Electricity worth RM3b a year going to waste, so, what's ur suggestions?
Reading about the fact that electricity worth RM3b a year going to waste do not surprised me at all. I don't need an academician, especially from aUSM's school of Housing, Building and Planning, to tell me about this fact. It's a foregone conclusion, seeing all the western design adopted at most Malaysian buildings! In the tropics, flat roofs of buildings do not really work well against rain, the glass facade induces green-house effects in most buildings, and too tall buildings needs lifts which requires more energy to maintain!
What I really need from people like Dr Mohd Zin Kandar, is a proposed alternative design for Malaysian buildings and homes, to ensure that there will be no more of the present status-quo. A design that should be able to harness the lighting from the sun in a tropical nation like ours with enough ventilation and proper climate control system to ensure comfort for occupants should have been proposed and adopted instead. Come on, where is the God-d*mned design?
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The Star Online > Nation
Tuesday October 4, 2005
Electricity worth RM3b a year going to waste
KUALA LUMPUR: Poor design and management of commercial buildings results in 60% more electricity being used, at a cost of more than RM3bil.
Universiti Sains Malaysia lecturer Dr Mohd Zin Kandar from the School of Housing, Building and Planning said that most buildings had glass facades.
“Because of the high heat transfer into the building through the external walls, a more powerful air-conditioning system is required to provide a comfortable internal working environment,” he said.
“As a result, this causes electricity consumption to be about 60% more,” said Dr Mohd Zin who studies energy efficiency.
Tenaga Nasional recorded sale of electricity to commercial premises of RM5.763bil in 2004, and 60% of the figure works out to RM3.458bil.
“The building energy index for most office buildings is around 275kW per hour for every square meter in a year compared with the Energy, Water and Communications Ministry’s Low Energy Office (LEO) building in Putrajaya which has an index of only 100kWh,” he told The Star yesterday.
Dr Mohd Zin, a task manager of the government-funded Centre for Education and Training in Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (Cetree), said energy could be saved if the building design maximised the use of sunlight through windows for illumination.
He said efficient indoor lighting and office equipment management, such as switching off electronic equipment and air-conditioning systems during breaks, could help bring down energy costs.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi stressed on energy efficiency in his Budget 2006 speech last Friday and called for conservation of energy as the price of fuel continued to increase worldwide.
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