The topics of green and sustainability
are high on the list for building product
manufacturers who are constantly
trying to determine the best ways to get
their products found, chosen and used.
BY WORD SCRIPTER
Sentral; newly completed
Nu Tower 1 and 2, which
houses MRCB’s Headquarters.
This goes on for the
new integrated lifestyle
retail mall, NU Sentral;
Malaysia’s largest and
busiest transport hub,
Stesen Sentral Kuala Lumpur; the Plaza Sentral and
1 Sentral office towers;
the lifestyle centre Sooka
Sentral and Menara Shell
another two award-winning Green buildings, as
well the company’s Plaza
Alam Sentral retail property in Shah Alam retail
property.
As a responsible corporate citizen, MRCB is
committed to the effort
to help create awareness
on global warming. Earth
Hour is one of the ways
this commitment is ex-
pressed by MRCB, a property developer that has
taken the extra mile by
being more pro-active in
incorporating sustainable
elements in all its property development project.
US-based Leadership in
Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), Singapore’s BCA Green Mark
and Malaysia’s Green
Building Index (GBI) for
all its new projects that
include NU Sentral, Nu
This contribution from MRCB would
hopefully create a new consciousness
among Malaysians as well as the property
development players in the industry to
work towards a more sustainable means of
lifestyle, in an effort to address the climate
change issues
MRCB has incorporated green building requirements in projects at
the Kuala Lumpur Sentral
CBD development, utilizing international green
building
certification
standards, notably, the
Tower 1 and 2, Platinum
Sentral and Menara Shell.
MRCB also encourages its employees to take
part in Earth Hour on a
personal level by spreading the message to their
friends, relatives and
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families to sign up and
participate in this global
effort.
In compliance to sustainable
development,
MRCB has been actively
involved in river, beach
and coastline rehabilitation projects. The MRCB
Group
environmental
rehabilitation and preservation projects include
the Sungai Perai in Pulau
Pinang and Kuala Sungai
Pahang and Sungai Kuantan in Pahang Darul Makmur.
MRCB was also awarded with an iconic and
first ever project in Malaysia to install high voltage overhead electricity
transmission line crossing over a stretch of sea in
the Straits of Melaka from
Pantai Siring to Pulau Besar in Melaka.