The impact of slope engineering as a green technology towards the environment

Human intervention on the environment affects the change of landforms all over the world. As the population keeps on growing, more land will be required for different uses and activities, whether it is for lodging, cultivating or industrial uses. Another human activity that influences slope destruction is the construction of buildings.However, in demanding area of land for the necessities of human, land is regularly being manhandled and changed drastically due to overuse. The massive alteration on the slope area has caused the soil erosion issues. The current research has shown that the biotechnical erosion or bioengineering technique is the green approach to prevent the soil erosion .This paper presents the application of bioengineering techniques on slope engineering that would give positive impact towards the environment. The data for this study was collected using primary and secondary data by doing site survey and observation on checklists that extracted from the literature review.The finding of the study inspired to find the best technique in mitigating the issues of soil erosion by the application of bioengineering techniques on slope engineering. In conclusion, the bioengineering techniques are regarded as green technology that would give positive impact as it can increase the safety factors on the slopes as well as act as soil erosion control

Auto-City Theme Park, Juru, Penang

The project presents the design proposal for Auto-City Theme Park, which focuses on planning and designing a unique interchange spot. Auto-City is located in Juru, Penang. The design proposal is focusing on Phase 3. It is strategically located as it is next to North-South Highway. Since the site is located at commercial area and surrounded by automobile trade centre, it will offer great opportunities for a motor-centric event that can serve the car enthusiasts. However, some issues arise at the area of Auto-City that need to be addressed by the proposal, such as high in carbon emission, less green space and loss of natural heritage. Thus, this study articulates the strategies for a proposal on Auto-City Theme Park derived from several methods, which are observation and interview on special persons and the public. As a result, the concept of “Hybrid” has been implemented in the design proposal to achieve the objectives. There are three key points that basically reflected in Auto- City Theme Park: (a) to promote the concept of corridor development with integrated and centralised development nucleus (b) Restore mangrove habitats and improve regional water quality (c) Rehabilitate Auto-City to reduce the carbon emission through ecological approaches. In short, this design thesis is aimed to create a unique interchange spot Auto-City that is centered around the auto-mobile culture while preserving the ecological balance. Therefore, there are solutions formulated through landscape design to cater all the issue arise

Impact of rooftop garden and shading effect towards human thermal comfort

Human thermal comfort is an indicator for satisfaction of human towards the thermal factor in the environment. This topic may be a subjective matter due to the different characteristics of human to reach a certain level for obtaining the same satisfaction of thermal comfort. Factors that are looked into through this study are surface temperature, and solar radiation. Data collected through these factors, are then further supported by photographical observations, which are done simultaneously with questionnaires to relate and display the environment condition with the human thermal comfort. Questionnaires are distributed in order to gauge the statistics of several groups of people to compare between their characteristics and their level of thermal comfort. Site chosen for rooftop garden was the ‘Secret Garden’ 1 Utama and to contrast it is the plain rooftop of Lot10 and the rooftop parking of Sungei Wang Plaza, Kuala Lumpur. As for urban square, the research was conducted at Standard Charted KL Park. Our results came up with a conclusion that areas that are covered with dense green canopies like rooftop gardens and large vegetation are crucial to provide high level of thermal comfort towards human beings

Relationship between types of organization with the quality of soft-scape construction work in Malaysia

This paper intends to focus on the relationship between types of organisations with the issues of quality of soft-scape construction work. The types of organizations are consultant, contractor, developer, government agency, and educational institution. This research will be using the mix method approach. Chi-square analysis was also performed to find the significant level of relationship between the respondents. Respondents of the survey are among Landscape Architects listed in ILAM directory. The study managed to conduct the questionnaire on 225 persons. This paper was identified the significant difference of the respondents from different type of organisations with the issues of soft-scape construction quality

Environmental atitudes of urban dwellers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Environmental concern on climate change have greater impact to urban health around the globe. Temperature risk, water quality status and air pollution are major threat for living environment including urban biodiversity. Thus, the aim of the paper are to investigate environmental attitude among people in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. There are five urban parks around Kuala Lumpur have been selected as case studies and 380 respondents have been participated in the survey questionnaire. Data gathered under the demographic section range of age, gender, ethnicity, levels of education, and income. New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) have been adopted as theory underpinning to identify public concerns. The result have presented that there are significant different among people’s between three ethnicity consist of Malay, Chinese and Indian, six different levels of education and six different income groups. Malays are majorities ethnic and have more attached to nature since childhood and play a vital rules in environmental education. Meanwhile, young generation have greater space in exposure them to importance of protecting earth every in daily routine. Finally, high income level could contribute social, environment and economic benefit opportunities to the societies. Therefore, urban biodiversity policies should focus of these three major elements in promoting environmental concern with in urban dwellers in Kuala Lumpur. Keywords : New Ecological Paradigm, Environmental Attitude, climate change and Urban biodiversit

Critical Success Factor (CSF) of Tree Planting in Malaysia

Specific critical success factor (CSF) assessment element for tree planting should be produced to monitor construction work in Malaysia. This paper prepared to develop critical success factor for tree planting works in Malaysia. In this study, there were 225 Landscape Architect respondents successfully responded to the survey conducted. The outcome of this paper began with the assessment elements that had to be rated by respondents according to their general assumption on the critical level of each element. Finally, this research establishes a set of critical success factor of tree planting. Keywords: Critical Success Factor; tree planting; quality, construction eISSN 2398-4279 © 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.&nbsp

Relationship between Types of Organization with the Quality of Soft-scape Construction Work in Malaysia

This paper intends to focus on the relationship between types of organisations with the issues of quality of soft-scape construction work. The types of organizations are consultant, contractor, developer, government agency, and educational institution. This research will be using the mix method approach. Chi-square analysis was also performed to find the significant level of relationship between the respondents. Respondents of the survey are among Landscape Architects listed in ILAM directory. The study managed to conduct the questionnaire on 225 persons. This paper was identified the significant difference of the respondents from different type of organisations with the issues of soft-scape construction quality.Keywords: Quality Standard; Soft-scape Construction; Organization.eISSN 2398-4279 © 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.