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Due to growing concern regarding sustainability in the built environment, several green building assessments and rating tools have been established worldwide including Green Building Index (GBI) in Malaysia which was introduced in 2009. However, the current methods of measuring, analysing and documenting the green building design rely on a number of disjointed processes to meet the discrete requirements for various building systems. The development of building information modelling (BIM) together with computational programming has made it easier for complicated building modelling to be digitally constructed, generating required information to support green building design and assessment throughout various project stages. Thereby, the aim of this research is to integrate computational BIM with green building design and assessment in Malaysia, using GBI as a unique case and an office building in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as a case study. Match-up of BIM (Revit) functionalities and GBI (NRNC) criteria was formulated, then visual programming (Dynamo) was employed to automate the BIM data management process. The findings of this research have developed workflows and templates to assess several criteria, namely energy efficiency (EE), indoor environmental quality (EQ), sustainable site planning and management (SM) and material and resources (MR), which allow a higher level of automation in green building assessment.

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This study evaluates the spatial properties of flats block, where daily social interactions often take place, in order to identify socially encouraging layouts. It attempts to establish any significant relationship between spatial properties of flats layouts and the local network of social relations among the residents. It employed network mapping to measure social contact sizes and utilized syntactical software to compare visibility and integration levels of various flats configurations. Findings showed possible relationship between flats spatial properties and the size of social contacts. Keywords: Flats configuration; Local Social Contact; Outdoor Near Home Space; Visibility; Integration. eISSN 2514-751X © 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. https://doi.org/10.21834/aje-bs.v3i8.275 

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