Students awareness on environmental quality in term of daily life routine / Noorlida Daud, Wan Noor AniraHj Wan Ali @ Yaacob & Anwar Fikri Abdullah

Environmental quality can be defined as a set of properties and characteristics of the environment. Students should be concern about their routine on this environmental quality but unfortunately students nowadays lack of awareness towards the environmental quality. In fact some of them do not know that they have to take care of their hostel rooms, classrooms or studios. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to measure the level of understanding on the needs to maintain the rooms that they use. This study is also aimed to determine the level of environmental quality awareness among UiTM Perak’s students in Seri Iskandar. Questionnaire will be given to respondent, which is consisting of 50 students from Art and Design Faculty and 50 students from Architecture, Planning and Surveying Faculty

The potential of lake in generating the urban community development, case study : Putrajaya Lake, Federal of Putrajaya / Wan Noor Anira Hj Wan Ali @ Yaacob ... [et al.]

Lake is not only the recreational area for people but also promote physical and economic development. Lake in urban environments is an important sources to remote and protects our natural environments. Lake also gives benefit to create positive social, culture and physical development in urban community. In Canada, the Ontario Lake is an axial development of their commercial, residential, tourism and also as recreational areas. However, in Malaysia lake development is still diffident and less comprehensive as a community centre in socio- culture environment. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to interconnect the design implementation and the potential of Putrajaya Lake with the Putrajaya community and the land use (commercial, residential, recreational and administration) areas. The research methodology is based on site inventory, site analysis and also using primary and secondary data. The findings were used in helping Putrajaya Lake expand its sense of ownership among their community as well as in constructing Putrajaya Lake as an enormous destination of water recreation. Furthermore, Putrajaya Lake is known to have an acceptable urban setting condition with higher quality water level to cater its multi-functional uses such as for boating, fishing, recreational and water sport. This will help Putrajaya to achieve its inspiration of “City in a Garden”

An assessment of carbon footprint at Universiti Teknologi MARA Seri Iskandar Perak, Malaysia / Nor IzanaMohd Shobri ... [et al.]

Climate change and global warming have worsenedsince over the past year due to the greenhouse gas emission. Evidences show one of the main factors that contributes to global warmingis the impact of carbon footprint. Human activities are the causes of a great deal of carbon footprint. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to assess the carbon footprint emission at UniversitiTeknologi MARA (UiTM) Seri Iskandar, Perak. The study focuses on two categories specifically on electrical power and transportation usage that contribute to carbon footprint emission. A survey on transportation was conducted by distributing questionnaire to the staffand students within the university. Meanwhile for electrical power consumption, the study used monthly electricity bills to measure the amount of energy consumed.Data was collected and calculated with the formula developed by Green House Gas protocol, resulted in the total carbon footprint produced by UiTM Seri Iskandar Perak for the year 2014. The result of the study is hoped to provide guidelines and strategies for the university to reduce the carbon footprint emission at UiTM Seri Iskandar, Perak

Vegetation density and their impact on urban open spaces microclimate : a case study of KLCC Park, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia / Wan Noor Anira Hj. Wan Ali@Yaacob, Norasikin Hj. Hassan and Ameri Mohd Sarip@Shariff

Urban open spaces are one of the characteristics of urban environment that is of enormous importance in the daily life of people living in urban areas. However, urban open spaces in tropical climate are highly exposed to solar radiation. These conditions will lead to increased global warming and urban heat island. Therefore, vegetation (trees) in urban areas is of special value as they can reduce the air temperature by direct shading of surface as well as by moderating solar heat gain through evapotranspiration of the trees. This study compares the effectiveness and influences of vegetation density (High, Medium and Low Density) on microclimate modification in improving ambient and human thermal comfort in urban open spaces. The study employed three (3) methods: (i) plant species selection procedure, (ii) a field measurement procedure and (iii) computer-based microclimate analysis (Temperature, Surface temperature and Relative humidity). The result from this study indicates that high vegetation, medium vegetation and low vegetation density of Peltophorum pterocarpum (Yellow Flame) species on 100 meter² have a different significance to direct microclimate on urban open spaces. The study found that the high vegetation density of the under turf and pavement of 100 meter² has more significance and influence on the microclimate modification in urban open spaces than the medium and low vegetation density due to the tree canopy. High vegetation density of Peltophorum pterocarpum (Yellow Flame) species of 100 meter² capability contributes to the reduction of the air temperature of up to 3.1 °C by promoting more evapotranspiration and effectively improving the ambience and outdoor thermal comfort in tropical urban open spaces

Carbon footprint assessment at Universiti Teknologi Mara Seri Iskandar Campus, Malaysia / ... [et al.]

The purpose of this study is to assess the carbon footprint emission at UiTM Perak, Seri Iskandar Campus. The assessment focuses on electrical power and transportation usage. Questionnaires were distributed to the staffs and students to survey their transportation usage in the year 2014 while for electrical consumption, the study used total energy consumed in the year 2014. Data was calculating with the formula by Green House Gas Protocol. Total carbon footprint produced by UiTM Perak, Seri Iskandar Campus in the year 2014 is 11842.09 MTCO . The result of the study is hoped to provide strategies for the university to reduce the carbon footprint emission