Roshana Takim

MARA University of Technology | UiTM · Department of Building

Public Private Partnership (PPP) has been implemented by many governments around the world as an innovative procurement for development of public infrastructure projects. Since the PPP projects involve large amounts of investment and long concession periods, the projects are associated with high credit risk. Usually, debt portion is between 70% and...

Building Tnformation Modeling (BTM) is known as a tool for collaboration among construction organisations in generating and managing data across the construction lifecycle. Despite from the advantages of engaged from BTM (i.e; reduce the number of clashes within the construction process, improve the building visualization, and shorten the planning...

In the last decade, both natural and man-made disaster events in Malaysia bring hindrance to construction firms’ operations. Disaster events causing stress, anxiety and depression among people which leads to lose of working days. This research reports on psychosocial environment factors to private construction firms in the event of disaster. A semi...

Construction industry is fragmented, involves various stakeholders with a complex contractual structure, and variety of psychological human behaviours that expose to corrupt activities. Corruption is a deviant behaviour which deviates from normal duties of a public role, pecuniary, and violates official ethics of public services. The objective of t...

The Private Finance Initiative (PFI) is seen as an alternative procurement method for developing public infrastructure projects. The PFI scheme requires the private sector investment in public infrastructure projects. The private sector faces challenges in securing capital, and fulfilling financial requirements with attractive terms and conditions,...

BIM governance assessment instrument is a process of analysing the importance in developing BIM governance solution to tackle the existing problems during team collaboration in BIM-based projects. Despite the deployment of integrative technologies in construction industry particularly BIM, it is still insufficient compare to other sectors. Several...

Improvement and innovation in building visualization, project coordination and communication are the major benefits generated by Building Information Modelling (BIM) for construction organisations. Thus, as many firms across the world would adopt BIM, however they do not know the clear direction in which path they are moving as there is no specific...

Hospital disaster preparedness refers to measures taken by the hospital's stakeholders to prepare, reduce the effects of disaster and ensure effective coordination during incident response. Among the measures, non-structural components (i.e., medical laboratory equipment & supplies; architectural; critical lifeline; external; updated building docum...

Technically, safety planning and project execution planning has been carried out separately for most BIM-based projects. As such, it leads to difficulties in monitor these planning simultaneously during construction phase. In this regards, the Automated Safety Rule Checking (ASRC) system is perceived to distinguish fall hazards by integrating the s...

Transparency is an essential precondition for containing corruption. Construction is prone to corruption as it involves a large number of participants. Corruption is a deviant behaviour of an individual that should be looked into. The objective of this paper is to study the behavioural factors that lead to corrupt acts based on the Model of Corrupt...

A Transportation infrastructure projects often involve the considerable land use and huge resource that can cause serious impacts to the environment and social dislocation. Hence, implementation of sustainable factors is essential. This paper attempts (1) to review infrastructure project sustainability factor and performance, and (2) to propose a f...

The massive disaster earthquake has triggered Tsunami on 26 December 2004 and shattered capital city of Banda Aceh. The utmost affected components are infrastructure and services which require further redevelopment initiatives for ‘Build Back Better’ (BBB) agenda. These initiatives provide an opportunity for Malaysian entrepreneurs to invest for re...

Disaster resilience hospital (DRH) is the hospital’s ability to resist, absorb, accommodate and recover from the effects of a hazard in a timely and efficient manner. DRH includes the preservation and restoration of the hospital’s essential basic structures and functions. Resilience (i.e. robustness; redundancy; resourcefulness; and rapidity) could...

An enormous flood occurrences on the December 2014 has paralyzed almost the entire East-coast of Malaysia, in particular, the district of Kuala Krai, Kelantan. Among others, the utmost affected sector is social which relates to community-based (health; housing; education & cultural heritage) activities. This sector requires a comprehensive rehabili...

Improvement and innovation in building visualization, project coordination and communication are the major benefits generated by Building Information Modelling (BIM) for construction organisations. Thus, as many firms across the world would adopt BIM, however they do not know the clear direction in which path they are moving as there is no specific...

Limited resources in the public sector have initiated the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) involved in the provision of important public infrastructure. The financing is mostly through debt. However, obtaining financing has been difficult, mostly because the PFI possesses high risks associated with substantial capital, long-term concession period a...

Hospitals themselves vulnerable to numerous types of disasters and can get damaged risking the lives of human being. To a certain extent, despite hard resilience (structural and non-structural), human behavior is one of the contributing factors affecting the hospital’s capability in achieving disaster resilience. Hence, the objectives of the paper...

In the last decade, both natural and man-made disaster events in Malaysia bring hindrance to construction firms’ operations. Disaster events causing stress, anxiety and depression among people which leads to lose of working days. This research reports on psychosocial environment factors to private construction firms in the event of disaster. A semi...

Project Financing Initiative (PFI) projects require the private sector to invest an enormous amount of capital for the development of public projects. The private sector has to seek cost-effective financing sources for their survival in the long-term concession. Conventional financing uses widely; however, Islamic financing promises better financin...

Hospitals are themselves vulnerable to numerous types of disasters and can get damaged risking the lives of human being. To a certain extent, despite of hard resilience (structural and non-structural), human behavior is one of the contributing factors affecting the hospital’s capability in achieving disaster resilience. Hence, the objectives of the...

It has been observed that safety and project execution planning has been carried out separately for most Building Information Modelling (BIM)-Based projects. As such, it leads to difficulties for the construction parties to monitor both aspects of planning and safety during project implementation. In this regards, the Automated Safety Rule Checking...

Disaster events tend to affect construction organisations in the entire community. In the recent years, with the intensity and frequency of disaster occurrences in Malaysia, the impact of disaster could destruct construction organisational business, assets and properties. For instance, flood occurrence in 2011, has affected the double track constru...

Hospital disaster resilience assessment is a process of analysing the condition of the site, building, people and operations through a checklist of indicators (i.e., structural, non-structural and functional). As in 2011, Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction has been established with twofold objectives: 1) by 2011, assessments on the safety o...

Of late, Building Information Modelling (BIM) has been well established in the construction industry across the globe. Nevertheless, safety aspect is less contemplated when it comes to construction phase. Despite safety is one of the most decisive aspects in BIM development process, the model of Automated Safety Rule Checking (ASRC) system should b...

The adoption of Building Information Modeling (BIM) constitutes a paradigm shift in the architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) industry. Broader BIM adoption will transform construction processes to achieve greater efficiency to improve the quality of life (QOL) of construction stakeholders. This paper seeks to identify determinant facto...

The adoption of Building Information Modeling (BIM) constitutes a paradigm shift in the architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) industry. Broader BIM adoption will transform construction processes to achieve greater efficiency to improve the quality of life (QOL) of construction stakeholders. This paper seeks to identify determinant facto...

Building Information Modelling (BIM) is defined as a parametric modelling of a building containing a precise and relevant data needed to support the project phase activities. The Building Information Modelling Execution Plan (BEP) however emerges as an important business and managerial concern for BIM projects. BEP is an effective document to descr...

Building Information Modelling (BIM) has the potential to promote collaborative activities in the Malaysian construction industry. However, to date, BIM teams are still deficient in the collaboration process due to the client governing characteristics. The objective of this paper is to identify the client governing characteristics of the BIM-based...

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a systematic process used to model information involving the use of computer-generated (n-dimensional) software to simulate the planning, design, construction, and operation of a building. Currently, BIM technology is an important approach used by most project clients (public and private) to boost project effe...

Information and technology has produced large changes to construction industry and leads to innovative nations globally. Building Information Modeling (BIM) is one of the IT platforms to rely on the process of planning, design, construction, and operation of a building in 3D dimension to promote collaborative and integration between the parties in...

The issues of hospital disaster resilience have been discussed for more than 30 years across the globe and gaining its prominence in recent years, yet it remains poorly defined. The inappropriate choice of components for disaster resilience hospitals will contribute to disruption and cause the hospital vulnerable towards disasters. Hence, the objec...

BIM has existed for more than 20 years across the globe, yet the awareness and benefits of BIM has only been realized in last few years in construction projects. Nevertheless, in Malaysia the lack of details, ambiguity, fragmentations, and poor knowledge in executing BIM technology have hindered the building performance. Although the potential bene...

This paper reviewed on the green highway definition and green highway terminology to improve knowledge and awareness of green highway for highway construction projects. Moreover, this paper discussed briefly on the rating system for green highway by highlighting various eight rating systems for green highway. This study adopted the secondary data f...

Transportation infrastructure projects often involve considerable land use, long-term investment, and huge resource. These elements may cause serious impacts to the environment and social dislocation. Hence, its involvement towards sustainable development efforts is essential. This paper attempts (1) to review transportation infrastructure project...

The growth of global railway infrastructure development has encouraged many countries including Malaysia to develop railway as a key strategy to enhance the national transportation infrastructure and strengthen economic competitiveness. Nevertheless, the development of railway infrastructure projects demands massive land use, high cost, huge resour...

Construction industry is fragmented, involves a large number of stakeholders in a complex contractual structure, and variety of psychological human behaviours that expose to corrupt activities. Corruption is a deviant behaviour which deviates from normal duties of a public role, pecuniary, and violates official ethics of public services. The object...

The adoption of Building Information Modeling (BIM) constitutes a paradigm shift in the architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) industry. Broader BIM adoption will transform construction processes to achieve greater efficiency to improve the quality of life (QOL) of construction stakeholders. This paper seeks to identify determinant facto...

In the Design and Build (D&B) projects, there is an urge to implement an ‘integrated management approach’ as a solution to contractors’ poor service performances. Integration is the merging of different disciplines with different goals into a cohesive and mutually supporting concept. The objectives of this paper are: to investigate the concept of i...

Transparency is an essential precondition for containing corruption. Construction is prone to corruption as it involves a large number of participants. Corruption is a deviant behaviour of an individual that should be looked into.The objective of this paper is to study the behavioural factors that lead to corrupt acts based on the Model of Corrupt...

Transparency initiatives (TI) are essential elements to corruption and corrupt behavior. Corruption is a fiduciary crime that is believed to penetrate slowly into the construction sectors. Diverse characteristics of human behavior affect the attitude towards corrupt activities. The objectives are: (1) to investigate sources of corruption and (2) to...

Technology Transfer (TT) projects involve the cross-boarder transfer of technology with the main purpose of enhancing the local technological capabalities in response to a changing economic environment. Technological capability refers to an organisation’s capacity to deploy, develop and utilise technological resources and integrate them with other...

Transparency is one of the practical measures taken to curtail corruption. It is about the sharing of information of government decisions and activities, good record management and access to information. Whereas, integrity provides the basis for transparency and accountability since integrity is referred to as honesty and trustworthiness in the dis...

In a generic sense, when procuring Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects, value for money (VFM) assessment could be determined through a comparative analysis of contractors’ proposals against Public Sector Comparator (PSC) documentation. A PSC is a hypothetical framework used as a procurement strategy tool in evaluating VFM and has been a trade...

In general, many contractors in Malaysia are found to have a limited expertise in developing an appropriate strategy to mitigate project risks. Consequently, this has led contractors struggling to complete the project on schedule, within the client's budget and quality parameters. This was proven by the current issues on the delayed projects report...

Building defects are always the key concern in the construction projects. Defects represent not only a loss to the project but also hamper the smooth running of the building when in operation when completed. Recognising the need to resolve the continuing problem of defects in their projects, the clients of public hospital projects in Malaysia pilot...

Corruption in construction is a fiduciary crime that is believed to slowly penetrate the construction sectors in countries around the world. It that can reduce the efficiency, effectiveness and equity of infrastructure services that resulted in construction projects that is unnecessary, unsuitable, and defective. In order to control effectively the...

Of late, the concept of Value Management (VM) is becoming vital in the implementation of construction projects. Value Management is a systematic and innovative methodology with multi-disciplinary approach targeted to achieve better value of construction products. However, VM is criticized for the fact that it focused solely on value for money, lack...

The construction industry is still plagued by poor quality, poor workmanship, poor safety and health environment, and poor practices. The current main problem in the Malaysian Construction Industry is delayed projects under the Ninth Malaysia Plan. The idea of introducing formal risk assessment among Malaysian contractors during the project plannin...

The conceptualisation of absorptive capacity in technology transfer (TT) in construction organisations could occur simultaneously, involving the flow of imported technology (i.e., knowledge, skills and tools) via construction projects. The absorptive capacity is the ability of the firm to assimilate imported technology, depending on their organisat...

In general, many contractors in Malaysia are found to have a limited expertise in developing an appropriate strategy to mitigate project risks. Consequently, this has led contractors struggling to complete the project on schedule, within the client's budget and quality parameters. This was proven by the current issues on the delayed projects report...

Financial issues in construction projects lead to serious consequences that may retard the development of a project and influence the overall economical condition of a country. This paper addresses the issues of financial-related delays in construction projects. Aiming to determine the major causes of financial-related problems leading to construct...

The concept of technology transfer (TT) and technology exchange (TE) in construction projects can be viewed as a two-way flow which involves the transfer and exchange processes of different components of technology (i.e., knowledge, tools and skills). The transfer and exchange process could transpire at any given time or in a given project and coul...

Delay in construction projects is a common phenomenon and a costly problem. This paper addresses the issues of financial-related delays in construction projects. It identifies the root causes and scrutinises the suitable mitigation actions of financial-related project delays. Four main factors were identified in the literature, namely late payment,...

This paper reports on the findings of a study on value management (VM) applications in the Malaysian construction industry. A questionnaire survey of 7 pages was sent to 5581 numbers of registered developers, architects, engineers, quantity surveyors and project managers to seek their experience on VM applications. A return rate of 7.5 per cent or...

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The concept of value for money (VFM) is the fundamental reason for most PFI projects to be attractive in many developed and developing countries. The concept encourages governments to deliver Mega projects by using PFI procurement method. The aims of this paper are to investigate the notion of VFM for PFI projects by different countries (i.e. UK, A...

The International Technology Transfer (ITT) projects has emerged as an important business and managerial concern to many developing countries across the globe as well as Malaysia. ITT projects according to many researchers involve the cross-boarder transfer of technology with the main purpose to enhance the local technology capabalities in response...

Project effectiveness measures are normally used by most researchers and practitioners to judge project performance and project success. This paper provides an empirical analysis of measures of success in terms of effectiveness performance in the development of construction projects in Malaysia. A survey was conducted in Malaysia among the four pro...

Today’s competitive global environment has led governments around the world to seek new ways to finance projects, build infrastructure and deliver services. Private Finance Initiative (PFI) is increasingly being used as a tool to bring together the strengths of both sectors, public and private to facilitate the delivery of projects and services. Ho...

As a result of a rigorous concatenated exploratory research using mixed methodologies, sustainable Value Management (VM) Guidelines for the Malaysian construction industry were developed. It is hoped to assist the future driving force in the further development of VM in Malaysia as well as paving the way for better implementation of VM which promis...

In the manufacturing and construction industries, performance measurement is used as a systematic way of judging project performance by evaluating the inputs, outputs and the final project outcomes. However, very few companies systematically measure their performance in a holistic way. Moreover, the existing systems tend to focus more on product an...

Fundamentally, the notions of Value for Money (VFM) is associated with the concepts of whole life value of service provided for construction projects. VFM is associated in reducing life cycle costs; provide better allocation of risk, faster implementation, improved service quality and generating high revenue of the project outcomes. In achieving VF...