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Abstract - Issue Sep 2016, 37 (5) Back
nstantaneous and historical temperature effects on a-pinene
Evaluation
of carbon reduction through integration of vertical and horizontal landscape
design for hotel premises
Rashidi
Othman1*, Siti Zubaidah Abu Kasim1, Khairusy Syakirin
Has-Yun Hashim2 and Zainul Mukrim Baharuddin2
1International
Institute for Halal Research and Training, Kulliyyah of Engineering,
International Islamic University Malaysia, 53100, Kualal Lumpur, Malaysia
2Kulliyyah of
Architecture and Environmental Design (KAED),? International Islamic
University Malaysia, Jalan Gombak, 53100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
*Corresponding
Author E-mail: rashidi@iium.edu.my
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Publication
Data
Paper received:
26 September 2015
Revised received:
27 April 2016
Revised received:
5 May 2016
Accepted:
23 June 2016
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Abstract
Hotel
premises is a fundamental component of the tourism and hospitality. The
design, construction, operation and end-of-life-cycle processes of hotel
premises built the environment by which it exerts both positive and negative
impacts on the guest and surrounding environment. Carbon emission from hotel
premises are one of the major sources for greenhouse effect in urban areas.
To counteract these tendencies, it is therefore necessary to identify green
building practices that can be implemented over the hotel building's carbon
emission in order to reduce its environmental impact as minimize the
operational cost while maximizing economic and social opportunities. This
study proved that through a substantial integration of spatial landscape
design in combination with the right selection of plant materials based on
its characteristics, carbon sequestration rate in a hotel premise can be
optimized. Consequently, the role of these plants and trees in sequestering
carbon emission will be best understood and the greatest opportunity as a
carbon sink may be explored. This study aimed to predict carbon sequestration
rate by plant materials through integration of vertical and horizontal
landscape design. The decisive outcome of this study is a green practice
applied in monitoring carbon toxicity and a cost effective environmental
friendly carbon neutralization.
Key
words
Carbon
emission, Carbon sequestration, Greenhouse effect, Hotel premises, Plant
materials
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