Name: Ling Teck Ong

ID : 0303127

Title: Effectiveness of Fiber Cement Weatherboard as sustainable building material to reduce the consumption of resources from nature used in Traditional Chalet,Belum Rainforest Resort to conserve nature.

Abstract

This paper investigated on effectiveness of fiber cement weatherboard used in Traditional Chalet, Belum Rainforest Resort to conserve nature is to identify the types of materials selected at the design stage of building and the impact on its longer-term sustainability fundamentally, in the meantime to enhanced nature without harmful effects. It is important to study and understand green materials which able to help in conserving nature effectively because building material being one of important features to the sustainable architecture, and also the consideration of its impacts to our nature over the life of the product. Built environment can be enhanced without harmful effects by considering the use of sustainable building material in building construction. In assisting the validation of research, literature reviews based on various sources regarding fiber cement weatherboard as sustainable building material were conducted to enhance the process. In order to provide a wider variation of research, it is important to deliberate on contexts that can showcase the effectiveness of fiber cement weatherboard, in which Traditional Chalet (‘Kampung House’), Belum Rainforest Resort, Perak are taken to represent it as the provinces. Fiber cement Weatherboard is kind of green material used in Traditional Chalet. Fiber cement Weatherboard is an autoclaved fiber cement plank manufactured from a mixture of cement, organic fillers and water. Fiber cement weatherboard is a material that is attractive, low maintenance and alternative to PVCu and wood. This material has the visual appeal of natural timber, resistance to rot and easy to install. By using this kind of material, the built environment can be promoted without negative effects on the natural environment. Hence, it has come to a conclusion that fiber cement weatherboard is a sustainable building material that provides a lot of advantages that able to conserve nature effectively. It is personal point of views that many aspects of effectiveness of sustainable building material used to conserve nature can be discovered though research on these two case studies.