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SUSTAINABILITY IN GEOTECHNICAL

ENGINEERING THROUGH THE USE OF

TECHNOLOGIES

Penulis : Mohamed Azuan bin Wahari

The development of sustainable buildings

and infrastructures is one of the main

challenges faced by geotechnical

engineers. As a geotechnical engineers,

with the experiences in understanding the Our development plans have always been

behaviour of earth materials and geared towards sustainability both for the

knowledge to deal with slopes,

foundations, retaining structures, etc., environment and for the living.

Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin

thus plays a vital role in sourcing

sustainable construction methods.

Implementing cost effective and

environmentally friendly, it can make a Some strategies that have been suggested by

substantial contribution to sustainable Abidin et al 2020 are:

development in the construction sector.

i protection of the natural environment,

In year 2002, the National Policy on the ii waste management,

Environment (NPE) was formulated by the iii reuse and recycle of resources,

Department of Environment, under the iv general site management, and

Ministry of Natural Resources and v resource consumption.

Environment of Malaysia. The NPE aims to

promote sustainable development Hence, this article is to discuss the potential

through managing and conserving the contributions from geotechnical point of view

environment with environmentally sound towards sustainability development through

technologist. some of the above strategies.

Over the years, many

In line with the NPE, construction sector

has been promisingly supporting the technologies have

policy by implementing green been introduced which

construction practices in construction can significantly help to

industry. This is obviously reflected when reduce carbon

the sustainable and green construction footprint, bring less

become an important subject and has pollutants and required

been duly highlighted under the less resources during

Malaysian Construction Industry Master the construction

Plan (2006-2015). activities.

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