Rozana Zakaria

University of Technology Malaysia

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Eeydzah Aminudin

Universiti Teknologi MARA

Rosli Mohamad Zin

University of Technology Malaysia

Nur IzieAdiana Abidin

University of Technology Malaysia

Muhd Zaimi Abd Majid

University of Technology Malaysia

Siti Mazzuana Shamsuddin

Universiti Teknologi MARA

Shaza Rina Sahamir

Universiti Teknologi MARA

Khairulzan Yahya

University of Technology Malaysia

Vikneswaran Munikanan

National Defence University of Malaysia

Abdul Rahim Abdul Hamid

Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir

Zaiton Haron

University of Technology Malaysia

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Newcastle University Medicine Malaysia

Malaysia University of Science and Technology

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Tun Hussein Onn University of Malaysia

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Universiti Teknologi Petronas

Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

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Investigation of green assessment criteria & sub-criteria for public hospital building development in Malaysia

Chemical engineering transactions (2017)

Shaza Rina Sahamir Rozana Zakaria Gamal Alqaifi Nur IzieAdiana Abidin Raja Rafidah Raja Muhammad Rooshdi

Malaysia as a developing country has extreme motives towards sustainable development as a lifestyles practice, thus the need to prepare for the change is required. The implementations of sustainability have become important initiatives discussed and undertaken by both private and public sector dealing with residential and non-residential buildings including hospital buildings. A hospital, healthcare facility, has been upgraded from essential to very essential in the context of Sustainable City. Buildings are known as human habitat and shelter. Peoples' health and the environment condition are highly influenced by the way the buildings have been designed, constructed and operated. Compared to other building types, the 24 hours' scenario use of healthcare buildings have a particular large impact on the environment. The problems created by rampant urbanisation are among the most important challenges recently. Thus, the development of green hospital is important in order to create a healthy lifestyle that viable economically, environmentally and socially. The investigation of green assessment main criteria and sub criteria for public hospital building development in Malaysia is the primary aim for this research. Healthcare buildings' essential criteria of existing green rating systems worldwide and the difference between each criterion compared to Malaysian green rating system all are compiled. Guideline and existing tools are thoroughly reviewed, analysed and divided according to similar categories covers all aspect of building design, construction and operation. The data then will be analysed using content analysis in order to identify the various sub criteria to hospital buildings development. The results from the analysis demonstrate a set of assessment criteria for green public hospital building corresponding to Malaysia's scale.

Green Building

Public hospital

Implementation

Rating system

10.3303/cet1756052

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An Assessment of Green Rural Road Criteria and Elements for My Green Rural Road Index: A Case Study in Pengerang, Johor

IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science (2022)

Nadish Mustafa Vikneswaran Munikanan Rozana Zakaria Eeydzah Aminudin S Langie

Abstract The rural road networks were built to connect the rural people to the town area or to other destination required by the local residents. Normally the rural roads will be developed to connect or increase the socio-economic opportunity in rural area. The green road is one of the key areas that can be look into to create the sustainable concept based on three key aspects namely social, environmental and economic factors. The main focus of the economy aspect is to increase the profits using more efficient resources, especially materials, improving the quality of life by meeting the national needs of social aspects and protecting the environment from the effects of CO 2 emissions and efficient use of natural resources for environmental aspects. Therefore, it is important that stakeholders include sustainability criteria in their projects. The application of a sustainable concept on the road can be assessed by the green road evaluation tool. Therefore, the main aim of this study is to build tools to evaluate and declare green rural roads in Malaysia. The data for this study were gathered through group discussions with road construction experts and distributed questionnaires to identify sustainability factors. Then the data were analysed by factor analysis method using SPSS software. Based on the result, there are five main sustainable criteria: Sustainable Design and Construction, Social and Safety, Energy Efficiency, Environmental and Water Management and Materials and Technology that are included in the development of the green road qualification system. The analysis indicates that the social and safety become the prime criteria among other criteria.

Sustainable transport

10.1088/1755-1315/971/1/012001

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Assessment of criteria affecting decision making for retrofitting an existing building with a green roof

AIP conference proceedings (2023)

Nur IzieAdiana Abidin Rozana Zakaria Eeydzah Aminudin Siti Mazzuana Shamsudin Shaza Rina Sahamir

Retrofitting

Green roof

Green Building

10.1063/5.0167588

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Talent as a Spearhead of Construction 4.0 Transformation: Analysis of Their Challenges

IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering (2021)

Santi Edra Nisa Lau Eeydzah Aminudin Rozana Zakaria Changsaar Chai Ahmad Farhan Roslan

Abstract Global industries are investing in technology to accelerate digital transformation. Construction is also most likely to be digitalised based on current technology trends. However, technology adoption is not the only ingredient to successfully transform the construction industry towards the fourth industrial revolution (4IR). This transformation requires additional changes for the employees. It is expected to significantly impact the talent landscape, ranging from job categories to skill sets. While this transformation holds excellent benefits, it also poses many challenges. This paper discusses the challenges that individuals, construction companies and governments face from a talent perspective. The data is obtained from literature review results and content analysis through focus group discussion. A focus group discussion was conducted among experts with high knowledge in both the construction industry and 4IR. Information obtained from the discussion was used to identify and categorise the determining challenges. The study revealed nine (9) major talent challenges that the construction industry is currently facing, such as inadequate high skilled talent, lack of education and training to widen talent readiness, talent job security, lack of awareness or clarity of 4IR, dependency on outside talent, employer’s readiness, negative attitude of future talent towards changes, the potential of emigration of highly trained or qualified talent, and strong resistance towards new changes and technologies. 4IR can be implemented effectively in the Malaysian construction industry if key challenges that hold the talent are overcome. In conclusion, an active role from quadruple helix collaboration positively assist the transformation.

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10.1088/1757-899x/1200/1/012025

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The Importance of Life Cycle Cost (LCC) Components for Emerging Green Costs Incurred in Green Highway Budget Preparation Decision-Making

IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science (2022)

Muhammad Faiz Abd Rahman Rozana Zakaria Siti Mazzuana Shamsudin Eeydzah Aminudin Omar Sedeeq Yousif

Abstract In the journey towards sustainably preserving road infrastructures, financial planning and its asset management are essential to preserve and rejuvenate at its life cycle stages efficiently. There are many methods and efforts to integrate current practices. The road components assets’ Life Cycle Cost (LCC) will have an impact in terms of more substantial cost investment since reliable cost information is rarely sufficient. The final budget of various road projects should be calculated based on the Life cycle costing, which covers both costs and revenues for the period of development until post-construction. This paper focuses on the importance of the Life cycle costing components to the green highway project, and it also responds to the sustainability of road infrastructure development literatures reported. This paper also highlights the anticipated results, leading to the identification of crucial models in creating the Life cycle costing decision-making instrument. The findings of this paper have significance in terms of encouraging stakeholders to react to green highway evolution and establish Life cycle costing as a decision-making tool.

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Life-cycle Cost Analysis

10.1088/1755-1315/1067/1/012061

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LATE PAYMENT PRACTICES IN THE MALAYSIAN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

Malaysian Journal of Civil Engineering (2016)

Mohd Khairul Anas Mohd Badroldin Abdul Rahim Abdul Hamid Syazwani Abdul Raman Rozana Zakaria Saeed Reza Mohandes

Factors that influence contractors „cash flow are the frequency of payment, delay, profit margin, retention fund, payment term to the supplier and subcontractor, advanced payment and others. Late payment from the client has become a habit in the construction industry and this practice had caused many implications such as bankruptcy, the higher contract sum due to higher risk, uncomfortable relationship between the payer and payee, disturbance of supply chain and others. The aim of this paper is to examine the late payment practices in the Malaysian construction industry. Thirty seven (37) sets of questionnaire had been collected among the Grade G7 contractors and subcontractors in the state of Selangor based on convenience sampling. The collected data were analysed by using frequency distribution and relative important index (RII). The Data then was tabulated and illustrated in the form of charts. The results of the study show that the late payment is one of the most critical problems in the Malaysian construction industry. The majority of the contractor experienced late payment quite frequently and even beyond the stipulated contract term. The top three impacts of the late payment problems are the negative chain effect on other parties, delay in project completion and lead to bankruptcy or liquidation

Profit margin

10.11113/mjce.v28n0.455

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Embedded Life Cycle Costing Elements in Green Building Rating Tool

Civil Engineering Journal (2019)

Jam Shahzaib Khan Rozana Zakaria Eeydzah Aminudin Nur IzieAdiana Abidin Mohd Affifuddin Mahyuddin

Green Building rating tools are the essential need of this era, to cope up with the sustainable development goals, climate change, and natural resource degradation through buildings. Realization of green building incentives decently increased within past few decades with abrupt declination in real estate markets and economic depletion has decelerated the interest of investors towards the green building projects. This research calculates influence of costing elements in MyCREST (IS-design) using questionnaire survey distributed amongst qualified professionals (QP’S) of green buildings and expert practitioners. Firstly, factor score and then weightage factor was performed to produce the final result with weightage output for evaluating weighatge and ranking of the relevant criteria of MyCREST and life cycle cost elements respectively. It is found that the criteria of storm water management has weighatge of 0.236 as highest and criteria environmental management plan (EMP) as 0.061 as lowest. Research also identified another perspective by finding association of cost element at design stage of MyCREST and found that management cost is highly associated at design stage with the value of 87.7%. The outcome of this research will add value to green building development and map road towards sustainable development using green building tools to uplift quality of life. Furthermore, this paves a way to integrate various stages of MyCREST with life cycle costing tool to potentially contribute in evaluating cost association through green building rating tool.

Life Cycle Costing

10.28991/cej-2019-03091284

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Traditional formwork system sustainability performance: experts’ opinion

IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering (2017)

Mohammed Taher Alashwal Redzuan Abdullah Rozana Zakaria

The traditional formwork system is one of the commonly used systems in concrete construction. It is considered as one of the least observed activities in term of sustainability performance. In this paper, the sustainability performance of the traditional formwork has been assessed by using a multi-criteria assessment tool to facilitate the decision on the sustainability performance measurement. A quantitative five Likert scale survey study using judgemental sampling is employed in this study. A sample of 93 of engineering construction experts, with different fields including contractors, developers, and consultants in the Malaysian context has made the body of the collected primary data. The results show variety in the distribution of the respondents' working experience. The sustainability performance is considered moderately sustainable by the experts with only given 40.24 % of the overall total score for the three sustainable categories namely environmental, social and economic. Despite the finding that shows that the economic pillar was rated as the most sustainable aspect in comparison to the environmental and social pillars the traditional formwork system sustainability still needs enhancement. Further incorporation of the social and environmental pillars into the concrete construction the sustainability performance of traditional formwork system could be improved.

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Formwork

10.1088/1757-899x/271/1/012108

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Web-Based Big Data Integration Visualisation Solutions

Community, environment and disaster risk management (2022)

Omar Sedeeq Yousif Rozana Zakaria

Industries' projects are associated with large amounts of data throughout the project lifecycle. As the size of the projects grows, so does the data associate with the projects. To generate useful information from Big Data, appropriate predictive analysis and data visualisation tools are required. Therefore, the use of visualisation techniques will target this expected evolution of big data. Thus, this study aims to give an overview of the migrations of an existing computer-based application, used to analyse multidata sources of enterprises, to a web-based application. Essential development aspects were concerned with the process of application development, platform development, software utilisation, and efficient display interface according to the enterprise's requirement. Two solutions such as Microsoft Power Business Intelligence (BI) and the Dynamic Web System have been presented that proven to be widespread because these solutions have met the enterprises' requirements in terms of expenses, policy, security, maintenance, and interactive interface. Also, an assessment of these solutions and challenges to adopting has been presented. Eventually, the system developed on the web overcomes computer-based systems in solving their problems such as deploying and maintaining applications and providing efficient and richer user interfaces for users. The web-based visualisation application has wide beneficial features; it provides high-performance real-time data analysis, data multimodal visualisation, and friendly to use. Web-based applications will increase confidence in decision-making based on data visualisation, which will positively reflect on comprehensive data analysis processes for project success.

Interface (matter)

Business Intelligence

10.1108/s2040-726220220000026009

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Key influencing factors for green public hospital building development in Malaysia

MATEC Web of Conferences (2019)

Shaza Rina Sahamir Rozana Zakaria Raja Rafidah Raja Muhd Rooshdi Noor Akmal Adillah Ismail Zainab Mohmad Zainordin

The green hospital movement began years ago, following by several countries release their green rating system for the hospital buildings. In the past few years, a few newly constructed private hospital buildings in Malaysia have strived for the green building index certification. Paucity studies demonstrate that public hospital buildings have established for certifying the index. Despite the recognition of the importance of green building in achieving sustainability goal and the existence of many studies on issues associated with green innovations adoption in general, few have specifically examined factors influencing the development of green public hospital building. As a result, with the intent to enhance green building promotion efforts, the primary objective of this study is to investigate the key factors influencing the development of green public hospital building. A review of literature has been conducted and a set of factors were identified. A questionnaire survey was carried out based on the literature review to solicit experts’ opinions. The experts were requested to evaluate the degree to which factor was an important in the implementation of green public hospital buildings. Feedbacks from 82 design experts were collected and analysed using descriptive analysis. The findings indicate that several factors were identified as key factors for the development of green public hospital buildings. The identified factors have incorporated with the accomplishment of environmental stewardship, social responsibility and economic prosperity.

Green Building

Public hospital

Promotion (chess)

Prosperity

10.1051/matecconf/201926601025

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