Muhammad Saiful Islam- PhD in Construction and Project Management
- Professor at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology
Muhammad Saiful Islam
- PhD in Construction and Project Management
- Professor at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology
Teaching and research in the field of construction and project management.
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Introduction
Dr. Muhammad Saiful Islam has earned a PhD degree in Construction and Project Management from the Queensland University of Technology in 2019. He has an MSc degree in Construction Engineering and Management from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia and a BSc degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh. He has been working as a faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering Department of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh since June 2007. Dr. Islam does research in Construction Engineering and Project Management with particular attention in project risk and uncertainty management, project time, and cost management.
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February 2015 - present
September 2012 - July 2014
March 2017 - September 2017
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Publications (58)
This study aims to investigate the effects of coercive, mimetic, and 4 normative pressures on the awareness, adoption, training, 7 visualization, and productivity of building information modeling (BIM) in the construction industry in the Middle East and North African 8 (MENA) region, focusing on its impact on sustainable performance. Employing a qu...
This study aims to investigate the effects of coercive, mimetic, and normative pressures on the awareness, adoption, training,
visualization, and productivity of building information modeling (BIM) in the construction industry in the Middle East and North African (MENA) region, focusing on its impact on sustainable performance. Employing a quantita...
Cost estimation is essential and one of the most challenging tasks in construction projects. In this field, inaccurate cost estimation and subsequent budget failures are common. Therefore, this study aims to develop a construction cost estimation model for residential buildings using real-life cost data sets collected from Bangladesh. Accordingly,...
To improve a building's performance, it is essential to critically evaluate the common structural component failures and damages encountered by construction professionals throughout a building’s service life. This study aims to identify and prioritize key building components, as well as critical defects and their underlying causes, in construction...
This study investigated the myriad risk factors contributing to cost overruns in healthcare construction projects. It determined the impact of managerial, financial, workerpower, and environmental considerations, focusing on the intricacies of healthcare facilities. By employing a modified fuzzy group decision-making approach (MFGDMA), the research...
The COVID-19 pandemic has struck the construction industry gravely. Accordingly, numerous studies reported the impact of COVID-19 on various aspects of the construction industry and projects. However, there exists no framework that can guide the evaluation of holistic impact of COVID-19 on a construction project specifically for developing countrie...
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Consideration is being given to extending the life of Power Station A (PSA), Perth in Western Australia, for continued operation beyond its original design life of 30 years equating to 2032, until 2038 or beyond. This study aims to assess the remnant life of the PSA asset and confirm the feasibility of a life extension from the original retirement...
Conventional wastewater treatment plant (CWTP) construction and operation are challenging, and identifying critical factors is a foremost task in its initial stage. This study aims to evaluate the critical factors considering expert judgment-based data so that field professionals can address them on a priority basis in CWTP design, construction, an...
Purpose
Power plant projects are very complex and encounter serious cost overruns worldwide. Their cost overrun risks are not independent but interrelated in many cases, having structural relationships among each other. The purpose of this study is, therefore, to establish the complex structural relationships of risks involved.
Design/methodology/...
Construction nonconformity assessment of buildings is critical to ensure the anticipated quality and living safety for their future occupants. Previous studies have paid less attention to identifying and analyzing building construction nonconformities (BCNs) in the design and construction (D&C) phases considering expert judgments, which are critiqu...
Realistic budgeting for complex power plant projects is important for informed investment decisions and avoiding frequent cost overruns. Comparative cost analysis thus provides significant insights for future projects' investment decisions. This study analyzed the project costs using a regression analysis and Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS) guided by...
Previous studies of construction contract auction bidding have mainly focused on finding factors affecting the markup and decision to bid (d2b), without considering expert weight and critical factors as input variables for estimating the size of markup needed. This study develops a 3-step Mamdani-type of Fuzzy Inference System (FIS) identifying cri...
Damage of asphalt pavements relating to moisture is being researched with many decades. But the exact reason for the moisture damage and the mathematical expression is unknown. To ascertain such effects concerning adhesive forces, a nanoscale experiment with an atomic force microscope (AFM) is going to be performed in this study. For making samples...
In recent years, Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emission has been increased by 22% in Saudi Arabia, and the building construction sector is one of the major contributors to increased CO2. This necessitates Saudi Arabia's introduction of energy efficiency and sustainability in the construction sector. Green Concrete (GC) has recently gained popularity in the...
While power plant projects have seriously been encountered cost overruns, previous studies have paid less attention to predict the cost overruns in assisting contingency cost planning. Considering the critical risks producing cost overruns, this study aims to develop a Hybrid Predictive-Probabilistic-based Model (HPPM) by integrating genetic progra...
Cost overruns are a ubiquitous feature of construction projects, and realistic budgeting at the development stage plays a significant role in their control. However, the application of existing models to budgeting for power plant projects is restricted by the limited amount of project-specific cost data available. This study overcomes this by using...
Purpose
Construction worker health and safety is a primary concern for construction companies and researchers. Arabian Gulf region, like Saudi Arabia, has been experiencing extremely hot and humid (EHH) weather, which directly affects construction workers’ health and safety. This study aims to address the problem of EHH weather conditions and their...
While other industries focus more on developing CSI for better customer-focused services, the construction industry pays less attention to its customers. Thus, this study aims to develop a CSI for the construction industry. Accordingly, 48 customer satisfaction factors (CSFs) under seven groups were identified from the literature and evaluated base...
The construction sector in Saudi Arabia is the largest and fastest-growing market in the Gulf region. However, there are considerable quality service gaps that affect the overall performance of the construction projects. Achieving a high quality for construction projects is strongly associated with managing interrelated organisational processes and...
Realistic budgeting at the project development stage is significant to control cost overruns. However, limited access to project-specific cost data restricts applications of existing models for power plant project's budgeting. Thus, this study aims to overcome this data limitation by developing cost and contingency prediction models that can apply...
The current practice of expert judgment-based contingency cost allocation by owners lacks a holistic understanding of project risks, their causal relationships, and impact on project costs. This study presents an integrated fuzzy set theory and fuzzy Bayesian belief network model for a rational, realistic determination of contingency costs for infr...
Identifying and understanding potential nonconformities in different construction phases is a key to ensuring the anticipated quality and performance of a building in its service period. Previous studies mostly focused on studying nonconformities in the handover or post-handover phases of building projects. There has been relatively less attention...
Background
Moisture damage and aging take place together in asphalt binder as it is on road-pavement in service life and therefore quite difficult to overcome. Various techniques, such as crumb rubber, fibres, etc., have been applied to improve the behaviour of asphalt materials Use of nano materials was found as one of the effective techniques to...
The expected longer service life of modified asphalt can be jeopardized by different environmental factors, such as moisture, oxidation, etc. which affect the desired properties by altering the adhesive property. An insight into knowledge of the adhesive property of the asphalt can help in providing more durable asphalt pavement. The study attempte...
Preventing cost overruns of such infrastructure projects as power plants is a global project management problem. The existing risk assessment methods/models have limitations to address the complicated nature of these projects, incorporate the probabilistic causal relationships of the risks and probabilistic data for risk assessment, by taking into...
Cost overrun risk assessment in the preliminary stages of a power plant project is laden with subjectivity, uncertainty, imprecision, and the vagueness of expert judgment. Current fuzzy approaches to risk assessment in such projects specifically require improvements in the reliability and aggregation process of experts' judgments as well as the inc...
Cost overrun risk assessment in the preliminary stages of a power plant project is laden with subjectivity, uncertainty, imprecision, and the vagueness of expert judgment. Current fuzzy approaches to risk assessment in such projects specifically require improvements in the reliability and aggregation process of experts’ judgments as well as the inc...
Construction delay is a common problem worldwide and ascertain as one of the basic reasons to create unsuccessful project. This study addressed the delay issues of the larger building construction projects in Bangladesh (BD) to extract the important causes of delay and justify the level of relationship among the parties involved in construction pro...
Schedule delay in building construction projects is considered as one of the main reasons for project failure in developing countries. Likewise, privately funded building construction projects in Bangladesh have been suffering due to schedule delays. This study investigated the main causes of delay in privately funded large building projects in Ban...
Fuzzy and hybrid methods have been increasingly used in construction risk management research and this study aims to compile and analyse the basic concepts and methods applied in this field to date. A content analysis is made of a comprehensive literature review of publications during 2005–2017. It is found that the nature of complex projects is su...
Construction industry is notoriously known for its poor safety records compared with other industries. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the existing safety practices, and discover the causes of fatality in building construction projects of Bangladesh. To achieve the objectives, related literatures were reviewed and field data were coll...
Construction delay is one of the basic constrains to achieve the project objectives in developing countries. This study aims to find the causes and effects of construction delays in developing countries. A thorough literature review has been done following the content analysis method. The relevant literature of 28 developing countries was collected...
Damage due to moisture in polymer modified asphalt pavements has been investigated for several decades; yet, the exact and mathematical causes of moisture are not precisely known. Nanoscale experiment has been conducted in this study with an atomic force microscopy (AFM) to determine these effects in terms of adhesive and cohesive forces. A base as...
Cost overrun in power plant projects is a global problem. Assessing potential risks at preliminary stage of the project is important to control cost overrun. Existing models are discovered as ineffective for assessing cost overrun risks in power plant projects due to two basic limitations-i) incapable to handle subjective biases in riskassessment a...
Construction delay is a common problem worldwide, which is considered as one of the main reasons for project failure. Bangladesh construction industry is no exception. This study investigated the main causes of delay in large building construction projects in Bangladesh. A questionnaire survey was conducted to determine the causes of delay from own...
The assessment of risk and its proper management is a matter of great concern. Due to the improper management of risk a project may experience a huge amount of loss of money. Considering these factors and paying attention to the necessity of risk management, the study has been carried out in the construction projects in Bangladesh. The main attenti...
The assessment of risk and its proper management is a matter of great concern. Due to the improper management of risk a project may experience a huge amount of loss of money. Considering these factors and paying attention to the necessity of risk management, the study has been carried out in the construction projects in Bangladesh. The main attenti...
The assessment of risk and its proper management is a matter of great concern. Due to the improper management of risk a project may experience a huge amount of loss of money. Considering these factors and paying attention to the necessity of risk management, the study has been carried out in the construction projects in Bangladesh. The main attenti...
Gas blowout is one of the major hazard in petroleum field which normally damages the gas bearing geologic formation, structure, local tectonic setting, environment and so on. In Bangladesh, there have been three well known gas blowouts. Among them, the most dangerous gas well blowout took place on 8 January 2005 in Sunamganj district when chattak-2...
The study considers the building construction technologies available in Bangladesh. It has been carried out to evaluate the existing situation of construction projects in the country and its aim to evaluate the current situation and make a comparison between the cities, i.e., Dhaka, the capital city and Sylhet, the fast rising city but located at t...
Sylhet is a densely populated city with approximately half million inhabitants living in an area of 26.5 sq.km where growth rate of population is high. Due to rapid urbanization process, a number of high rise buildings are constructing here. Since Sylhet city is vulnerable to earthquake, proper guideline and building codes should be followed for st...
Questions
Questions (2)
I am going to conduct a survey among the experts who are working in power plant construction projects in my country. So far I know, construction of 30 mega projects are going on. The targeted experts are 7-categories, for example, contractors, sub-contractors, vendors, project director (PD), project manager (PM), site engineer, and consulting engineer (or consultant). The other variables are project size in terms of power generation capacity, budget, project location, experts' experience (year), and academic qualification. Please suggest me in a precise way to save my time? I am now in a critical moment. I have a presentation just after couple of weeks. Thank you for your patience and time.
Hello,
I am little bit worried about the selection of sample size of my current research. There are approximately 30 projects in my research field and 5 categories of experts are my target to conduct a questionnaire survey. Therefore, 150 is the population size. However, there are other variables like project size, respondents experience, academic qualification, occupations etc. Do you know, how I could calculate the sample size and justify the number of sample size? If you have any relevant literature, I will be very thankful to you.
