Investigating Knowledge Competence Of Civil Engineers In Malaysia

The competence of workers has always been regarded as the cornerstone of high performance and productivity of organisations, be it in the public or private sectors. It is generally accepted that competent workers significantly add values to their respective organisations. One of the key elements of competence of employees is knowledge competence. In the civil engineering field, knowledge competence is made of by a number of components, namely, engineering knowledge, engineering management knowledge, self-development knowledge, communication knowledge, IT knowledge, finance knowledge and legal knowledge. Without doubt, a civil engineer must possess these subject matters before he can be considered as a competent civil engineer. Nevertheless, no study had previously been conducted to determine such qualities. To fill this research gap, there is a need to develop a model of knowledge competence for civil engineers in the Malaysian context. To drive the research forward, the following objectives are utilise: to identify the knowledge competence components, knowledge competence components level, relationship between the knowledge competence components and the knowledge competence of civil engineers and to develop a framework of knowledge competence for civil engineers. A number of hypotheses have also been used to understand the relationships between knowledge competence requirements and knowledge competency of civil engineers

Research on Project Management System in the Delivery of Green Development from Stakeholders Perspective

While green development has been spread largely in construction industry in Malaysia, there is still gap in integration of green development and project management. It is undeniable that many people in the industry are alert to this green technology. However, some of them are refused to apply green building technologies due to several reasons. Green concept is practically not accepted widely in industry as many developers are refuse to apply it in their projects. Hence, the aim of this study is to determine the green practices that need to be done and added in traditional project management from stakeholder perception so it will speed up their acceptance of green technology in construction industry. Method used in determining the practices and analyze the result is the 5-point Likert scale and SPSS software. The result show that only 48 practices in all construction phase are accepted to be implement in green project by all stakeholders. This research also proposed a green project management framework that are realistic and practicable by taking into consideration of stakeholders’ perspective

The Advantages, Potentials And Safety Of Vtol Suborbital Space Tourism Operations

Suborbital space tourism offers short-time zero gravity and Earth view from space to its customers,and a package that can offer the longest duration of zero-gravity and the most exciting Earth view from space to its customer can be considered a better one than the others

The Building Suitability and an Existing Facility on Bus Station in Northern Malaysia

Northern Malaysia is growing rapidly leads to an increased demand for public transport facilities.However, realizing that the public facility provided still lack in good condition and not convenient forall at the most public bus station in Northern Malaysia. Hence, this study analyses the priority of thecharacteristics of the facilities at the public bus station in Northern Malaysia to ensure the publicfacilities provided is meet the needs of all. The result shows that the need to make an improvement totransform the public bus station toward the integrated terminal. This research also proposed the rightauthority sets the standard rule for designing the public facilities to enhance the building based on thedisabled friendly facility and design

Public Perception on Existing Building and Facilities at Public Market in Northern Region of Malaysia

Public market have been known for many centuries. They have been an important place and source ofdaily needs, commence and social part for over 6000 years ago. From community to anothercommunity public markets expands to become more function effectively as they exist because they servethe needs, while some public markets has changed in meaning over time and still different from placeto place. Malaysia is one of the developing country, as it should not be ignored to plan a good buildingconstruction as well as the facilities management at public markets. The planning of building andfacilities management must be maintain to ensure that the surrounding of the buildings is always in agood quality, safe and healthy to all occupants or visitors of the buildings. To ensure that the facilitiesand the existing building at public markets operated smoothly, all the party involved must be awareand play the important role to sustain the characteristics of the facilities. Hence, this research believesthat, with the improvement of facilities can be completely transformed into viable and social interactiveplaces

Identification of project cultural factors affecting the performance of UAE construction projects

The cultural impact of project management has recently attracted a lot of interest from academics, as it has quite a significant impact on project success or failure. In the construction industry, few studies have been conducted on the relationship between project organizational culture and performance from the perspective of work practices at the project level. This study's aim is to identify the cultural factors affecting the performance of UAE construction projects by using a mixed-methods approach. Data collection was based on a detailed analysis of the literature and the experiences of key project participants who were engaged in UAE construction projects. SPSS software was used to look at data from 124 recently completed projects in the UAE construction industry. This study identified eight cultural factors positively affecting the performance of UAE construction projects, which are client commitment, consultant commitment, contractor commitment, goal alignment and reliance, cooperative orientation, empowerment orientation, worker orientation, and authority. The contractor commitment-related factors have the most effect on overall project performance, while the authority-related factors were ranked as having the least effect. The study's findings help professionals in the construction industry implement practices that improve project cultures, which can enhance project performance and success