Rosli Mohamad zin

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia | UTM · Department of Structure and Materials

One of the main drawbacks of current simulation tools is inaccuracy and each simulation software has a set of different calculation algorithms, which is also prone to limitations and errors. Although the results can be achieved from running the simulation analysis, these results may not reflect the actual performance of a building in in real world...

Due to the increasing concerns about energy consumption and CO2 emissions, there is a growing need to improve the energy efficiency and performance of buildings. Saudi Arabia expressed the concern and building sector consume about 80% of total energy use. Mosque buildings were discovered to consume huge quantity of energy above many other building...

Based on visual observations for the emergency service facilities at the building location, it is known that several emergency service facilities are not available and do not comply with the provisions so that they are categorized as unsafe conditions. Therefore, it is necessary to know the safety factors for the comfort and security of the buildin...

The construction industry, for many decades, has been underperforming in terms of the success of project delivery. Construction delays have become typical of many construction projects leading to lawsuits, project termination, and ultimately dissatisfied stakeholders. Experts have highlighted the lack of adoption of modern technologies as a cause o...

The last half-century has witnessed an astronomical rise in the number of tall building projects in urban centers globally. These projects however frequently experience delays and total abandonment due to economic reasons. This study presents the application of Machine Learning techniques in the systematic development of a model to estimate the pre...

Building consumes 40% of global energy consumption which contributes for such a majority amount of carbon dioxide emission. Enhancing the energy efficiency strategies in buildings by retrofitting through different approaches is essential for reducing end user on the amount of energy consumption and carbon footprint emission. Previous research shows...

Recently, the number of mosques dramatically increased due to dramatic increase of urban and populations. About 3.6 million of mosques are spreading around the world and the number of mosques is expected to increase to 3.85 million in year 2019, which consume huge amount of energy. However, comparing to other building types, the searching in terms...

High-rise buildings, which have become significant parts of the urban habitat, are particularly notorious for delayed completion times. Though there exist a plethora of studies on construction delays, the problem is insufficient research on prescriptive methods to mitigate delays. This study sought to employ Machine Learning (ML) techniques to lear...

The frequent ongoing increase of energy consumption is a current issue world widely.There is a huge increase the energy consumption and big concern being adopted internationally through establishing several legislations. Buildings are the main cause of environmental issues that contribute to excessive resources usein both construction and operation...

The construction industry (CI) is one of the most hazardous where the specific behaviours of different stakeholders can be contrary to the conditions and safety behaviours in the construction process. Understanding the nature of this kind of uncertainty can reduce the level of inconsistency that reinforces the safety management system in CI. The pu...

The rapid development of the industry by enhancing the development of power plants, fertilizers, oil & gas operated by integrated construction companies or Engineering, Construction and Construction (EPC) companies, where EPC companies are required and have experience in planning and developing industrial projects. The higher technology and the sop...

The Highway development projects currently being implemented in West Sumatra, Indonesia is important in increasing the competitiveness in the country’s economy. At the same period, it will also give a positive impression such as being able to reduce the cost of transportation, increase the quality of life, the value of use and labour productivity....

The government, through CIDB Malaysia have continuously promoting Industrialised Building System (IBS) to increase the immense efficiency of the building performance structure. However, the level of IBS adoption among the construction players in Malaysia is still low and far from the government expectation. It is evident that most of the IBS projec...

The construction industry in West Sumatra, Indonesia is experiencing a serious challenge since the occurrence of the devastating earthquake in September 2009. The Infrastructures including residential housing, government offices, roads and bridges were damaged and destroyed. The major problems facing the construction industry is mostly related...

The post-earthquake housing redevelopment projects success will be much affected when facing with labor, technical staff and experts who are not competent in their field. Moreover, materials scarce supply can cause poor quality of work. At the same time poor community involvement and other important factors that may hinder the project success. Asse...

Risky projects such as tall buildings have suffered an alarming rate of increase in delays and total abandonment. Though numerous delay studies predominate, what is lacking is constructive research to develop tools and techniques to wrestle the inherent problem. Consequently, this paper presents the development of a machine learning model for delay...

Conventional building materials (CBMs) made from non-renewable resources are the main source of indoor air contaminants, whose impact can extend from indoors to outdoors. Given their sustainable development (SD) prospect, green building materials (GBMs) with non-toxic, natural, and organic compounds have the potential to reduce their overall impact...

The construction industry continues to suffer from efficiency and productivity losses such as delays. The effects of delays may include time and cost overruns, litigation and project abandonment. Thus, the global research domain is saturated with studies investigating the causes of construction delay. However, despite the rising trend of constructi...

Successful implementation of the lean concept as a sustainable approach in the construction industry requires the identification of critical drivers in lean construction. Despite this significance, the number of in-depth studies toward understanding the considerable drivers of lean construction implementation is quite limited. There is also a short...

Infrastructure is the backbone of economic growth, which should be resurrected through green competency to rethink the infrastructure strategy and economic prosperity in dealing with local and global issues. There are several linkages such as energy efficiency between Green Infrastructure (GI) and Green Economy (GE) which have absolutely delivered...

The green term, as the concurrence of opinion between infrastructure and economy, has the ability to integrate natural resources and environmental services into the national income and wealth account. However, the mutual effects of green infrastructure (GI) and green economy (GE) are not always clear. This study aims to develop the influences of GI...

This paper concerns an investigation into the causes of cost overrun in the construction industry of China. Cost overrun is common in all the countries of the world. For example, China has been experiencing severe cost overrun problem in the construction industry. The aim of the paper is to evaluate the major factors giving impact on cost component...

This study aim to assessing and investigate the construction process of damaged houses during the rehabilitation and reconstruction phases due to the 2009 West Sumatran Earthquake. Community empowerment approach is adopted considering its sustainability to strengthen the capacity of community in order to reduce disaster risk. The community empowerm...

Making decisions about the selection of energy efficiency building construction is one of the sustainable construction key. Therefore it is crucial to identify criteria that can influence the choice of energy efficient common building structure systems. The main purpose of this paper explores the energy efficiency criteria for common building struc...

The rapid development of the industry by enhancing the development of power plants, fertilizers, oil & gas operated by integrated construction companies or Engineering, Construction and Construction (EPC) companies, where EPC companies are required and have experience in planning and developing industrial projects. The higher technology and the sop...

The Highway development projects currently being implemented in West Sumatra, Indonesia is important in increasing the competitiveness in the country's economy. At the same period, it will also give a positive impression such as being able to reduce the cost of transportation, increase the quality of life, the value of use and labour productivity....

Global economic trends have shown the progression of social inequalities and environmental deterioration in the grey economy. New economic practices and policies need to be developed in order to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs). A green economy (GE) has a correlative role with the implementation of sustainable development (SD), whic...

The construction industry in West Sumatra, Indonesia is experiencing a serious challenge since the occurrence of the devastating earthquake in September 2009. The Infrastructures including residential housing, government offices, roads and bridges were damaged and destroyed. The major problems facing the construction industry is mostly related to p...

Highway infrastructure emits large quantities of carbon dioxide over the entire life cycle including emission from production of raw materials and also emission from construction, operation, maintenance, and rehabilitation of the roads which contributes towards Green House Gases (GHG) emission. The past emission trends of carbon dioxide from these...

Abstract. Carbon dioxide that emitted throughout the construction lifespan is crucial from development of design, construction, up to demolition stage. Focusing in the rehabilitation of highway pavement, the activities that normally involved are from milling, roller up to dumping the wastes asphalts. The aim of this paper is to estimate the carbon...

The aim of this paper is to estimate the carbon footprint emission in the unit of tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents (t CO2-eq/km-lane). This estimate the carbon footprint (CO2-eq) emission based on five selected projects in north–south expressway of Malaysia. The results show that highest carbon footprint is from Mill and Pave 250 mm (MP 250) wi...

Rest and service areas are located along the highway which its function is to provide 24 hours' service for passengers traveling along the highway. Reducing the amount of end use energy and enhance energy efficiency in buildings are the essential strategies to inaugurates the impact to the environment. The aim of this paper is to indicate the poten...

Malaysia has committed to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by up to 45% by the 2030. With increasing urbanisation and living standards of people in Malaysia, there is certainty that there will be a substantial increase in human activities hence mobility via networks of the highway. Rest and Service Area (RSA) is one important facility of t...

Making a decision to select building structural components is one of the sustainable construction keys. Extensive reviews of the literature revealed that despite various studies being carried out focusing on the selection of building component alternatives, it was found that none have focused on the selection of building component alternatives base...

Major cities in developing countries are undergoing an enormous migration of peoples from countryside regions. This migration from the countryside regions were mostly to develop carrier and expecting for higher salary for their living survival. Consequently, the large amount of immigrants from countryside to the cities each year had created a great...

The sustainable development is a vital measure to alleviate the greenhouse gas effect, global warming and any other environment issues. The sustainable neighbourhood concept is not new in Malaysia, However, the concept still needs attention and awareness from the stakeholders. This paper discusses on the sustainable neighbourhood elements specifica...

In Malaysia, flash floods are common occurrences throughout the year in flood prone areas. In terms of flood extent, flash floods affect smaller areas but because of its tendency to occur in densely urbanized areas, the value of damaged property is high and disruption to traffic flow and businesses are substantial. However, in river floods especial...

Construction of infrastructure project is different from buildings. The main difference is term of project site where infrastructure project need to command a long stretch while building mostly confine to a limited area. As such factors that are critical to infrastructure project may not be that significant to building project and vice versa. Flood...

From time to time, the maintenance works become more challenging due to construction of new building and also aging of the existing buildings. University buildings without any exception require proper maintenance services to support their function requirements and this can be considered as major responsibilities to be fulfilled by the maintenance d...

Industrialised Building System (IBS) is more sustainable to the environment as compared to the conventional construction methods. However, the construction industry in Malaysia has low acceptance towards IBS due to the resistance to change and also lack of awareness towards sustainability development. Therefore, it is important to study the amount...

Oil and gas construction projects are complex and risky because of their dynamic environment. Furthermore, rising global energy demand has increased the need for trustworthy risk assessment models for such projects that can provide adequate and precise policy planning. Traditional risk assessments in oil and gas construction projects do not conside...

In day to day life concrete become a compulsory material in the construction field as to make it a real concern among the researchers for producing concrete with improved properties. Biological method is one of the new methods to improve concrete properties. Although, many research about biological concrete have been carried out, but till now nobod...

Risk management is one of the most essential and significant part of construction projects due to assuring the attainment of project goals. Because of increasing global energy, more attention is needed to be paid towards risk management in oil and gas companies. The aim of this study is to improve the implementation of risk management within contra...

Green highway is a highway project that has been designed and constructed with the sustainability requirements and global standard. Basically, green highway is one of the major parts for sustainable concept where three major aspects are addressed which are economic, social and environment. The main focus for economic aspect is to increase profitabi...

The building sector is widely known for its greenhouse gas and carbon emission which is very significant to the global warming as observed in recent years. Many research works highlighted that buildings has a negative impact on the society as it consumes up to 80% of the total energy used during operation stage. In Malaysia, electricity energy cons...

Sustainability has become an important initiative discussed and undertaken, not only by private buildings, but also by public buildings which both dealing with residential, office, commercial as well as hospital. Sustainable building is the practice of designing, constructing, operating, maintaining, and removing buildings in ways that conserve nat...

Concrete has become as one of the common material in the construction sector, which makes it of great interest to the researchers in pursuit for the production of concrete with better properties. This is mainly because the existing concrete has several limitations in terms of strength, ductility, durability and resistance to cracking. To overcome t...

Project success is a fundamental issue for any planning, design and construction development. Thus, it effects the stakeholders which involve government, developer, constructor and communities as the end users. Critical success factors (CSFs) have been key aspects of a construction project which are considered to be a means to improve the effective...

Nowadays, application of electronic commerce is increasing in commercial fields; this includes procurement process which introduced e-Tendering in construction industry. e-Tendering concept is to engage lesser paperwork and provide higher transparency in every transaction of procurement process. The aim of this paper is to study ethical issues rela...

This paper provides an insight into a new biotechnological method based on calcite precipitation for achieving high strength bio-concrete durability. It is very clear that mineral precipitation has the potential to enhance construction material resistance towards degradation procedures. The appropriate microbial cell concentra-tion (30 * 10 5 cells...

Buildings consume up to 40% of the total global energy. By the year 2030, the consumption is expected to increase to 50%. In Malaysia, buildings consume a total of 48% of the electricity generated in the country. Commercial buildings consume up to 38,645 Giga watts (GWh) while Residential buildings consume 24,709 Gwh. Demand for electricity in the...

Oman as one of the Arabian Gulf countries which have invested billions of dollars in the construction industries, infrastructural services and real estate, but it is clearly identified that risk assessment was not applied for once on these awarded contracts. Lack of knowledge and awareness of risk management or assessment procedures in the construc...

Building construction systems that come in different forms and types need to be properly selected before being use, this may have different impact on overall embodied energy of the building construction. Hence, in order to achieve and maximize the construction contribution, the designer plays a big role in choosing the appropriate energy efficient...

Since the effect of global warming and climate changes are becoming serious issues nowadays, most countries are trying to develop their own green highway rating system in order to implement the sustainable practices on their highway.Several studies have discussed the issues relating to the sustainable rating system, but no major study has been cond...

A green highway is fundamental for the infrastructure to be environmentally responsible and sustainable in all aspects. The need for promoting sustainability and green highway construction requires an assessment system. The Green Highway Assessment provides a management and technical approach for highway life-cycle from construction to its maintena...

A group decision must be made when a design process is conducted by more than one person. In this situation, negotiation plays an important role in many design decision. Value Management (VM) is one of design decision methodology in construction. By involving multi disciplines, collaboration and teamwork, negotiation becomes an important role on VM...

The Malaysian government has highlighted liberalization for seventeen (17) service sub-sectors in phases, including architectural and engineering services. Liberalization offers opportunities to transfer of capital, expertise, and technology to domestic firms to expand business. As a result, the local Engineering Consultancy Practices are facing ch...

All construction professionals such as civil, mechanical, and electrical engineers, quantity surveyors, and architects have important roles in the construction process. Among these, architects are frequently appointed as a project manager (PM). The role of a PM will drive the success of the projects implementation. Therefore, the capability of an a...

According to the sustainability principles, building should have zero-embodied energy in order to minimize the amount of carbon. In previous practices, construction materials have been composed with non-recyclable materials and after demolition of buildings the debris were put on different landfills. Nowadays, most of the material manufacturers hav...

Self-healing concretes are being widely recognized as a remedial technique to improve the durability of concrete. Although, few review papers on self-healing concrete were published, a strong review on all aspects of self-healing concrete cannot be found. In this paper, natural, chemical and biological processes of self-healing concrete technologie...

As the premier construction material across the world, concrete has a major determining role on the effects, good or bad, of construction on the environment, meanwhile the formwork system is one of the important construction methods in building construction, which eventually will lead to more sustainable construction. This study is about the sustai...

Environmental aspect is one of the important criteria that define and determine sustainability performance for concrete formwork system. This study is aimed to compare the performance of the most common types of formwork system "Conventional Formwork &Steel Formwork System"in responding to environment category of sustainability development using qu...

The decision making for risk allocation problems in public–private partnership (PPP) projects is a vital process that directly affects the timeliness, cost, and quality of the project. Fair risk allocation is a vital factor to achieve success in the implementation of these projects. It is essential for private and public sectors to apply efficient...

Economic efficiency is an important factor in seismic rehabilitation of road infrastructures. An inventory of structures is screened to identify seismically deficient parts and prioritise them in the order of need for rehabilitation purposes. In most cases, the financial resources for road infrastructure rehabilitation projects are limited. Therefo...

Energy is an important element in human life. Previous study discovered that buildings consumed more than 40% of global energy mainly electricity and emit 1/3 of global greenhouse gas through combustion of fossil fuels for generating electricity. Nowadays, global warming come to be a major issue facing the world and it leads to a better awareness a...

This study investigated two indigenous micro-organisms that can be isolated from soil. The isolated micro-organisms could precipitate calcium carbonate. These micro-organisms were applied to design self-healing concretes. Concrete is one of the most important materials which is used to build structures. Strength and durability of concrete is very i...