Award Categories
NEA Award
Categories

Applications will be judged on their influence, longevity, uniqueness, and replicability, including energy savings and economic, environmental, and environmental impacts). Applicants must be able to present documentation of their operations from the past three years.

Malaysia’s Best Practices/Projects

i. Category 1 – Energy Management

BUILDINGSSmall & Medium – Below 2,000 MWh/year
Large – Above 2,000 MWh/year
INDUSTRIESSmall & Medium – Below 30 Million MJ/year
Large – Above 30 Million MJ/year

To qualify, entrants must be able to demonstrate operations for the past 3 years and will be assessed for impact (energy saving, environmental and economic effect), sustainability, replicability and originality.

Participation in NEA is open to qualifying Malaysian companies able to demonstrate practices and/or projects in Energy Efficient Buildings.

Malaysia’s Best Practices/Projects

Category 2 – Energy Efficient Building

GREEN BUILDINGS

·      Small & Medium – GFA of 300m²- 5,000m²

·      Large – GFA of > 5,000m²

•     Green Residential – Individual landed houses

·      At least one full year of operation

EE DESIGNED BUILDINGS

·      At least one full year of operation

·      Age of the building must not be more than 5 years

RETROFITTED BUILDINGS

·      The age of the building must be at least 5 years’ old

·      20% of the total energy consumption for active retrofit eg A/C retrofits

·      10% of the total energy consumption for non A/C retrofit eg lamps, etc

TROPICAL BUILDING

·      GFA > 500m²

·      Air conditioning area of less than 50% of total GFA

·      High emphasis on effective use of passive design

·      Excludes religious building

ZERO GREEN BUILDING

• ZEB Oriented : More than 30% energy saving (Renewable Energy excluded) 

• ZEB Ready : More than 40% energy saving (Renewable Energy excluded) 

• Nearly ZEB : More than 60% energy saving, include Renewable Energy 

• Net ZEB : 100% or more energy saving, include Renewable Energy

Renewable Energy is further divided into 6 categories :

As part of efforts to recognise the significant role in raising awareness and for encouraging the adoption on sustainable practices, 3 categories of special award namely Energy Performance Contractors, Institute of Higher Learning and Sustainable Energy Financing are also announced.

Raising Awareness and Encouraging Adoption of Sustainable Practices