Hospital design in tropical Malaysia - towards a green agenda

• Main Authors: Mohd Nawawi, Norwina, Sapian, Abdul Razak, Abdul Majid, Noor Hanita, Aripin, Srazali
• Other Authors: del Nord, Romano
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English; English; English
• Published: TESIS Inter University Research Centre System Technology for Social and Healthcare Facilities. University of Florence 2013
• Subjects: NA Architecture; NA190 History; NA4100 Special classes of buildings; RA Public aspects of medicine; RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine; TH6014 Environmental engineering.
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/37628/17/FINAL_-Tropical_Hospital_Design_for_Malaysia-_240314.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/37628/31/UIA-PHG_2014chapter.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/37628/33/PP_277-290_UIA-PHG_2013.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/37628/; http://www.tesis.unifi.it
• Institution: Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia

‘Sustainability’ as a terminology, is a broad concept and a requirement in building designs with a tendency of being abuse through trendy and over commercialisation. In the arena of hospital design, new is usually associated to being modern and therefore, green. In the quest of getting to know the “...