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Green or sustainable design approach in all industries and sectors has become a demand of the global world. The negative impacts of the industries such climate change; global warming, ozone depletion and inefficient resource consumption have received a great concern and awareness among the public, politicians and academicians. Thus, a lot of efforts have been implemented either in terms of theories or practices in order to reduce the negative impacts of the industries. In the building sector, the sustainable building rating systems (SBRS) and certification systems has been designed and adopted in the building sector which intended to foster more sustainable building design, construction and operations by promoting and making possible a better integration of environmental concerns with cost and other traditional decision criteria. However, most of the internationally devised rating systems and certification system have been tailored to suit the building sector of the country where they were developed. Despite the different rating system adopted for the building sector in different country, these rating systems shared the common elements. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to explore the elements used in SBRS and the classification of certification system. This paper will start with the historic of sustainable development and green design, subsequently followed with the discussion on the SBRS adopted which focused only for Asian region and lastly, discussion on the unique elements of SBRS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]