Hamizah Liyana Tajul Ariffin

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia | UTM · Department of Quantity Surveying

Prefabricated construction has been promoted as an innovative process in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry to reduce construction time and waste. Despite its capability, the adoption of prefabricated construction in Malaysia remains low due to the fragmented delivery processes among a large number of project stakeholder...

In construction industry, almost every construction project has to deal with construction contract, due to the project complexity and high financial risk. The contracts are developed and published by various associations and professional bodies and are widely used in the construction industry. Contract conditions are intended to specify the duties...

Building Information Modelling (BIM) transforms the construction industry and one of the major hindrances highlighted is a lack of BIM standard form of contract. The consequence thereof, there is no standard clause which laid down the provision for variation order in a project which adopt BIM. This may lead to a contractual risk in running a BIM en...

The fundamental activities carried out by a contractor are estimating and submitting pricing proposal, therefore contractors are required to make decision during pricing of Bills of Quantities (BQ) regarding the most suitable pricing strategies to be applied. Despite numerous of study has been carried out to identify effective pricing strategies to...

The construction site is in a constant state of fluidity. This constant change presents challenges for construction players who must be able to foresee hazardous conditions before they cause injuries or fatalities on the construction site. Nowadays, technology continuously improves the way the construction industry works. In line with the industria...

Lack of designer’s knowledge of construction safety risks and HSE personnel’s knowledge of structural designs and means and methods of construction have been highlighted as significant barriers to the implementation of design for construction safety. These barriers often result in poor collaboration among designers and HSE personnel in addressing s...

The high incidents number of injuries and fatality rates in the construction industry are generally due to hazards on site. Early intervention of hazards could lead to safer construction processes. The Safety by Design (SbD) is a process that identifies hazard and assesses risks early in the project design stage, in comparison to during the constru...

The accident occurred in the construction industry is reportedly the third-highest after manufacturing and agriculture industry. The percentage of accident cases and fatality ratios in the Malaysian construction industry are getting larger and gradually increasing each year. This data indicates that the safety and health performance in the Malaysia...

Engineering, Procurement, and Construction Contract is a project delivery method in the oil and gas industry. However, the complexity of Engineering, Procurement and Construction projects inevitably leads to issues of project management, risk and technical to occur. Therefore, oil and gas players demand a course of action in minimizing the issues a...

The Building Information Modelling (BIM) implementation is to create a centralised knowledge sharing resource that contains all the necessary design and operational information about the project. BIM is a collaborative approach and integrated project delivery to design and delivery embraced by various construction teams in the construction projects...

Malaysia is making an aggressive effort of transformation to become a fully developed country. As one of the pillars for transformation, the construction industry has been undergoing a major reform with regard to the traditional method of construction. In recent years, the Industrialised Building System (IBS) has been promoted extensively with the...

Conditional payment such as “pay when paid” or “pay if paid” can create negative chain effect on the parties in construction projects, resulting in delay on the completion of a project, adversarialism and may affect a contractor’s reputation. Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC) has launched a standard form of contract which is Constructio...

Contractors are the main players in construction industry. Appropriate selection of contractor is crucial in determining the future perfor-mance of a project in any case. Sometimes this selection procedure is performed without proper consideration and deliberate methodolo-gy that it merits, thus bringing negative outcomes. This paper proposes a per...

Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) is a new concept of project delivery which utilizes the advantages of BIM. A Traditional Procurement System has segregation in the process and might lead to certain limitations from the aspect of integration and collaboration. An early Contractor involvement would encourage collaboration between the Project Teams....

Disputes are common problems in the construction industry. The unclear contract underlines in most practiced procurement systems lead to various disputes among stakeholders. In order to minimise the problem, it is interesting to identify the disputes and conflict arises in the industry. This paper explore the pattern of construction disputes occurr...

Disputes are common problems in the construction industry. The unclear contract underlines in most practiced procurement systems lead to various disputes among stakeholders. In order to minimise the problem, it is interesting to identify the disputes and conflict arises in the industry. This paper explore the pattern of construction disputes occurr...

The selection of the procurement system leading to the decision of contractual agreement to be adopted has been a popular research focus over the last two decades. Different kind of disputes concerning construction contracts have occurred and becoming increasingly common. However, it was also evident that current research in the construction contra...