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Awareness of solid waste reduction programs is the priority in institutions of higher learning nowadays for a greener environment, thus brought about the issues of 3r's (reduce, reuse and recycle) practice by all the waste generator within Urban and Higher educational institutions (HEIs) around the globe. Integrated solid waste management hierarchy was adopted to enlighten the waste generators to use them in 3r's critical success factor as a substantial method to deal with the situation, given priority to the waste reduction. This paper highlight the awareness method of 3r's and interdependent nature of the higher education institution's environment, as these can result in cost avoidance, and enhance the systematic practice and lessen environmental impacts for effective and efficient solid waste management in HEI's.

The essence of a view window (VW) in an office building is not only to bring an optimal balance between daylight and electric light, but also for psychological and health purpose. VW does not only allow the admittance of light and views, but indirectly affects the productivity and psychological wellbeing of office occupants; it has a link to the sustainability in both conventional and green buildings. This paper defines the function of a view window as it relates to green office building. Through literature review and an experiment conducted in room 432-01 located at B11 Faculty of Built Environment, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. The function of VW in a green office building is highlighted; and the findings show that a VW would enhance sustainability in an office setting and has a dimension greater than 750mm above a finish floor level and less or equal to 2300mm above a finish floor level and with a wall to window ratio (WWR) of 25% to 40%.

In recent years, interests and activities related to green building has increased. As stakeholders such as builders, architects, and developers have moved towards implementing green building criteria and sub criteria of energy efficiency and the greater usage of reuse and recycled materials in developing homes. The benefits of this transition also influenced the development of affordable homes. In Malaysia, green building for new residential construction consists of six criteria. However the green building criteria are not focusing on affordable home as in Green Communities in US, Eco Homes in UK and Ecocents Living in Australia. Indeed, they have their own green criteria and sub criteria as a means and guidelines for green affordable home development. This paper aims to perceive the criteria and sub criteria of green building which correspond to the types of affordable home in respect to local condition within Malaysia. This research will utilize the Delphi Hierarchy Process (DHP) methodology which integrates the delphi method with the analytic hierarchy process. It assists the expert panels to systematically identify the green affordable home criteria and sub criteria. The findings proposed in this research will be DHP decision model for green affordable home in Malaysia as a tool for decision making for developers in green affordable home development. It is hoped that this study will help to cater the issues of affordable homes as well as environmental with implementation of green building criteria and sub criteria into affordable home in Malaysia.