Malaysian Carbon Reduction and Environmental Sustainability Tools (MyCREST)

This course is designed to understand the overall assessment of sustainability and carbon management based on overall life cycle assessment. The aim is to attain knowledge of green building techniques, materials and practices. Besides, the students are able to identify the embodied energy evaluation, and overall sustainability of various materials and methods based on basic methods of green building design, technique, documentation and certification. At the end of the course, students will be given one real project in experiencing the national green rating systems to register, evaluate and document an actual green building project.

1. Module 1: Introduction to Sustainability, Green Building & Introduction to MyCREST 2. Module 2: Pre-design (PD), Social and Cultural Sustainability (SC) 3. Module 3: Infrastructure and Sequestration (IS) 4. Module 4.1: Demolition and Disposal (DP) 5. Module 4.2: Waste Management and Reduction (WM) 6. Module 5: Facility Management (FM) 7. Module 6: Water Efficiency (WE) 8. Module 7: Energy Performance Impact (EP) 9. Module 8: Occupant and Health (OH) 10. Module 9: Lowering Embodied Carbon (EC), & Sustainable Carbon Initiatives (IN)