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CONCLUSION
The Government has initiated various ways to promote substantial implementation of green and sustainable construction in Malaysia through robust national plans over the years. It has even shifted its main emphasis from the conventional and costly‘ grow first, clean-up later’ approach to a greener course of“ Green Growth” in the most recent Malaysia Plan to ensure that most of the projects procured are environmentally sustainable. In line with the national agenda, several sustainable construction-related initiatives have been made available“ by the industry and for the industry” such as the GBI for green buildings. The Government has also strategized its ambition to transform the Malaysian construction industry use of modern and sustainable methods of construction through a number of sustainable and green programmes such as the IBS Roadmap and National Green Technology Policy( NGTP) to ensure an effective and efficient delivery of the Malaysia Plans.
The construction industry in Malaysia is expected to undergo a full transformation from a conventional into a modern, highly productive and sustainable industry by 2020 under the Construction Industry Transformation Programme( CITP) blueprint. The CITP blueprint, which forms part of the 11 th Malaysia Plan( 2016 – 2020), comprises of 18 initiatives from four key strategic thrusts: quality, safety and professionalism; environmental sustainability; productivity; and internalisation. Besides ensuring the Malaysian construction industry becomes a low carbon, sustainable building and infrastructure model country especially to ASEAN counterparts, the CITP blueprint also looks into initiatives that are able to inspire faster adoption of the IBS construction techniques through the establishment of appropriate economic mechanisms and modern practices.
The importance of sustainable construction and environmental sustainability has been systematically developed, addressed and documented not only in the 11 th Malaysia Plan but also in the CITP. Based on the initiatives developed that are fully supported by various stages of goals and a comprehensive governance structure, the aim of transforming construction in Malaysia seems feasible and achievable by MAMPAN. Now it is the responsibility of Government implementing agencies and industry practitioners to put them into the real practice by overcoming all the key issues and challenges.
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