Book transit shelter : a method in developing a zero-waste environment and healthy campus community / Muhammad Naim Mahyuddin ...[et al.]

The production of a new book requires raw materials to be extracted from the earth, published, and transported. This process uses enormous amounts of material and energy. One way to save natural resources, protect the environment, and most importantly save money is by reusing items that are utilizable. The Book Transit System is created to minimize the waste of books being thrown away, especially by final semester students of Universiti Teknologi MARA, Perak. In addition, it encourages knowledge-sharing within the community. The book transit system is designed so that it can be attached to almost any solid surface and is user-friendly. While the design of this system is flexible and varies, for the purpose of this study, a Book Transit Shelter has been created. An existing shelter in the campus is utilized where a glass box, complete with steel book lift-up handle is attached to the shelter. Students and/or members of the community who walk by can just drop in any size of book in the glass box. As the glass is transparent, other students are able to have a quick look at the donated books. If they are interested, they can simply lift the handle and pick up the book they want for free. This concept is adapted from the zero-waste concept, but enriched with altruism and green environmental principles

The implementation of corporate social responsibilities (CSR) among G7 contractors in Malaysia / Hamimah Adnan ... [et al.]

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is one of way to encourage among the stakeholders to improve not only the society, but environment and economy of affected people. This paper aims to identify the implementation, challenges and ways to enhance Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) among G7 Contractors registered under the Malaysian Construction Industry Development Board. (CIDB in Malaysia. Quantitative and qualitative methodology were involved which involved questionnaires survey and interviews. Questionnaires were distributed to 150 respondents with 32 replied and 5 interviews were held among the respondents. The findings show that the highest level of CSR implementation is in the relationship with clients and suppliers. Most respondents agreed that the biggest challenges in implementing CSR were lack of support from top management and lack of time. It also showed that most respondents agreed that the ways to enhance the implementation of CSR were the involvement of system of governance transparency with investors and shareholders, application of policy by employees, close relationship with the clients and suppliers, concrete actions towards community and adoption of measures on the environmental impact. It is recommended for the implementation of CSR and ways to overcome the challenges needed to be enhanced to reach the highest level of implementation and every stakeholder needs to act for effective improvement to enhance the implementation

The implementation of corporate social responsibilities (CSR) among G7 contractors in Malaysia / Hamimah Adnan … [et al.]

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is one of way to encourage among the stakeholders to improve not only the society, but environment and economy of affected people. This paper aims to identify the implementation, challenges and ways to enhance Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) among G7 Contractors registered under the Malaysian Construction Industry Development Board. (CIDB in Malaysia. Quantitative and qualitative methodology were involved which involved questionnaires survey and interviews. Questionnaires were distributed to 150 respondents with 32 replied and 5 interviews were held among the respondents. The findings show that the highest level of CSR implementation is in the relationship with clients and suppliers. Most respondents agreed that the biggest challenges in implementing CSR were lack of support from top management and lack of time. It also showed that most respondents agreed that the ways to enhance the implementation of CSR were the involvement of system of governance transparency with investors and shareholders, application of policy by employees, close relationship with the clients and suppliers, concrete actions towards community and adoption of measures on the environmental impact. It is recommended for the implementation of CSR and ways to overcome the challenges needed to be enhanced to reach the highest level of implementation and every stakeholder needs to act for effective improvement to enhance the implementation

Relationship between supply, demand and opportunity of interior designers graduates in Malaysia construction industry

The aim for the paper is to identify the Interior Designer (ID) graduate create by various public universities, demand of their professional services and knowledge and also opportunity in the Malaysia construction industry. The understanding towards the topic is enhanced by questionnaire response method where the related respondents are required to answer a number of questions. The chosen samples for this research are graduates who are currently practice in various ID Consulting Offices and similar. Outcome from the research shown that respondents agreed and there is still a need for improvement. Based on Malaysia cases, it is imperative that the continuance of these ‘SDO’s as the required needs of ID graduates is still below demands