Sustainable Environment: Issues and Solutions from the Perspective of Facility Managers

The achievement of sustainable development in environment necessitates a holistic effort in all areas of society to meet the appropriate criteria. Current debates about urban sustainability not only tend to focus on carbon emissions, energy consumption and waste management, but also the role of facility managers in dealing the environmental problems towards sustainaibility development and environment. Inevitably, there is a need to specify the permissible building specific environmental that must be compatible with overall sustainability targets. This paper delineates the mitigation plan that can be adopted by facility managers to overcome environmental issues that may affect the total management, performance and operation of development. This paper also described several environmental problems occured in Malaysia, focussing on technical issues that harm the environment and sustainable development. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of Universiti Teknologi MARA Perak and Institution of Surveyors Malaysia (ISM)