Green Building Rating System: The need of Material Resources Criteria in Green Building Assessment

Buildings account for two-fifths of its material,
where it causes’ water, air pollution, and degrades the land in
the world. While, materials are the substance of economic life
in industrial sector, which have resource inputs and product
outputs of industrial production. To mitigate the impact,
International Council of Research and Innovation in Building
and Construction (CIB) identified green building towards
achieving sustainability. This led to the issue on how to assess
the building life cycle. Building Research Establishment
Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) is the first
Green Building Rating System that introduce in 1990. Green
Building Index (GBI) from Malaysia and Greenship from
Indonesia are the two recent ones, introduced in 2009 and 2010
respectively. GBRS evaluates the performances of the building,
give an award points, through each criteria, and sub criteria.
This paper identifies GBI and Greenship in how they
evaluating building materials component as one of the criteria.
Finally, it was found that both, in some point, have different
assessment to evaluate building in terms of their building
materials.