Carbon Footprint Calculator for Malaysian Construction Industry with Case-Based Reasoning

Malaysia's carbon emission level has reached an alarming point. Cnrrently, the
country is ranked 30th for the highest amount of carbon emitted by a country.
Construction industry alone contributes 24% of the nation's carbon emission. There
are various ways of reducing the amount of C02 in the said industry. One of which is
through usage of low impact materials in buildings. However, cnrrently there is no
existing system such as Carbon Footprint Calculator for the Construction Industry
tailoring towards the local needs. This project creates a calculator that can determine
the carbon footprint of materials in construction projects embedded with a CaseBased
Reasoning (CBR) functionality. The project aims to reduce carbon emission
levels for construction activity through better selection and combination of material
resulting in lower carbon emission per square feet of a building. Construction firms
can ouly make informed and better decision with substantial amount of information
such as the total amount of carbon emission per square feet which the system
calculates. Furthermore, users of the calculator also have the option to use similar
past cases (projects)' s material selection as a solution to a new project to be
implemented. Following the prototyping system development life cycle
methodology, the software is further refined and tested until the prototype software is
fully stable and functioning. The calculator's accuracy is unquestionable and very
much reliable through the various test cases conducted on it.