Mukhtar A. KassemUniversiti Teknologi Malaysia | UTM · Department of Quantity Surveying
Mukhtar A. Kassem
PhD (Civil & Structural Engineering)
Post-Doctoral Fellow - Department of Quantity Surveying, Faculty of Built Environment & Surveying, UTM
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Introduction
Mukhtar A. Kassem PhD degree from the Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, National University of Malaysia (UKM) and Master (M.Sc.) in Project Management from Open University Malaysia (OUM) and a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Civil Engineering from Babylon University-Iraq.
15 years’ experience in the supervision, implementation and management of oil and gas construction projects.
Additional affiliations
February 2017 - February 2020
Position
- PhD
Description
- I carried out my research using the oil and gas sector in Yemen as case study to collecting data from their employees and start to analyze this data using different techniques to achieve research objectives, this methods include Structural Equation
July 2010 - December 2016
OMV
Position
- Engineer
Description
- - Managing and planning for the construction of the project(s). - Ability to prepare straightforward plans, design, calculations, analyses etc. by established codes, standards, and drawings.
Education
February 2017 - February 2020
May 2011 - January 2015
June 1996 - June 2000
Publications
Publications (43)
This study aims to investigate the risk factors in construction projects in oil and gas processing facilities in Yemen and serves as a case study for developing countries. By using a questionnaire, data were collected from 201 project managers and engineers employed in different sectors in the oil and gas industry in Yemen.
The survey analysis base...
Purpose
This study aims to identify and assess the significant risks in Yemen oil and gas construction projects based on their risk rating (impact and probability) by using probability–impact matrix (PIM).
Design/methodology/approach
In total, 51 risk factors that might affect construction projects in the oil and gas sector are defined through a d...
Purpose-Project failure is the result of one or a combination of several causes of risk factors that are very important to identify for effective performance. This study aims to focus on studying the fundamental relationship between internal risk factors and the negative effect on oil and gas project success in Yemen using the partial least square...
Purpose
Construction projects in the oil and gas sector are greatly affected by external risk factors, especially those related to the economy, politics, security and stability factors. Hence, this research aimed to investigate the fundamental relationship between the external risk factors and their effects on the construction project success using...
Abstract
Purpose – The oil and gas construction projects are affected negatively by the drop in oil price in recent years. Thus, most engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) companies are opting to optimize the project mainly to mitigate the source of risks in construction to achieve the project expectation. Risk factors cause a threat to t...
Risk management is seen as a critical organizational capability for gaining a competitive advantage in the construction sector. The importance of risk management in minimizing the impacts of external risk factors in construction projects, and therefore achieving project success, was investigated in this study. Using partial least squares structural...
The recent advancement in technology and equipment offered many opportunities and possibilities to simplify and speed up the construction processes. One of the most relevant and important to utilize technology is in the project progress monitoring which is needed for project stakeholders to know where they stand in the project. Using an automated p...
The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most serious global health crises. It has had a massive impact on the global workforce and workplaces, causing enormous changes in the working environment and raising concerns among organizations. Due to the pandemic, the construction industry has faced more challenges in delivering projects on time and within bu...
Urban public space is essential in improving population carrying capacity and economic efficiency. However, the characteristics of urban public space, such as complex structure, relatively close and large population mobility, make it prone to fire, stampedes and other safety accidents. This study aims to develop a systematic approach to identify th...
The book includes an original study on some aspects pertaining to the use of intelligent Technologies in the Design, Engineering, Construction Technologies, and Maintenance and Management of Constructed Facilities using drone applications, virtual reality (VR) and back-propagation (BP) software for the neural network. The scope encompasses all stag...
Infectious disease emergency hospitals are usually temporarily built during the pneumonia epidemic with higher requirements regarding diagnosis and treatment efficiency, hygiene and safety, and infection control. This study aims to identify how the Building Information Modeling (BIM) + Industrialized Building System (IBS) approach could rapidly del...
Various factors affect the standard method of measurement adoption in civil construction projects, especially in developing countries such as Malaysia. Hence, this study investigates the relationship between affected factors towards standard adoption using the SEM approach. As a case study, this study focused on quantity surveyors working at a cons...
Various factors affect the standard method of measurement adoption in civil construction projects, especially in developing countries such as Malaysia. Hence, this study investigates the relationship between affected factors towards standard adoption using the SEM approach. As a case study, this study focused on quantity surveyors working at a cons...
Green buildings are considered to be an effective way to save energy, reduce emissions, and protect the environment. As one of the main bodies of green building construction, the construction unit’s willingness to build seriously affects the promotion of green building. Therefore, based on the viewpoints of natural persons and bounded rationality,...
Construction is a critical sector of any economy in terms of value production, labor, and contributing to the gross national product. Managing risk is a relatively young area in Yemen’s construction sector, but it is gaining traction as building activity and competition rise. Construction firms mitigate risk by using a variety of risk management me...
Although many project portfolio management tools have been developed, little has been found capable of evaluating and managing project quality, cost, and schedule simultaneously. Limited cross-project references also limit lessons learned in the context of triple constraints. This study aims to embed quality check into the earned value management (...
The prefabricated components are an important aspect of prefabricated constructions. Based on three possible collision situations when the fabricated component is being lifted during the installation phase, the aim of this study is to investigate how to prevent effective collision between the hoist and the barrier, and establish the standardized op...
The safety inspection capability of construction sites before typhoons could be improved
using a UAV, which has a rapid identification capability. However, the main safety inspection items need construction experience and technical safety specifications. This study aimed to obtain the influencing factors of typhoon and their weight proportion throu...
Fabricated building construction is an effective way to improve construction process, productivity, quality and costeffectiveness.
However, many developers cannot actively respond to the existing policies, so giving full play to the
government’s guiding role and stimulating market enthusiasm is the key to the development of prefabricated buildings....
Oil and gas construction projects are of great importance to support and facilitate the process of operation and production. However, these projects usually face chronic risks that lead to time overrun, cost overrun, and poor quality, affecting the projects’ success. Hence, this study focused on identifying, classifying, and modeling the risk facto...
Building information modelling (BIM) has become increasingly popular in construction
projects in recent years. Simultaneously, project management has received more attention from academics and practitioners worldwide. Many studies have suggested that perceiving collaboration and risk are critical for successful construction project management. This...
The construction industry’s high energy consumption and carbon emissions significantly burden the ecological environment. Thus, it is necessary to study measures and strategies for emissions reduction during construction for an improved, safe and sustainable environment. Using the life-cycle assessment method, this study aims to investigate constru...
The construction of prefabricated buildings is an effective and efficient approach to improving construction processes and productivity. However, there are practical problems in this approach, such as listing, safety risk levels, and quality control. This study aims to develop a systematic approach for determining the key factors affecting prefabri...
The construction industry has been experiencing a rapid increase in complex projects for the last two decades. Simultaneously, project complexity has received more attention from academics and practitioners worldwide. Many studies suggest that perceiving complexity is critical for successful construction project management. This study investigates...
The attempts to analyze the relationship between the construction industry and economic growth have integrated many different methods. The process has become to be perceived as "construction economics" analysis. It is conceptualized as a procedure where construction industries outcomes implement increasingly more relevant for nation's development b...
The attempts to analyze the relationship between the construction industry and economic growth have integrated many different methods. The process has become to be perceived as “construction economics” analysis. It is conceptualized as a procedure where construction industries outcomes implement increasingly more relevant for nation’s development b...
During a fire evacuation, long lateral evacuation distances, large crowds waiting for evacuation at the same level, and easily panicked populations are common. This research aimed to look into the large-scale evacuation behavior of urban underground complexes with limited evacuation and egress during a fire. A simplified model for large-scale group...
The COVID-19 pandemic represents a type of force majeure that significantly and unexpectedly affected all human lifestyles. This study includes an integrative review of articles published across Scopus and Web of Science journals and compiled using the systematic review methodology based on the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Revie...
Typhoon is one of the most important natural disasters in the coastal areas of China and caused severe economic losses every year. A typhoon disaster early warning evaluation system for historical buildings is established, and the influence of risk factors is analyzed using the analytic hierarchy process. The corresponding prevention strategies are...
The oil and gas industry contributes significantly to the improvement of the socio-economic growth of any country. Construction projects in the oil and gas sector are of great importance to support and facilitate the process of operation and production, especially the construction of central production units of facilities, which is one of the giant...
As China's population ages and the notion of contemporary people evolves, an increasing number of elderly people opt to spend their final years in a nursing home. Recently, there have been more fires in nursing facilities for the elderly. As a result, using computer simulation technology, this paper creates an evacuation micro-simulation model for...
Virtual reality (VR) technology is a kind of computer simulation system that can create and experience the virtual world. It uses computers to generate a simulation environment. It is a system simulation of multisource information fusion, interactive three-dimensional dynamic view, and physical behavior for users to immerse in the environment. The...
Risk management in construction projects is essential to achieve the objectives of the projects without any cost overrun or delay, and the achievement will be of high quality depending on the design and planning of the project 1. The risk management system assists project managers in prioritizing resource allocation and helps them obtain reliable d...
Risk management in construction projects is essential to achieve the objectives of the projects without any cost overrun or delay, and the achievement will be of high quality depending on the design and planning of the project (A. Kassem et al. 2019). The risk management system assists project managers in prioritizing resource allocation and helps...
All scientific journals with impact factors in medical, engineering and technological sciences according to WOS updated on 08/20/2020
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The objective of this research is to classify risk factors and their ranking in terms of their probability and impact on construction projects in the oil and gas sector, to test the relationship between the causes and effects of risk factors and then develop the risk map to facilitate the planning of risk response strategies. To achieve this object...
As per available reports about 207 journals, 769 Conferences, 30 workshops are presently dedicated exclusively to Civil Engineering and about 1,930,000 articles are being published on the current trends in Civil Engineering.
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STRUCTURAL MODELLING OF RISK FACTORS�AFFECT ON OIL AND GAS CONSTRUCTION�PROJECTS SUCCESS
Risk factors are unique in every of the construction projects are facing today. This research is conducted to identify and assess the relative importance of the significant risk factors contributing to cost and time overrun in oil and gas construction project in Yemen. Usually, construction projects affected by risk factors during the project lifec...
The purpose of this paper is to identify the risk factors affecting oil and gas construction projects in Yemen and to prioritize their impact on projects with a view to identifying appropriate techniques to address these risks in proportion to their scale of impact and replication in projects. A pilot study was conducted using a questionnaire surve...
Questions
Questions (24)
Lessons learned statement clearly specifies reasons for project success and failures. Project teams can record factors that contributed to project success. This document also allows teams to assess reasons for project failures. Thus projects can replicate past success and prevent failure in future projects.
This response strategy tries to make sure that the risk happens, so you get the perceived benefit from the situation. Simple ways to do this could be to train the team to give them extra skills or to tweak your deliverables slightly so that they respond better to the opportunity. Remember that positive risk doesn’t have to only apply to the deliverables you are creating. It can also apply to the way you are creating them.
Most of the research includes literature review, and this review approaches or moves away according to the researcher's experience and his focus on the needs necessary for his research. Hence, it is possible to judge whether the literature review was useful or not.
Many researchers believe that the failure of construction projects to achieve their goals without exceeding the cost and schedule is due to the failure of the project managers to manage the risks that are likely to be encountered during the project life cycle.
In the foreseeable future, do you think that the measures to prevent the Corona virus will have a significant impact on the level of productivity in construction projects?
Determining the most urgent topics to continue research has great value in supporting knowledge, and researchers should from time to time determine future research needs in order to contribute to the development of science and not waste time by new researchers in researching what had been previously discussed.
Given the economic dislocation caused by the rapid spread of COVID-19 across the world, many parties facing difficulties in performing contracts will be considering their legal situation. Can they be held liable for damages for a breach of contract or losses suffered by third parties due to circumstances beyond their control or does the law provide a relief mechanism for dire circumstances such as these?
What do you consider when deciding whether to accept or reject a paper?
It is noted that the developed countries are the most countries that place such questions on the applicants and about their origins and religion. Do these questions have an impact at the evaluation stage?
Projects
Projects (5)
The pandemic of COVID-19 has had a severe influence on the building industry, which is subject to economic fluctuations. On the plus side, construction has the potential to drive recovery by creating employment; in turn, recovery measures may help the sector's shift to sustainability and digitization. Tripartite collaboration and social discussion, as well as international labour norms, are critical for promoting a human-centered recovery of the construction sector from the crisis.
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