SYNOPSIS

MyCREST stands for Malaysian Carbon Reduction and Sustainability Tool which is under the purview of Ministry of Works. It was develop by Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) and Department of Public Works (JKR) since 2012 and was launched in 2016. The Malaysian government is planning to mandating that all public projects worth RM50 million and above to adopt MyCREST tool.

MyCREST aims to quantify and lower the carbon footprint of construction projects by quantifying building carbon emission in term of embodied carbon and operational carbon.

In this talk, the speaker will introduce to the audience an overview of MyCREST, its rating system inclusive on some of the important criteria, submission scoreboard as well as the certification process. In the talk, the speaker will also share some of the good initiatives demonstrated by MyCREST certified projects on the how to reduce the embodied carbon for the building.


BIODATA OF SPEAKER

Ir. Chong Chew Fan is a Practicing Electrical Engineer and currently base in Selangor. He graduated with a degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)

Ir. Chong is one of the Committee Member who is actively involved in the development of MyCREST from the initial stage and currently he is serving as one of the MyCREST Project Assessor and regular speaker for CIDB on MyCREST.

Ir. Chong is also serve as Green Building Index Accreditation Panel (GBIAP) Member, Council Member of Association of Consulting Engineers Malaysia (ACEM) and Chairman of Electrical Engineering Technical Division (EETD) of Institution of Engineers Malaysia (IEM).