Fire risk assessment of old low-cost residential apartment building ; a perspectives review

This study is to analyse the fire risk assessment for the old low cost high residential building in Malaysia. This research is conducted through reviewing the methods of study, scoping fire risk important aspects, and analysing the information in order to mitigate a way to do fire risk assessments in old low-cost residential apartment in Malaysia supported by the Uniform Building By-Law (UBBL 1984). As an outcome, this paper will be outlining future expectation of elements to be conducted on improving fire safety in old low-cost high rise residential building and updating its characteristics by imparting more efficient fire risk assessment method for a better safety of fire protection in old low-cost high rise residential building in Malaysia

Tipologi bangunan seni bina Melayu moden di Malaysia

Pengadaptasian nilai reka bentuk seni bina Melayu tradisional kepada bangunan moden telah diwartakan sebagai salah satu jalan di dalam membina bahasa identiti seni bina kebangsaan seperti yang telah dinyatakan di dalam ‘Seminar Ke Arah Identiti Kebangsaan Dalam Seni Bina’ pada tahun 1981. Sungguhpun mendapat galakan daripada kerajaan, jumlah pembangunan reka bentuk bangunan baru yang mengadaptasi nilai warisan seni bina Melayu tradisional masih kecil, malah daripada jumlah yang kecil ini, hanya segelintir daripadanya diklasifikasi mempunyai kualiti reka bentuk yang baik. Di dalam kajian ini, penilaian dan klasifikasi dilaksanakan terhadap 12 buah bangunan seni bina Melayu moden di Malaysia; iaitu merujuk kepada bangunan moden di Malaysia yang direka bentuk dengan mengadaptasi nilai dan karakteristik yang wujud dalam bahasa seni bina Melayu tradisional dan juga warisan kesenian dan kebudayaan Melayu. Melaluinya, tipologi bangunan seni bina melayu moden dibentuk dari kerangka seni bina moden klasikal di Barat, di mana kesemua 12 buah bangunan ini telah diklasifikasi mengikut kerangka ini. Kajian ini diharap akan dapat memberi impak di dalam merevolusi pemikiran seni bina Melayu moden di masa akan datang, seterusnya menjadi jambatan kepada pembangunan identiti seni bina nasional yang lebih mapan dan komprehensif

The study of fire safety for multi-storey container hotel: a case study in Muar PPT hotel

Recent trends show diversified usage of container that usually intended as mobile transportation case for trading industry and now applied as building materials especially for commercial building such as hotel. However, as new material, it should comply with basic fire safety requirement which spelled out in the Uniform Building By-Laws (UBBL) 1984. In the construction laws of a building in Malaysia, the characteristics of building must comply with the requirement and regulations before it is being approved in the Certificate of Completion and Compliance (CCC). Thus, this study is focusing on the container materials and its compliance of fire safety requirements and strategies for multi-storey container hotel building. Literature review and case study are used in order to get the information and to compare the ability of the materials and construction to comply with UBBL 1984 in terms of passive design. The results of the evaluation show the possibilities of Multi-Storey Container Hotel to be built and used complied with passive fire safety requirement

Tipologi bangunan seni bina Melayu moden di Malaysia

Pengadaptasian nilai rekabentuk seni bina Melayu tradisional kepada bangunan moden telah diwartakan sebagai salah satu jalan di dalam membina bahasa identiti seni bina kebangsaan seperti yang telah dinyatakan di dalam ‘Seminar Ke Arah Identiti Kebangsaan Dalam Seni Bina' pada tahun 1981. Sungguhpun mendapat galakan daripada kerajaan, jumlah pembangunan rekabentuk bangunan baru yang mengadaptasi nilai warisan seni bina Melayu tradisional masih kecil, malah daripada jumlah yang kecil ini, hanya segelintir daripadanya diklasifikasi mempunyai kualiti rekabentuk yang baik. Di dalam kajian ini, penilaian dan klasifikasi dilaksanakan terhadap 12 buah bangunan seni bina Melayu Moden di Malaysia; iaitu merujuk kepada bangunan moden di Malaysia yang direkabentuk dengan mengadaptasi nilai dan karakteristik yang wujud dalam bahasa senibina Melayu tradisional dan juga warisan kesenian dan kebudayaan Melayu. Melaluinya, tipologi bangunan seni bina melayu moden dibentuk dari kerangka seni bina moden klasikal di Barat, di mana kesemua 12 buah bangunan ini telah diklasifikasi mengikut kerangka ini. Kajian ini diharap akan dapat memberi impak di dalam merevolusi pemikiran seni bina Melayu moden di masa akan datang, seterusnya menjadi jambatan kepada pembangunan identiti seni bina nasional yang lebih mapan dan komprehensif

Health-status outcomes with invasive or conservative care in coronary disease

BACKGROUND In the ISCHEMIA trial, an invasive strategy with angiographic assessment and revascularization did not reduce clinical events among patients with stable ischemic heart disease and moderate or severe ischemia. A secondary objective of the trial was to assess angina-related health status among these patients. METHODS We assessed angina-related symptoms, function, and quality of life with the Seattle Angina Questionnaire (SAQ) at randomization, at months 1.5, 3, and 6, and every 6 months thereafter in participants who had been randomly assigned to an invasive treatment strategy (2295 participants) or a conservative strategy (2322). Mixed-effects cumulative probability models within a Bayesian framework were used to estimate differences between the treatment groups. The primary outcome of this health-status analysis was the SAQ summary score (scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating better health status). All analyses were performed in the overall population and according to baseline angina frequency. RESULTS At baseline, 35% of patients reported having no angina in the previous month. SAQ summary scores increased in both treatment groups, with increases at 3, 12, and 36 months that were 4.1 points (95% credible interval, 3.2 to 5.0), 4.2 points (95% credible interval, 3.3 to 5.1), and 2.9 points (95% credible interval, 2.2 to 3.7) higher with the invasive strategy than with the conservative strategy. Differences were larger among participants who had more frequent angina at baseline (8.5 vs. 0.1 points at 3 months and 5.3 vs. 1.2 points at 36 months among participants with daily or weekly angina as compared with no angina). CONCLUSIONS In the overall trial population with moderate or severe ischemia, which included 35% of participants without angina at baseline, patients randomly assigned to the invasive strategy had greater improvement in angina-related health status than those assigned to the conservative strategy. The modest mean differences favoring the invasive strategy in the overall group reflected minimal differences among asymptomatic patients and larger differences among patients who had had angina at baseline

Initial invasive or conservative strategy for stable coronary disease

BACKGROUND Among patients with stable coronary disease and moderate or severe ischemia, whether clinical outcomes are better in those who receive an invasive intervention plus medical therapy than in those who receive medical therapy alone is uncertain. METHODS We randomly assigned 5179 patients with moderate or severe ischemia to an initial invasive strategy (angiography and revascularization when feasible) and medical therapy or to an initial conservative strategy of medical therapy alone and angiography if medical therapy failed. The primary outcome was a composite of death from cardiovascular causes, myocardial infarction, or hospitalization for unstable angina, heart failure, or resuscitated cardiac arrest. A key secondary outcome was death from cardiovascular causes or myocardial infarction. RESULTS Over a median of 3.2 years, 318 primary outcome events occurred in the invasive-strategy group and 352 occurred in the conservative-strategy group. At 6 months, the cumulative event rate was 5.3% in the invasive-strategy group and 3.4% in the conservative-strategy group (difference, 1.9 percentage points; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.8 to 3.0); at 5 years, the cumulative event rate was 16.4% and 18.2%, respectively (difference, 121.8 percentage points; 95% CI, 124.7 to 1.0). Results were similar with respect to the key secondary outcome. The incidence of the primary outcome was sensitive to the definition of myocardial infarction; a secondary analysis yielded more procedural myocardial infarctions of uncertain clinical importance. There were 145 deaths in the invasive-strategy group and 144 deaths in the conservative-strategy group (hazard ratio, 1.05; 95% CI, 0.83 to 1.32). CONCLUSIONS Among patients with stable coronary disease and moderate or severe ischemia, we did not find evidence that an initial invasive strategy, as compared with an initial conservative strategy, reduced the risk of ischemic cardiovascular events or death from any cause over a median of 3.2 years. The trial findings were sensitive to the definition of myocardial infarction that was used