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My First Conference's Presentation : Venice, Italy : 2015

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By Firrbudi aka Lensahijau

'AIRHOUSE' - A NATURAL VENTILATION SOCIETY OF MALAYSIA : CONTRIBUTION TO THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Currently, most of the highrise buildings in Malaysia are using fully air conditioning systems which ducted mechanical systems with heating, cooling and humidity control. Some of them are using zoned type of mixed mode ventilation, but the air conditioned areas are much greater than areas using natural ventilation. Therefore, this scenario leads to high capital and high operating cost for the buildings.  There are also a few examples of high rise office buildings in Malaysia that using partly natural ventilation system such as UMNO Tower in Penang and Mesiniaga Tower in Kuala Lumpur. There are also high-rise condominium towers such as TTDI Plaza, TTDI Residence & Idamen Residence in Kuala Lumpur that were designed to be naturally ventilated. Not forgetting, hundreds of high rise social housing throughout the country that are supposed to be naturally ventilated. However, most of these buildings were transformed to be fully air conditioned either for the whole building or whole