosley, Muhamad Solehin Fitry

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.08.373

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“…In contrast with the study by Rahman et al (2013), green roof in Malaysia is increasingly common but most of the green roof are not for urban farming. In fact, the urban dwellers prefer aesthetical garden than urban farming.…”

Section: The Rooftop Urban Farming: the Malaysian Contextmentioning

confidence: 68%

Green Roof Concept Analysis: A Comparative Study of Urban Farming Practice in Cities

Hussain¹,

Hashim²,

Ismail³

2020

MySE

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The emergence of urban farming mainly for food production is one initiative in developing a sustainable environment. This paper presents a brief conceptual review of the ideas, issues and imperatives in implementing urban farming on the rooftop areas. The concern is to investigate an alternative way for urban dwellers to achieve resilience through urban farming -the review is based on the theoretical background and concepts of the relevant constraints taken from various established references. The method adopts comparatives analysis explicitly through established texts and secondary data taken from previous cases. The significant examples include; (i) green roof as rooftop farming in ensuring food security and reduce carbon footprint in Singapore; (ii) urban farming as a culture in emphasizing the domestic food production and consumption in Japan; (iii) rooftop urban farming in fresh urban food production in USA; and (iv) rooftop is effective as edible landscape and not only serve for visual purpose only in Thailand. These cases will lead to localize the concept of rooftop urban farming. There also will be a strategy for the greening of the cities by intensifying urban farming. This paper envisions to extend and establish the conceptual discourse for implementing urban farming on the rooftop areas in Malaysia.

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Section: The Rooftop Urban Farming: the Malaysian Contextmentioning

confidence: 68%

Green Roof Concept Analysis: A Comparative Study of Urban Farming Practice in Cities

Hussain¹,

Hashim²,

Ismail³

2020

MySE

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“…Essentially, green roofs can be divided into two distinct types: extensive or intensive (Hui, 2010;Abdul Rahman et al, 2013;Abdul Rahman et al, 2015;Silva et al, 2015;Jim, 2017). As shown in Figure 1, an extensive green roof is thinner, simpler and a lighter kind of roof, which it is normally suitable for lightweight buildings.…”

Section: Types Of Green Roof: Extensive and Intensivementioning

confidence: 99%

“…This means an extensive green roof is cheaper and easier to build and maintain than an intensive one. This type of green roof is rarely accessible to the public, most of the time only being accessible for maintenance purposes (Abdul Rahman et al, 2013). (Getter & Rowe, 2006) Intensive green roofs, also known as roof gardens, are heavier and strong enough to support an additional load, and are suitable for underground garages and heavy buildings, as shown in Figure 1.…”

Section: Types Of Green Roof: Extensive and Intensivementioning

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“…(Getter & Rowe, 2006) Intensive green roofs, also known as roof gardens, are heavier and strong enough to support an additional load, and are suitable for underground garages and heavy buildings, as shown in Figure 1. Therefore, as they are generally heavy, the system requires specific support from the building (Abdul Rahman et al, 2013). Moreover, they require a deeper substrate of a minimum depth of 15 cm, and can support a variety of vegetation including trees, big shrubs, bushes and many species of ornamental plants.…”

Section: Types Of Green Roof: Extensive and Intensivementioning

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Review of Significant Maintenance Criteria for Tropical Green Roofs in Malaysia

Shaharuddin¹,

Khalil²,

Saleh³

2019

IJTech

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The implementation of green roofs on the top of buildings is becoming a trend in urban cities as they provide numerous benefits for green development growth. In Malaysia, numerous approaches towards sustainable development have been adopted in order to overcome crucial environmental issues such as urban heat islands, air pollution and lack of green spaces. One of the sustainable approaches that helps to minimize such problems is the use of vegetation or plant material on rooftops, also known as green roofs. Among the benefits of implementing green roofs or buildings are reducing heat flux, optimizing energy efficiency, and improving storm water management. Despite the benefits of green roof installation, the maintenance consideration is still largely unexplored and is a significant factor in the viability of green roof installation. Therefore, this paper aims to identify the significant criteria for green roof maintenance practice in Malaysia, as an added value to the existing practice that has previously been more concerned with design and benefit considerations. The literature findings reveal that there are generally 20 criteria related to such maintenance. Out of these, six are identified as the most significant factors in the best practice of green roof maintenance, being appropriate and important for the Malaysian tropical climate. The findings can serve as added value to existing practice, which has previously been more concerned with design and benefit. Therefore, they will also help to improve current green roof maintenance undertaken by building operators and maintenance managers.

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“…However, Kuala Lumpur has been implementing green roofs and green facades in the contemporary modern high-rise design and has made it a recent trend in the urban areas [12], [13]. Meanwhile, the common type of green roof implemented in Malaysia is the intensive green roof as compared to the extensive one [14]. This is due to the limited plant selection for the extensive green roof compared to the intensive one, which lower its aesthetic value.…”

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Assessing Practice and Criteria for Green Roof Maintenance on High-rise Residential Building in Malaysia

2019

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Urbanisation inevitably shows a positive sign in increasing the economic reputation of a country. Nevertheless, it has led to several problems including the deficit in green spaces and destruction of the natural environment, therefore green building is introduced as an alternative to overcome crucial environmental issues. Numerous approaches were also adopted to reduce other environmental issues such as urban heat island, air pollution and lack of green spaces. One of the sustainable approaches that help to minimise the environmental problems is by using the means of vegetation or plant material on rooftops or also known as the green roof. The implementation of the green roof on top of buildings is becoming a trend in the urban cities as it provides numerous benefits to the green development. The green roof is also part of criteria in green building and among the benefits, implementing green roofs will reduce heat flux, optimise energy efficiency and improve stormwater management. However, despite the benefits, enhancement on the green roof installation and maintenance consideration are two factors which are still largely unexplored as the main significant factor in the viability of the green roof installation. Hence, this paper is aimed to determine the vital criteria of maintenance and its ranking towards the establishment of best practice maintenance for the green roof, by focusing on high-rise residential. Questionnaires were distributed by email and through an online survey to 30 maintenance managers of green roof of high-rise residential in Kuala Lumpur and the samples are drawn by using purposive sampling technique. The results showed that the most significant maintenance criteria of the green roof are drainage, followed by waterproofing, irrigation, water retention, and roof slab. The outcome of this study has provided a significant contribution to the current maintenance practice of green roof by prioritising the criteria of maintenance and key address of green roof, where it may help to standardise the maintenance practice of the green roof in the tropical climate of Malaysia.

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Green Roof: Its Awareness Among Professionals and Potential in Malaysian Market

Cited by 36 publications

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Green Roof Concept Analysis: A Comparative Study of Urban Farming Practice in Cities

Green Roof Concept Analysis: A Comparative Study of Urban Farming Practice in Cities

Review of Significant Maintenance Criteria for Tropical Green Roofs in Malaysia

Assessing Practice and Criteria for Green Roof Maintenance on High-rise Residential Building in Malaysia

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