Motivators and barriers for green building construction in Malaysian: Universiti Utara Malaysia students perspective

The adoption and implementation of green building has become one of the most important elements in green construction.Green building can be defined as a foundation of the sustainable development and has being highlighted under the Malaysia Construction Industry Master Plan (2006-2015).The motivators for development of green building and implementation applied in building can be traced to awareness among people.Although green building provide consists of benefit for the economy, green building development society and positive environment especially in developing Malaysia towards a better country.The barriers to implementation green building for the important barriers that block the green building movement. This thesis objective to identify motivators and barriers towards green building, to identify important elements for green building for green building and sustainable development, and to identify possible solution to the problem related to green building.The respondents in this research were randomly selected from student of University Utara Malaysia and method applied for the collection of data was using questionnaire survey based on deep literature search.The finding shall assist in understanding the motivators and barriers green building in Malaysia