The Research and Postgraduate Centre congratulates Ng Wai Lam and Assoc. Prof. Ts. Dr. Vincent Woon Kok Sin from the Department of New Energy Science and Engineering, School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, for their recent research article published in Energy and Buildings, an SCI Q1 journal with the latest impact factor of 6.7. 

Ng Wai Lam is pursuing her master’s degree in New Energy Science and Engineering at Xiamen University Malaysia.

In the paper “Predicting life cycle carbon emission of green office buildings via an integrated LCA-MLR framework”, researchers assessed the life cycle carbon emissions of green-certified office buildings in Malaysia and developed predictive models using an integrated Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) framework. The study focused on embodied carbon and operational carbon to comprehensively understand the carbon footprint throughout a building’s life cycle. The work integrates carbon parameters to enhance prediction accuracy, revealing that cement and steel are the primary contributors to embodied emissions. It also establishes a new Green Office Building Carbon Rating to benchmark the carbon performance of new green buildings against existing ones in Malaysia.

The published full article can be accessed at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2024.114345

Graphical abstract on the methodology and results of this research

The project received financial support from GreenRE Sdn Bhd and Xiamen University Malaysia Research Fund (XMUMRF/2019-C4/IENG/0022) and (XMUMRF/2023-C11/IENG/0057).