Gated communities have emerged as significant features of contemporary urban landscapes, prompting extensive scholarly inquiry into their socio-economic, cultural, and environmental dimensions.This paper presents a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of gated community research to elucidate its interdisciplinary nature, global perspectives, institutional affiliations, and emerging areas of interest.Methodologically, a systematic search within the Scopus database yielded 471 relevant articles published between 1996 and May 2024.Analysis revealed a notable upward trend in publication volume, predominantly comprising peer-reviewed journal articles (73.7%), followed by book chapters (15.7%) and conference papers (4%).Interdisciplinary collaboration was evident, with Social Sciences (47.1%) leading disciplinary contributions, followed by Environmental Science (13.4%) and Engineering (9.9%).Top platforms for dissemination included Housing Studies, Cities, and Urban Studies.Global perspectives showcased contributions primarily from the United States, the United Kingdom, China, and Canada.Institutional analysis highlighted leading contributors such as The City University of New York and University College London.Top researchers included Blandy, Roitman, and Landman, among others.Emerging thematic clusters were visualized, indicating evolving research trajectories and areas of interest, from foundational concepts to niche explorations.This bibliometric analysis provides a roadmap for future research endeavors, emphasizing the need for interdisciplinary collaboration to address the multifaceted challenges and opportunities presented by gated communities in contemporary urban environments.
The Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit (KVMRT) System is set to be one the most important and largest transport infrastructure projects in Malaysia. Since its inception in 2011, the rapid development of the KVMRT System has contributed to a substantial amount of costs related to safety and health issues. Fatalities, serious injuries, and damage to properties have occur every year due to the rapid construction of this project. Work injuries create significant economic and humanitarian consequences to our society, especially to this project where it involves billions of Malaysian Ringgit (RM). The awareness of the accident, especially the payment cost, is absent because the contractors, clients and the consultants leave these matters to the insurance company. They always ignore the indirect costs due to an accident without realising the true losses to them. Therefore, this paper studies the types of indirect costs of accident incurred during the construction of KVMRT Projects. Sixty (60) reported accident cases were examined to measure the level of significance for those items from the safety personnel experiences. The study found that the most significant type of accident contributing to the indirect costs is the Management Cost Component and Accident Report Cost where it involved the cost of the investigation process item until to the preparation of report. The findings of the study may assist stakeholders in estimating the accident costs during construction projects, and, hence, enable them to plan their investments in terms of safety measures in a more insightful manner.
Abstract The demand uses of plastic are increasing day by day leading to the various outsized amount of plastic waste producees across the world. Therefore, a proper discarding of the plastic wastes without causing any environmental risk has become a real challenge. The reuse of plastic to a beneficial product is one of the sustainable options which can secure the environment and prevent the plastic discarded to the landfill or incinerated. In this study, laboratory test was conducted to analyse the potential of recycle plastic waste as liner material in engineering application. The plastic waste was fabricated as 2mm plastic sheet liner and the geotechnical behaviors namely shear strength was analysed and compared with the commercialized liner which known as the geomembrane. Results of shear analysis showed the cohesion between the fabricated plastic waste liner (FPWL) meet the reference value for cohesion ranging 10-24 kPa. However, for internal friction most of the FPWL samples did not meet the reference value for internal friction ranging between 25-35o. This shows that plastic waste has a good shear strength and meet with global factor which feasible as alternative liner material in engineering application.
Sisa pepejal atau sampah adalah bahan buangan yang dijana oleh aktiviti manusia di sekitar kawasan penempatan, tempat kerja dan persekitaran. Peningkatan jumlah sisa pepejal dari tahun ke tahun mendatangkan impak yang negatif terhadap pembangunan komuniti masyarakat dan negara secara amnya. Hal ini berlaku akibat daripada peningkatan populasi manusia dan pembangunan negara. Bagi menangani impak negatif yang terhasil ini, maka langkah yang sistematik dan efisien perlu dilaksanakan melalui pengurusan sisa pepejal bersepadu. Kajian ini bertujuan untuk memberikan pendedahan awal berbentuk literatur terhadap pengurusan sisa pepejal negara yang merangkumi sejarah pengurusan sisa pepejal dunia, pengenalan terhadap senario pengurusan sisa pepejal di Malaysia, jenis-jenis pepejal terkawal serta impak pengurusan sisa pepejal terhadap alam sekitar, sosial dan kesihatan manusia. Kajian turut memberi pengenalan awal terhadap Konsep 4R (‘rethink’,’reduce’,’reuse’,’recycle’) yang boleh diaplikasikan oleh masyarakat bagi membantu proses pengurusan sisa pepejal yang efektif pada masa kini dan hadapan.
Abstract The Royal Belum State Park (RBSP) is gazette as a reserve area in Malaysia is covered by 90% of forest and inhabited by mostly the Jahai tribes. One of the hardships of these indigenous Jahai is to retrieve drinkable water from clean water resource. Due to the constraint of development in the rural area of forest reserve RBSP, a sustainable water supply system project needs to ease the tribe. Hence, this study investigates the potential for a water supply system towards environmental sustainability as a starting point for an environmentally sustainable water supply project at RBSP. The investigation is conducted using the Systematic Literature Review (SLR) on the existing literature with Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA). The statement review method from Scopus and Web of Science databases have recognized 12 out of 84 related research articles searched worldwide on a topic related to the rural sustainable water supply. Findings from the 12 sustainable water supply research articles reveal two main considerations in determining the water supply which are the local context and water sources availability. Hence, a site visit to RBSP is recommended to further investigate the potential water supply system towards environmental sustainability at the research location.
This paper aimed to explore the developer’s perception on the implementation of Green Rating System in Malaysia. There had been a lot of negativity in the construction industry in Malaysia to achieved sustainable environment. 55 respondents from various developers were analysed to obtain the barriers of Green Rating system implementation varied from social barrier, financial barrier, economic barrier, knowledge barrier, technology barrier and political barrier accordingly. An in depth study on specific Green Rating System of Malaysia is highly suggested in the future.
Safety management is one of the safety frameworks that can be applied in construction industry to mitigate the occurrence of accidents and reducing the fatality rate among construction workers. However, data in 2020 shows that there were 206 cases of reported accidents in the construction industry in Malaysia, from January to December 2020. The increasing number of accidents in infrastructure projects involving construction workers has been around for a long time even though the safety management system had been implemented. Thus, the objective of this research is to determine the hindrance factors in safety management practices in the construction of infrastructure projects. A total of 205 questionnaire surveys were distributed to the safety officers who work at G7 contractor specialise in infrastructure projects in Kuala Lumpur area using a snow-balling data collection method. The result revealed that the tight project schedule, poor participation in the safety management practices and poor safety culture are the significant factors that hinders the safety management practices. While lack of motivation among workers is the least important factor that hinder the safety management practices. Thus it is hoped that by tackling and solving these issues may improve the safety management practices, and indirectly reducing the number of accidents and fatalities on the construction site.