Muhamad Hanafi Rahmat

• Tun Hussein Onn University of Malaysia

Climate change may lead to more intense sunlight in tropical regions, potentially increasing the daylight available for buildings. While this can enhance natural lighting inside buildings, it may also exacerbate issues such as glare and overheating if not properly managed through shading devices and glazing treatments. Nevertheless, common strategi...

It is believed that some building construction contractors are less aware of the safety and health aspects and are more likely to pursue profits over the safety and health of workers and people living near the construction site. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the implementation of safety and health practices by building contractors in Jo...

In the context of a multi-racial country consisting of Malays, Chinese, and Indians as the main majority, the search for the value of national architectural identity is important in highlighting racial harmony. Therefore, establishing the national architectural identity framework is necessary to ensure this can be realized. This paper focuses on th...

This work is licensed under CC BY 4.0 National identity is defined as a sense of belonging or ownership to a country or a nation related to the idea of unity for a country, represented by recognizing similarities in tradition, culture, language, and political ideology. Understanding national identity in architecture will direct us to study its role...

In several countries in the world, work-related stresses faced among the professionals in the construction industry came together with the significantly unidentified symptoms and factors. Occupational stress could negatively affect the mental, physical, and behavior of an individual. The factors of work-related stress commonly caused by high job de...

Statistics as evidence reported by the Department of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) shows that the construction sector recorded the highest rate of deaths compared to other sectors such as manufacturing and agriculture. It is suggested that early implementation on safety and health element in the construction project by the responsible parti...

The Malaysian construction industry has been long categorized as one of the riskiest industries due to the high number of accidents that happened at construction sites. The poor safety performance in the construction industry has caused several drawbacks and failures in the aspects of project performance, cost, project completion time, and producti...

Pembangunan rekabentuk yang tidak mencerminkan kebudayaan Malaysia telah mencetus paradigma pemikiran bagi mencipta suatu karekter rekabentuk yang mencerminkan identiti Malaysia sebagai sebuah negara yang kaya dengan budaya. Wacana pembangunan identiti seni bina nasional ini telah mula dibicarakan seawal tahun 1950-an melalui penerbitan yang bertem...

This paper presents a study on the effectiveness of safety incentive programs on construction sites in Klang Valley, Malaysia. Five construction projects that implemented safety incentive program were selected as case studies for this research. Interviews with the safety personnel for each project were conducted. The findings show that all selected...

The construction industry is known as a hazardous industry, which has been overwhelmed with accidents for a long time. One of the new strategies to reduce the number of accident in Malaysia is through emphasizing the safety responsibility on the parties involved during the design stage. This study investigated the confidence level of designing-for-...

Industrialised Building System (IBS) is a system where buildings are reduced to a number of common parts, where most of it can be prefabricated in long term production runs, frequently away from the construction site. Currently, Malaysian government has strongly supported the usage of IBS in construction industry due to its quality assurance, short...

In establishing a good indoor thermal condition, air movement is one of the important parameter to be considered to provide indoor fresh air for occupants. Due to the public awareness on environment impact, people has been increasingly attentive to passive design in achieving good condition of indoor building ventilation. Throughout case studies, s...

Time and cost overruns have become one prominent issue for most construction projects around the world. Project costing and timeframe extension had been causing a lot of wastage and loss of opportunity for many parties involved. Therefore, this research was carried out to investigate the factors influencing time and cost overruns for high-rise cons...

Air is the most important living resource in life. Contaminated air could adversely affect human health and the environment, especially during the monsoon season. Contamination occurs as a result of human action and haze. There are several pollutants present in the air where one of them is PM10. Secondary data was obtained from the Department of En...

Malaysia is one of the largest palm oil producer, contributing approximately 50% of the world palm oil production. In the process of palm oil extraction, materials such as Palm Kernel Ash (PKA) are produced annually and increasingly becoming a threat to the environment. Reuse of such wastes as sustainable construction not only solve to pollution pr...

Noise pollution has become one of the significant world problems along with air pollution and water pollution. Previous research had found that the ability to find quiet times and places are essential to support knowledge work. The main source of noise pollution in the educational institution are traffic noise, community noise and industrial noise....

Green roof is a system that had been identified as a medium that is able to reduce the thermal temperature of a building. It is an efficient way of reducing heat especially for hot climate countries like Malaysia. This study was conducted to assess the ability and the effectiveness of green roof in controlling the temperature of a building and also...

At present, concepts based on sustainable technology are widespread. The use of sustainable materials and integrated building structure design has begun to grow rapidly. The implementation of sustainable activities also creates competition among players in the construction sector. However, in the pursuit of sophisticated and comfortable civilizatio...

Mosque has gone through a long and complex development throughout the Muslim's history which involved the interrelation between its functions and its design. During the process, many aspects of its design were reconfigured including the female facilities in the mosque. In Malaysia, there is a progressive movement to transform the roles and function...

Malaysia considers the construction industry as one of the main contributors to its Gross Domestic Product (GDP). However, there are some unresolved issues arising from the ongoing and widespread adoption of the conventional method of construction such as the resultant fragmentation of the industry itself; delays in production and delivery time of...