Ahmad Rizal Alias

• Senior Lecturer at Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al Sultan Abdullah

Rework in Building Information Modelling (BIM)-based construction projects have considerable implications for project timelines, costs, and efficiency. Despite the acknowledged potential of BIM, rework remains a significant and persistent issue, necessitating urgent attention. This study aims to model the relationship between BIM's key effect on re...

The adoption of smart technology in Building Information Modelling (BIM)-based construction projects faces significant challenges and opportunities. Concerns about job displacement and privacy invasion contrast with the potential for enhanced environmental and societal benefits. This study aims to identify the relationship between the key challenge...

Purpose This study aims to analyze the critical factors affecting workplace well-being at construction sites across countries with different income levels. Accordingly, this study’s objectives are to identify: critical factors affecting workplace well-being at construction sites in low-, lower-middle-, upper-middle- and high-income countries, overl...

Despite the high demands of infrastructures, circular economy (CE) is among the best solution that seeks holistic sustainability goals through a zero-waste culture and to boost economic growth by investing in eco-innovations, secondary raw materials, recycling processes, and industrial symbiosis. Therefore, this study aims to identify the barriers...

Working at construction sites can harm individuals’ health and well-being. However, stakeholders often focus on improving health while discounting well-being. Establishing a better workplace environment can improve workplace well-being. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the factors influencing workplace well-being in infrastructure construc...

Purpose This study aims to develop workplace well-being indexes for construction sites of different project types (infrastructure, high-rise and low-rise). Accordingly, the study objectives are to identify the critical factors that affect workplace well-being at construction sites, compare the critical factors between different project types, categ...

Purpose This study aims to develop an interrelation model between critical parameters for assessing the construction readiness (CR) of abandoned housing projects, using Malaysia as a case study. To achieve that aim, the study objectives are to (1) identify critical parameters for assessing the CR of abandoned housing projects; (2) develop underlyin...

Building Information Modelling (BIM) is known as one of the digital tools that can transform and improve the construction industry in terms of project organization and execution. However, with the emergence of new BIM technology in the construction industry, trust issues arise among team members involved in construction projects. The lack of unders...

A good workplace well-being environment can increase employee resilience, work engagement, project performance, and productivity, as well as reduce sick days. Research suggests that physical, psychological, and social factors are the underlying factors for a good workplace well-being However, the underlying factors for workplace well-being at const...

The comfort and productivity of workers may be affected differently by the indoor air quality (IAQ) and related risk factors at the office and at home. Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) is one of the health issues usually faced by workers. SBS is generally associated with the time spent in a building, IAQ, and other related risk factors. The study revie...

Food waste is one of the critical issues which has been discussed in many countries including Malaysia. Apart from that, about 50% of food waste usually being dumped at landfill sites and incinerators which root to more problems towards the environment, economic and society. In this research, Taman Pura Kencana, Johor was chosen to identify the ave...

This study explores the factors affecting workplace well-being in building construction projects. The objectives of this study are (1) to investigate the critical factors for workplace well-being in building construction projects, (2) to compare the critical factors between large enterprises (LEs) and small-medium enterprises (SMEs), and (3) to com...

Nowadays, model-based technologies have been developed to change the conventional manual progress in measuring progress and productivity in projects management. However, the current literature lacks the proper strategies in developing a model-based. This study provides the potential strategy to measure progress using model-based technology. A semi-...

Household formation trend is closely linked with the numbers of population. Meanwhile, the formation of households is largely influenced by the composition of the adult population that are measured by headship rate. This paper attempts to project headship rate which acts as a main predictor in determine potential housing demands. Population and Hou...

In construction sector TQM can be termed as a philosophy which guides construction professionals on the proper execution of construction projects in terms of quality. The aim of this paper is to discuss on quality management practice in construction sector. This paper evaluated five previous researches and the findings were discussed to find a conc...

Increasing population and economy status have contributed to the increasing volume of solid wastes produced in Malaysia and it creates problems on the existing solid waste management system. Ineffective waste management system was one of the issues that often discussed. The purpose of this study was to suggest the best method for managing food wast...

Housing is one of the basic needs for human being. In Malaysia, there are most low cost and low medium cost houses being constructed due to high demand which in line with the fourth strategic objective outlined in the 10th Malaysia plan. The total number of population in Malaysia has increased by 0.17% from 17,563,420 in year 1991 to 27,565,821 in...

Headship rate method is used to forecast population for housing demand. This paper presents the application of the method for forecasting population in Johor Bahru metropolitan city in Malaysia. Data used in the projection was based on census data of Johor Bahru provided by Department of Statistic Malaysia for the period of three years. Headship ra...

Forecasting accuracy is a primary criterion in selecting appropriate method of prediction. Even though there are various methods of forecasting however not all of these methods are able to predict with good accuracy. This paper presents an evaluation of two methods of population forecasting for housing demand. These methods are Autoregressive Integ...