Awareness and Initiatives of Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) implementation in Malaysian Housing Industry

Sustainability is a key concern among the Malaysian government today. Through the overlapping of the energy and constructionsector, one of the initiatives that the government has done after research and development is the Building Integrated Photovoltaic(BIPV) program. However, though more than ten years have passed after the introduction of BIPV, the implementation is stillconsidered very weak as it is still not a common practice in the construction industry. One of the reasons is because many are stillsceptical about BIPV especially among house buyers and are more concern to the prices of the houses. The other factor isdevelopers are dormant in using BIPV and have limited support in BIPV information that can convince house buyers make theirdecision to invest into BIPV. This research investigates the application issues faced by the developers, their outlook on BIPV andconsiderations for selection on BIPV. A three stage Delphi interview with eight developer companies as part of a purposivesample is applied, where stage one focuses on the application issues that is faced by developing and stage two the depth of t heissues with workable solutions is proposed and validated among the developing consensus. Stage three helps mapping out crucialcriteria of selection process that the developers will employ and other consideration towards BIPV. The preliminary results showthat more establish developers have employed green technology, but none has considered BIPV yet with cost as a major factor inmind. Their process of selection is not established and individual has various interests that needed to be maintained. It can beconcluded that developers indeed are a substantial catalyst for implementing BIPV. This study proposes a guideline to achieve astronger implementation of BIPV for a more sustainable housing project among the developers