Although industry players in Malaysia’s architecture and engineering sectors have been seeing green for quite sometime, the national architecture association Pertubuhan Akitek Malaysia(PAM) only recently made its love for sustainable official by combining forces with Association of Consulting Engineers of Malaysia(ACEM) to introduce the Green Building Index Initiative(GBI), a rating system which ambitiously aims to guide building owners and developers on the right path in terms of designing and constructing sustainable structures which will reduce the nation’s carbon footprint.