Abstarct- The growing populations of students in higher institution is increasing year, therefore, it is Important to ensure that the building is performed and well functioned throughout its lifecyle. It is inevitable that the educational process and learning activities may be interrupted if the building experience a poor performance conditions, thus affect the students’ academic achievement. Precedent studies have proved that there is signifance in providing holistic performance in educational buildings that able to improve the students’ learning environment. This study is aimed to provide a new rating tool of building performance, which is hopped to be used extensively on Malaysia’s higher educational buildings in improving the students’ performance level and learning efficiency. The design of sampling selects five Malaysia’s public higher educational institutions, as a case study to obtain the building performance score by visual inspection and determine students’ satisfaction level through questionnaires distribution.
Keywords-building performance, higher educational buildings, performance evaluation, occupants’ satisfaction, learning efficiency
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