Noralfishah Sulaiman

• Property and Facilities Management, PhD (University of Salford, UK)
• Lecturer at Tun Hussein Onn University of Malaysia

This research is aimed to identify and understand professional challenges attached to Women in Real Estate (WIRE) sector specifically in Malaysia. As we can see today, Malaysian women are highly important in contributing to the country’s economic and social development. Despite the increasing number of WIRE today, women still are facing a lot of ch...

Objective Disaster management strategies often emphasize technical and structural solutions, overlooking the sociocultural factors that shape community resilience and disaster response. In Malaysia, a multiethnic and multireligious country frequently affected by floods and monsoon storms, cultural beliefs, social networks, and traditional practices...

Background Flooding is a frequent and devastating hazard in Malaysia, exacerbated by the country’s tropical climate and rapid urbanisation. Traditional flood management strategies, predominantly focused on engineering solutions, have proven inadequate in addressing evolving flood risks. Community-based flood mitigation (CBFM) has emerged as an alte...

The widespread increase in flood hazards and the ensuing impacts have guided a change in approach to flood risk management, especially in developed countries. Based on the realization that the integration of non-structural approaches to flood mitigation, understanding the social dimensions of flood risk is an important aspect is needful. Due to cha...

Communities increasingly need tools that can help them assess the environmental risks they face to understand better their capacities in mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. Environmental resilience (ER) is a crucial feature of community resilience that is not adequately covered in the literature. This paper proposes an inclusive, part...

Floods have been reported to be an important disaster in any country and Malaysia has faced similar disasters in the past, resulting in disturbance in daily community routine issues, financial losses, infrastructure damage including railway tracks, bridges, roads, vehicles, properties, and the worst is the loss of lives. The Sarawak region of Malay...

Coronavirus disease has caused a pandemic across the globe and it is now representing a significant threat to global health. Certainly, managing COVID-19 as compared to other type of disasters comes with a lot of unique challenges to many sectors including the educational sector, especially to higher education institutions (HEI). Since the announce...

The world has faced many disasters in recent years, but flood impacts have gained immense importance and attention due to their adverse effects. More than half of global flood destruction and damages occur in the Asia region, which causes losses of life, damage infrastructure, and creates panic conditions among the communities. To provide a better...

Technical and methodological enhancement of hazards and disaster research is identified as a critical question in disaster management. Artificial intelligence (AI) applications, such as tracking and mapping, geospatial analysis, remote sensing techniques, robotics, drone technology, machine learning, telecom and network services, accident and hot s...

Digital technologies and big data speedily change humanitarian crisis response and transform the processes from traditional to digital. Digital Humanitarian Network (DHN) for disaster risk reduction (DRR) using crisis mapping of the vulnerable population is becoming increasingly common during any disaster response process. To get the information an...

Corporate Social Responsibility is considered to be an important part of company’s strategy. European and western countries are seriously improving the social, environmental, and economic practices to become a sustainable representatives. Firms which are implementing sustainable practices, likely to have a better business performance and brand imag...

The involvement of Kurdish women in nationalistic revolutions has left many astonished. Kurdistan's history is enriched with many women that have had leadership roles in political, religious, and even military positions. This research examined the life of modern working women in Kurdistan that have turned to entrepreneurship to break from societal...

Risk-sensitive urban development is an innovative planning approach that can transform the way cities are built in order to face the uncertainties that arise from climate-induced disaster risks. However, the potential to initiate such a transformative approach has not materialized because of the many underlying issues that need to be understood pro...

A stable methodology for conserving the natural environment has been a concern for developing countries. The fast-paced growth of urbanization generated significant demand for automobiles, leading to greater utilization of fuel. The consumption of fuel is fulfilled by the Filling Station (FS). An FS is undoubtedly an important facility, but it is r...

This research is aimed to discuss the implementation of Autonomous Robot as Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) Technology approaches in facing this current epidemic outbreak. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is the current and emerging environment in which technologies has transformed the way we live and work. Since Sustainable Development Goals (S...

The recent evets of flooding, earthquakes, uncontrolled wildfires, hurricanes, and deadly storms in world has considered a serious threat to mankind and preparing for devastating disasters has never been more critical and urgent. Emergency Events Database suggests that by year 2050 the damages to flood related incidents to coastal cities will cost...

Flooding is the most common natural disaster in Malaysia, resulting in chaos and disruptions to social and economic activities, damage to roads and railway tracks, vehicles, affecting the level of properties, loss of life, and rise in vulnerability. In addition to natural causes, floods are mainly attributed to continuous heavy rainfall, rapid deve...

In mid of December 2019, Wuhan sea food, China a new mysterious illness was reported lately called Coronavirus (COVID-19, The virus triggered a severe respiratory disease, rapidly speeded to many other states of China and around the world. COVID-19 is a new strain that had not been previously identified in humans. Hundreds of millions of people hav...

In Malaysia, over the year's disasters has affected buildings and infrastructure including healthcare facilities severely. The past events should provide a valuable lesson for future preparedness and planning in healthcare facilities whether from natural, man-made or both disasters. However, recent hospital disaster shows that more in-depth effort...

Many studies have acknowledged that higher education institutions are growing globally; this may not be unconnected to the continuous increase in the population and higher education demand, which spurred up enrollment. It is evident, clear that HEIs are experiencing consistency growth in students' populations yearly. This paper aims to highlight st...

The world population has been growing tremendously, which surged up the demand and enrolment in educational institutions to unimaginable level globally. Similarly, Malaysia has witnessed tremendous growth in higher education both in the order and establishment of new higher education institutions (HEIs) to match up with the demand. However, there i...

Flood is considered as one of the most devastating hazards around the globe and emerged as an important issue among all the stakeholder to manage. Every year when the flood occurs, it has a terrible impact on human lives and demolishes billions of dollars property and infrastructure as well. The flood catastrophe and its losses can be reduced and p...

Membrane photocatalytic reactor (MPR) has become one of the promising methods for palm oil mill secondary effluent (POMSE) polishing process. However, the utilization of green synthesis zinc oxide-Cymbopogon citratus (ZnO-CC) nanoparticles to improve MPR performance for POMSE treatment has been rather limited to date. In this study, the effects of...

In Malaysia, the awareness of recycling to reduce household waste among Malaysians are quite low. Research has shown that the Malaysians' recycling rate was as low as five percent only. Hence, the purpose of this research is to determine the factors influencing the recycling intention among university students. Seven hypotheses were conducted with...

In reducing the impact of current and future disasters so as to form a resilient future, disaster management deserves highest priority and plays a vital role in managing the risk of disaster. However, it cannot be addressed or undertaken by the government alone. It requires a strong supporting multi-agency collaboration to undertake various types o...

In reducing the impact of current and future disasters so as to form a resilient future, disaster management deserves highest priority and plays a vital role in managing the risk of disaster. However, it cannot be addressed or undertaken by the government alone. It requires a strong supporting multi-agency collaboration to undertake various types o...

Disasters cannot be prevented fully but their impacts and severity can be lessened through the application of certain frameworks. However, there is currently a lack of a robust framework in building disaster resilient and sustainable communities in Malaysia. Malaysians are increasingly finding themselves not being spared from disasters especially f...

Purpose: The year 2020 herald a landmark in Malaysia’s demographic and economic landscape as the country is expected to become an ageing country as well as aspiring of becoming a high income country. The elderly persons were, however, reported to be vulnerable to the risk of financial insecurity in old-age which if not addressed could affects the c...

Asia experienced 70% of all the disasters in the world and there is no indication that this will decline in the future. The disaster experienced by a city is mostly caused by the combination and collision of climate change, urbanization, social-economic instability, terrorism, natural disaster, cyber-attack, poverty, and endemic outbreak. The crisi...

Asia experienced 70% of all the disasters in the world and there is no indication that this will decline in the future. The disaster experienced by a city is mostly caused by the combination and collision of climate change, urbanization, social-economic instability, terrorism, natural disaster, cyber-attack, poverty, and endemic outbreak. The crisi...

Reverse mortgage has recently been widely promoted as a financial product speacially designed to enable the elderly people consume the accumulated equity trapped in their residential homes in order to avoid the risk of financial insecurity in old-age. Results of simulation studies revealed a promising potential for the product with a market demand...

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 the last three decades globally higher institutions (HIs) have been experiencing an unprecedented upsurge in student population and student enrolment in His generally outstrip the HIs student housing. In many countries of the world like Nigeria, HIs are obviously incapacitated in accommodating the growing student population which compelled numer...

Conveniently situated in Parit Raja town which is also known as the “Education Town” in Johor, Universiti Tun Hussien Onn Malaysia (UTHM) is a member of Malaysian Technical University Network (MTUN). In pursuit of turning UTHM as a Green Campus, UTHM has its own ambitious targets for sustainability. It is committed to provide sustainable, efficient...

Asia experienced 70% of all the disasters in the world and there is no indication that this will decline in the future. The disaster experienced by a city is mostly caused by the combination and collision of climate change, urbanization, social-economic instability, terrorism, natural disaster, cyber-attack, poverty, and endemic outbreak. The crisi...

The modernisation of Malaysia had begun on the early 1980's which causes many heritage villages and their neighbourhoods disappearing at a fast rate especially in urban areas. The purpose of this article is to review the process of urbanisation in Malaysia with a focus on conserving the heritage village in the challenging urban landscape. This pape...

Asia experienced 70% of all the disaster in the world and there is no indication that this will decrease in the future. The disaster experienced by a city mostly caused by combination and collision of climate change, urbanization, social-economic instability, terrorism, natural disaster, cyber-attack, poverty, and endemic outbreak and etc. Subseque...

Growing demand for higher education (HE) and increasing students enrolment in higher education institutions (HEI) has been a global issue especially in the last three decades and housing the growing student population has become a dilemma for all concern HEIs stakeholders. Globally increasing demand for HE and enrolment has long been not correspond...

This is an unpublished work that describes the methodology of an ongoing research on developing a framework for reverse mortgage market in Malaysia

Malaysia is expected to become an ageing nation by the year 2020, when 10% of its population will fall within the age group 60 years and above. One of the challenges heralded by this development is income insecurity among the elderly population, who by virtue of their age are forced on retirement thereby making them to rely heavily on pension, soci...

Reverse mortgage is a relatively new financial product specially designed to enable the elderly people convert the trapped equity in their homes into liquid cash in order to supplement their existing income. This paper aims at proposing a model that can predicts potential consumers; intention to use reverse mortgage as a source of supplementary inc...

This study aims at identifying the factors that influence households’ willingness to use reverse mortgage as a source of supplementary income in old age by adopting the original Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) and extending it with other three additional constructs. Using a convenience sampling technique, a total of 391 valid questionnaires were...

This paper is prepared to discuss the conceptual design of Islamic cemetery being practiced in Malaysia. Presently, it can be seen that most of the Islamic cemetery estates in Malaysia are facing various issues in term of management, design, build and maintenance. Based on these issues, this study is conducted in order to establish a holistic Cemet...

This research is to determine the lifespan of al-mafqud from their physical and health aspects in order to apply the ”Letter of Declaration of Presumed Death”

This research is to determine the lifespan of al-mafqud from their physical and health aspects in order to apply the ”Letter of Declaration of Presumed Death”

Student housing is an entity in housing studies which researchers relegated to the background, this may not be unconnected to the fact that it has relative less problems in terms of financing, substandard quality and provision of infrastructure facilities and services since institutions' has taken complete responsibility of everything. However, in...

Medical Tourism (MT) is understood as travel internationally with the intention of received less critical medical service at affordable cost. The practice of MT depends on successfully informing potential In-ternational Patient Tourists (IPTs) about treatment facilities, travel arrangements and procedure options. Ma-laysia is considered to be a pop...

MedicalTourism (MT) is used to describe the health practice of individuals travelling internationally for less critical care cases and make use of any vacationing opportunities, typically paid for out-of-pocket. Health information (HI) asymmetry and doctor-patient knowledge gap are identified as one of the problems causes the Malaysian’s healthcare...

ABSTRAK Tanah Perkuburan Islam di Malaysia telah mencapai banyak pembaharuan. Antaranya pembinaan Raudhatul Sakinah iaitu tanah perkuburan dalam taman. Pada peringkat awal, dua tanah perkuburan telah dijadikan tapak pembinaan iaitu Tanah Perkuburan Islam KL-Karak dan Tanah Perkuburan Islam Bukit Kiara yang diuruskan oleh Jabatan Agama Islam Wilayah...

Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a new adaptation of computeraided technology used in Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC). Presently, BIM is one of the most talked-about concepts within the Built Environment (BE) sector. BIM comprises of 3D digital representation of a building system or subsystem, and it contains visual models o...

This experimental work investigates the influence of POFA as partial cement replacement towards corrosion resistance of high strength concrete. Plain high strength concrete (P0) with 100% ordinary Portland cement (control specimen) and POFA high strength concrete containing POFA as partial cement replacement material were used. At the first stage,...

Globally, the elderly population will number about 1.2 billion of which three quarters will be in developing countries by 2025. As a developing country, Malaysia is already hit the status of an Ageing Nation when its population reached 7 per cent out of the total population. Presently, the total population of the elderly in Malaysia is approximatel...

In Malaysia, Social Care Real Estate (SCRE) has not emerged as a significant topic in its Real Estate Research Agenda (RERA). Social care sector comprises a wide range of care services provided through public, private, State Religious Council (SRC) or Non-Profit Organisations (NGOs) to help disabled; older people; orphanage; juvenile offender; abus...

In Malaysia, Social Care Real Estate (SCRE) has not emerged as a significant topic in its Real Estate Research Agenda (RERA). Social care sector comprises a wide range of care services provided through public, private, State Religious Council (SRC) or Non-Profit Organisations (NGOs) to help disabled; older people; orphanage; juvenile offender; abus...

Cemetery needs is a basic facility that is as important as other basic facilities to the communities in Malaysia particularly to Muslim society. Recently, a lot of issues arise in Muslim Cemetery Management (MCM) caused by increase in human population and development booming. Land shortage for burials is one of the many issues that emerge out of ac...

Gated communities are residential areas developed within restricted access. In its modern form of provision, a gated community is a form of residential community of housing estate containing strictly-controlled entrances and often characterized by a close perimeter of wall or fences. Nowadays, it is obvious that a lot more of this type of housin...

Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a new adaptation of computer-aided technology used in Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC). Presently, BIM is one of the most talked-about concepts within the Built Environment (BE) sector. BIM comprises of 3D digital representation of a building system or subsystem, and it contains visual models...

• Importance of accreditation to customer’s choice of service • Benefits of having green accreditation on society’s perspective • Establishing international image as a Green driven establishment which can promote social recognition

Tanah perkuburan adalah satu keperluan asas yang sama pentingnya dengan kemudahan asas yang lain terhadap komuniti di Malaysia terutamanya kepada komuniti Islam. Ia merupakan satu kawasan di mana jasad orang yang telah meninggal dunia dikebumikan. Amalan Sistem Pengurusan Tanah Perkuburan Islam (SPTPI) yang konvensional tanpa aplikasi Sistem Maklum...

Facilities management (FM) is a multi-disciplinary services and activities that have integration between people, place, process and technology. From the aspect of a building or facility, a system of comprehensive and incorporated FM should be generated systematically so that the maintenance, asset and life span management are implemented properly....

By the year 2030, it is expected that 15 percent of the Malaysian population will be aged 60 years old and above. Reports show that the elderly in Malaysia for the coming decades are likely to be living alone or ending up in the welfare homes. The reliance of elderly on the Care Home for the Elderly (CHfE) has clearly shown an increase over the yea...

The current interest in Health Tourism (HT) trend to focus on foreign patients or individuals travelling internationally for medical reasons or to enhance their state of well-being, typically paid out-of pocket. Specifically, Joint Commission International (JCI) and British Standards Institute (BSI) accreditation health care organisation in Brazil,...

The current interest in Health Tourism (HT) trend to focus on foreign patients or individuals travel internationally for medical reasons or to enhance their state of well-being, typically paid out-of pocket. Specifically, Joint Commission International (JCI) and British Standards Institute (BSI) accreditation health care organization in Brazil, Cos...

Presently, Malaysia has about 3 million people of elderly and this number continues to increase. It is assumed that Malaysia will reach the status of an ageing nation by year 2030, when those aged 60 years old and above will make up 15 per cent of the nation population. The increasing number of the elderly population in Malaysia will lead to a grea...

Healthcare reform, the aging baby boomer population and changing technology in outpatient care are the three big factors driving Healthcare Real Estate (HRE) demand globally. In Southeast Asia, Medical Tourism Industry (MTI) is expanding rapidly and emerging as a lucrative business opportunity. Due to this promising opportunity, many ASEAN countrie...

Residential Care Home for the Elderly (RCHfE) serves as an important institutional care place for the elderly aged 60 and above. It acts as an alternative living arrangement, primarily for the elderly who need a safe and homely long-term residential based environment with 24-hour care available. RCHfE provides lodging, meal services and assistance...

The number of elderly ending up in welfare homes like Residential Care Home for the Elderly (RCHfE) in Malaysia is increasing by years. Census 2012 shows that the number of the elderly staying in the public RCHfE in Malaysia is approximately 1,927 people and this number is expected to increase as the elderly population in our country is expected to...

• The emergence of facilities management, healthcare FM and social care FM in Malaysia • New and emerging service innovation in hospital facilities management • Unique challenges and opportunities ahead for innovative hospital facilities management

By the year 2020, 9.5 percent of the Malaysian population will be aged 60 years and above. To cope with the increase in elderly, the phenomenon of decreasing family size and other demographic and social factors affecting the family structure has resulted in the need for more public residential care facilities for the elderly to take over the tradit...

Information relating to Malaysian education in Facilities Management (FM) is difficult to come by and has led to a less than comprehensive understanding of the current market in the minds of FM practitioners. As a fast developing country, Malaysia spends billions of Malaysian Ringgit (RM) to build world class facilities. Though the prospects of FM...

The purpose of any type of research is to record and demonstrate what is important about the story of an event, people or place. In research, a visual method covers all uses of images such as photograph, with or without accompanying words, as a part of the research process. Though most sociologists are ‘visually illiterate’ and show little sign of...

‘Methodology’ means the science of methods (method+logy, the latter being a Greek word which can literally be translated to mean the ‘science of’). It contains the strategy, plan of action, process or design lying behind the choice and use of particular methods and the linking of the choice and use of method to the desired outcomes. A case study is...

Malaysia has laid down its social and housing policies in its Development Plans since the Colonial Administration and Pre Independence period (1950-1954) until the latest Eight Malaysian Plan (2001-2005). In general, the delivery of social service in Malaysia has been divided into two main categories consisting of housing and other social services...

Social housing development may involve the provision of new dwellings or the refurbishment/rehabilitation of existing buildings. The term social housing means housing provided and managed by local authorities as well as by housing associations and other organisations regulated by government. Institutional model is a model of the development process...

Housing provision involves a physical process of creating and transferring a dwelling to its occupiers, its subsequent use and physical reproduction and, at the same time, a social process dominated by the economic interests involved. From the colonial administration until the Eight Malaysia Plan 2001-2005 assorted modes of housing provision in Mal...

Formal housing in Malaysia introduced and implemented a concept of Low Cost Housing (LCH) during the Fourth Malaysia Plan (1981-1985). During this period, overall goals of housing policy were to ensure that all Malaysians had access to adequate housing. To meet this objective, emphasis was given to increase the supply of Low Cost Housing (LCH) in u...

Housing provision is a physical process of creating and transferring a dwelling to its occupiers, its subsequent use and physical reproduction and at the same time, a social process dominated by the economic interests involved. Government intervention through good housing policies is needed to deliver the housing provision for the nation, either by...

A Case Study can be defined as empirical inquiry that investigates a contemporary phenomenon within its life context and copes with the technically distinctive situation in which there will be many more variables of interest than data points and relies on multiple sources of evidence. This paper presents a discussion on the philosophical stance of...

The aged population is increasing in Malaysia. Malaysia was categorized as an ageing nation when the elderly population reached 7.2% (1.8 million) by 2005. In a society where aging is progressing, and where even among elderly people there is an increasingly larger class of older senior citizens, the increasing number of elderly people requiring app...