Floor area concession incentives as planning instruments to promote green building: A critical review of international practices

Gross Floor Area (GFA) concession scheme, as a planning incentive, is developed from the notion of “make developers pay” in UK in 1990. It rewards developers additional GFA in exchange for public amenities so that government could save that amount of money. This paper carries out a review of GFA concession scheme in Hong Kong and Singapore to...

Innovations in building regulation and control for advancing sustainability in buildings (I)

This session brings together policy-makers, government officials, researchers and others to present perspectives on how innovation in building regulation and control, such as performancebased approaches, are currently being used to advance sustainability concepts in buildings, and where and how we might see further innovation in the coming years...

Towards Malaysian LADM Country Profile for 2D and 3D Cadastral Registration System

This paper proposes a comprehensive Land Administration Domain Model (LADM, ISO 2012) country profile for 2D and 3D cadastral registration system for Malaysia. The proposed Malaysian country profile is partly based on the existing spatial (including survey) and administrative registration systems, and partly based on new developments inspired by...

Development of a Prototype for the Assessment of the Malaysian LADM Country Profile

During the last couple of years, the potential of 3D and Land Administration Domain Model (LADM, ISO 2012) based cadastral registration in Malaysiahas been investigated and described in several papers, and presented at various International Federation of Surveyor (FIG) meetings. Based on these preparations, a two day workshop and additional...