Challenges in developing green office building from developers's perspective

Nowadays, construction industry in Malaysia play important role in development of building with many design, construction methods, and material used in construction. However, our country is facing climate changes and security of energy which this issue require more cost in energy used. To solve this issue, green office building is the solution where this building can reduce the negative impact to the environment and give better health to the human and promote sustainable life. To achieve green building, there are systems called green rating tools that used to measure and evaluate the building. In Malaysia, the rating system used is Green Building Index (GBI). However, due to cost of green building is higher for up-front, lack of knowledge and expertise, and lack of awareness among client, consultant and contractor become the development of green building slowed. Hence, this paper proposed to study the challenges in developing green office building from developer's perspectives. The study was conducted using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) software version 25 with quantitative method to analyse. A total of 90 respondents from developers in Selangor involved in the process. The result from SPSS show the majority of the respondents describe the most of challenging factors in developing green office building are lack of demand, followed by lack of awareness, and lack of database and information.