Abstract

The progressive growth off building stocks over a period should not be ignored, because the implications have already affected the environment, economy and social aspect of the sustainable goal. Today, people, building, organisations and environment affected demands a holistic changes and improvement that need to be taken seriously. Adoption of sustainable practices in existing buildings specifically building owned by the government is a sign of sustainable commitment being practised and cultivates the appropriate approach. Such implementation should enhance the performance of local authority role and the existing building performance. This study discovered the area of concern that can enhance the sustainable practices implementation in local authority existing building. Data collected through interview (semi-structured) interviewed with 10 participants ranging from building managers, officers or senior officers. The result was generate using content analysis method. 16 sustainability Initiatives were discovered which demonstrate some significant effort from local authorities in managing their existing building. However, the effort still lacking to lead in becoming a role model towards sustainability. These organisation required more improvement and additional adoption to lead in sustainable practices. Hence, measuring the effectiveness of the practices should be explore including developing a model as guidance for this organisations to adopt towards becoming sustainable champion.

Highlights

  • Sustainability has been broadly discussed and highlighted as one of the world agenda in shaping the future needs

  • Discussion & Conclusion The findings indicate that sustainable practices already implemented in these eight (8) local authorities

  • This study recommended that the government and mainly local authorities to instil indepth knowledge of global condition and its associated to sustainability practices

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Introduction

Sustainability has been broadly discussed and highlighted as one of the world agenda in shaping the future needs. This issue was debated, discussed and reported worldwide to instill the thinking and adoption of sustainability in daily life and yet broaden the concept to the business, country and worldwide application. The sustainability agenda become more significant due to global issues that affect the whole world currently and affected the future (Forum,2014). Existing buildings contributed to the issues relating to sustainable agenda. The building sector reported to contributes up to 45% of global annual greenhouse gas emissions (Wu & Low, 2010) and need to be addressed properly mainly by local authorities. The study focuses on the perspective of the building managers and officers of the local authorities building

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