The implementation of green elements in hospital building

Sustainable construction has taken on some new steps to stimulate green building practice. Green hospital is a sustainable building that throughout its life has minimal impacts on environment. Green building elements basis are site planning and design, community, indoor air quality, energy efficiency, materials, waste management, water use and marketability. In Malaysia, level of awareness about green hospital is still low and they have minimum understanding on green elements and sustainable design. On the other hand, hospital building is one of the sectors that contributes to the highest percentage of carbon dioxide and chemical waste to the atmosphere. By implementing green elements in hospital building, it can reduce the negative impact toward environment. Therefore, this study aims to identify the green elements necessary in hospital building in order to ensure the sustainability of hospital building. Three objectives have been set which are: (i) to identify the green elements that necessary in hospital building, (ii) to determine the challenges in adopting green formation in hospital building, (iii) to suggest few strategies overcome the problems faced in implementing the green hospital. The analysis use for this study is descriptive research design by using quantitative method.