Correlation Analysis of Building Performance and Occupant’s Satisfaction via Post Occupancy Evaluation for Malaysia’s Public Buildings

The purpose of a building is to provide shelter for activities that carried out by the building users. The question is, does the facilities in the building perform well and appropriate to its use? The needs of occupants are affected by the building performance and on occupants’ evaluation of the buildings. Hence, Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE) is introduced to empower the occupants’ opinion as the benchmark of building performance evaluation. POE comprises as one of the technique that is used to evaluate whether a building meets the user’s requirement. The broad aim of this paper is to determine the correlation of public buildings and occupant’s satisfaction; in order to seek possible opportunities for government involvement (as the building owner) and the public (as the user) to evaluate the performance criteria. By using a proposed framework of POE, the study has revealed that 74% of the aspects in building performance are in high correlation with the occupants’ satisfaction. The study concludes that the application of POE is effective and beneficial to be used by the public sector in evaluating the performance of public buildings in Malaysia.Post occupancy evaluation; Public buildings; Building performance; occupants’ satisfaction; Correlation analysis

Urban sprawl and its financial cost: - A conceptual framework

Urban sprawl has been recognized as an urban expansion which leads to undesirable impacts in terms of sacrifice of farmland and loss of amenity benefits from open space on the urban fringe.Integral to the negative impacts of sprawl is the higher financial costs that have to be incurred mainly through expenses related to the physical development in an unplanned manner.A framework of understanding sprawl and its financial cost in a developing country’s context namely Malaysia is proposed based on four (4) strategic steps namely, sprawl identification, measurement, decision and financial analysis utilizing the differential costs approach by comparing financial costs of development under unplanned sprawl and a planned strategy. The framework would provide a structured insight into quantifying the financial costs of sprawl to guide economists and urban planners in making a decision pertaining to urban development

How Can Malaysian Public Universities Make The Most of Their Campus Real Estate? – A Conceptual Framework for Managing Corporate Real Estate

Most university campus buildings have low occupancy rates and high operating and maintenance costs because they are historically designed to fulfil the needs of specific faculties without any utility value. Real estate resources in universities tend to be undermanaged and misunderstood as overhead costs by top-level management. The problems are prevailing within Malaysian public universities. Therefore, it is critical to take a more integrated corporate real estate management (CREM) approach, which is appropriate for public institutions with limited autonomy and strict regulatory oversight. This paper aims to determine key themes of CRE strategies and critical components of CREM alignment for successful implementation within an organisation. A comprehensive literature review was done on CREM at higher education institutions between 1990 and 2021. Then, a summary of several important publications was provided. The discussion of several approaches for coordinating CRE and organisational strategies followed. Because there is still a disconnect between the theoretical framework and the real-world implementations by educational administrators, the gap in Malaysia concerning CREM past research was then discovered. The article concludes by recommending a conceptual framework for CREM implementation in public universities in Malaysia that incorporates CRE strategies, alignment, and portfolio management. In order to enjoy a stream of revenues and support their core business operations, public universities can integrate CREM knowledge while managing their properties and resources. The conceptual framework promotes the overall effectiveness of investment in Malaysian higher education and offers helpful information for public institutions and government organisations involved in education

Building Information Modeling (BIM): A New Paradigm for Quality of Life Within Architectural, Engineering and Construction (AEC) Industry

AbstractThe adoption of Building Information Modeling (BIM) constitutes a paradigm shift in the architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) industry. Broader BIM adoption will transform construction processes to achieve greater efficiency to improve the quality of life (QOL) of construction stakeholders. This paper seeks to identify determinant factors and implementation gaps of BIM in the AEC industry. A case study was conducted through a preliminary workshop organised by CIDB among the five potential stakeholders: Public Private Partnership (PPP) Unit (UKAS), JARING, eMOST/UMP, Greenwave Synergy (GWS) and CIDB eConstruct (EC) of the AEC industry in Malaysia. The findings suggest various determining factors and gaps existed at the national and organisational levels. Finally, the workshop suggested an ‘affordable BIM concept’ with ‘pay-per-use or periodical license’ method to be adopted for SMEs contractors

The Values of Parks to the House Residents

AbstractThe focus of this paper is to examine the significance of a park to the house residents. The methods used in this study include interviews with the developer and a survey administered to the residents living near the park. The main findings gathered from the survey reveal that five most important ‘park-related factors’ to house buyers are (i) good park elements, (ii) conceptual or design of the park, (iii) nearness to the park, (iv) existence of a view to the park, and (v) active area of the park facing the house

Disaster Resilience and Human Behavior: Hospital Buildings in Malaysia

 Hospitals are themselves vulnerable to numerous types of disasters and can get damaged risking the lives of human being. To a certain extent, despite of hard resilience (structural and non-structural), human behavior is one of the contributing factors affecting the hospital’s capability in achieving disaster resilience. Hence, the objectives of the paper are twofold: to explore human weaknesses; and to investigate strategies for achieving disaster resilience for existing public hospitals. Qualitative research techniques were employed in the form of focus group approach. The findings revealed that six human weaknesses and five strategies have been asserted by the respondents as of utmost critical.© 2016. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. 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.Keywords: Disaster Resilience; hard and soft resilience; hospital; human behaviou

Characteristic qualities affecting landed house prices

The research was conducted to find the characteristics quality of houses in Malaysia. The aim of this research was to produce the ranking characteristics of house qualities and determining its weightages. The methodology used in this research was primarily by using the Delphi Method to ascertain characteristics quality and also Analytical Hierarchy Process to determine the ranking of the characteristics quality. Data collection gathered through a structured questionnaire that incorporates the element of Saaty’s Scale using variables outlined from review and interview. A theoretical framework of the research was established from this that will lead to future research model

Client Governing Success Criteria in Building Information Modelling (BIM)-Based Projects

Building Information Modeling (BIM), also known as n-D Modeling is a revolutionary development in the Architecture-Engineering-Construction (AEC) industry that consists of both technology and process. BIM helps project stakeholders in communicating complex, technical and difficult to visualise project elements that not easily explained. Nevertheless, there is a lack of overall governance within the current projects environment. A successful BIM implementation needs the involvement of behavioural, cultural and technological changes to transform the organisation into BIM-based projects through adopting new processes and standards. Thus, it is inevitable to develop a governance solution to facilitate BIM adoption in a collaborative working environment across project lifecycle. This paper discusses a success measure of BIM-based projects in Malaysia. The methodology is based on a qualitative research technique and the method is through a well-planned brainstorming workshop. All data were analysed using Atlas t.i. version 8. The findings revealed that four (4) success measures of BIM-based projects are: socio-organisational, legal, technical, and financial. It is anticipated that the findings reported in this paper could provide an insight for future strategies and guidelines for the development of BIM projects in Malaysia. BIM governance framework proves to be valuable for project stakeholders in managing collective efforts to standardise construction processes

Achieving Sustainable Value Planning For Malaysian Public Projects

Sustainability is the central development issue in the modern economy. Through sustainable development, quality of life can be improved or maintained over time. Since Malaysia is targeting to become a high-income nation by the year 2020, financial investment in public projects should be planned comprehensively so that it will generate immediate and long-term benefits to the country and the people. Within the currently tight financial environment, achieving value for money in public spending is seen as one of the enablers to maintain the right momentum of economic growth. Previous studies have established the importance of integrating sustainability consideration into Value Planning protocol in order to achieve value for money, underpinned by the sustainable development agenda. Despite the establishment of the framework for the integration, the opportunity of such integration within the Malaysian Value Planning protocol for public projects remains unclear. The present state of sustainability consideration within the Value Planning practice should be first evaluated, so that potential interventions to enhance the integration can be introduced. Responding to the gap, this exploratory study was conducted. The data was collected by means of document analysis, interviews and observations; subsequently analysed using the Template Analysis technique. Based on the current practice of Value Planning in Malaysia, ten interventions are proposed to transform the present practice into Sustainable Value Planning. Sustainable Value Planning is seen as a comprehensive concept in achieving value for money in public spending underpinned by the overarching concept of sustainabilit

Tessellation planning: relationships between the physical environment and the neighbourhood / Anniz Fazli Ibrahim Bajunid, Mohamed Yusoff Abbas and Abdul Hadi Nawawi.

The fundamental objective of the national housing agenda is to ensure a better quality of life. The challenge is to develop affordable houses whilst sustaining positive social neighbourhoods. In the western world, research equated the physical environment as a dominant influence on the spatial behaviours of communities. Quality of living in Malaysia is only obtainable to the upper echelons in organic planning of housing. These perceived as successful neighbourhoods such as the cul-de-sac or Tessellation Planning create a relationship between the physical environment and the neighbourhood. This paper initiates a search for such literature and identifies key concepts for further deliberations