In recent years, green building has been a trend in the world. Green building in Malaysia is still lagging in terms of development in green building. The construction industry has contributed the greatest percentage of greenhouse gas emissions. In order to reduce this issue, the increase in implementing green buildings is a concern among different construction stakeholders. The aim of this study is to investigate the barriers to implementing green buildings in Malaysia. A systematic review was used to achieve the research aim. A PRISMA protocol was used to present the systematic review. The systematic literature review was conducted between 2018 and 2022, and a total of 18 articles were analyzed. In the process, Scopus and Google Scholar databases were used to find the pertinent articles. In this study, the barrier the green building implementation in Malaysia were identified and categorized into several barriers related to economic, technology and training, knowledge, financial and political aspects. The highlighted key barriers contributed to both industry and government increasing the implementation of green building in Malaysia.

Green building has reduced the negative impact on natural environment which caused by construction activities. Commonly, these green building are built based on opinion and knowledge of construction players such as contractors, developer and engineer and their most critical point is to earn more return on investment, and the practicability and functionality of buildings. However, public is the consumer for green buildings, thus sometimes should listen to the voice out from public. In order to raise public demand for green building, this study is aimed to identify the factors affecting the willingness of public on buying green residential property. There is a rating system that Green Building Index (GBI) as a measurement standard to green building certification in Malaysia. A literature review was performed, followed by a questionnaire survey and a total of fifty-three valid responses are obtained through snowball sampling method. Apart from that, Cronbach’s alpha and mean score analysis were performed in this study. The results revealed that “improve indoor air quality”, “enhance occupant comfort and health” and “lower greenhouse gas emission” were the most important factors affecting public to buy the green residential property. The results of this study could contribute that young generation nowadays actually is most focus on own health and comfortable rather than cost since all the top three ranking is related with indoor environment quality. However, majority young generation respondent is also one of the limitations for this study.