Mat Naim Abdullah @ Mohd Asmoni's research while affiliated with Universiti Teknologi Malaysia and other places

... The impact of "perfect maintenance" activities is easy to analyze, but the majority of preventive maintenance actions adopted in the real world are "imperfect", i.e., the maintenance action re-establishes the degradation condition of the element to a level between "as-good-asnew" and "as-bad-as-old" [6,37,38]. To analyze the impact of maintenance actions on the durability of buildings and their components, the actions carried out over the years must be known in detail, but the lack of reliable information is one of the main barriers encountered in this kind of research [12,[39][40][41][42][43]. Usually, as discussed by Ruparathna, Hewage and Sadiq [10], this topic is evaluated indirectly through planning and cost analysis. ...

... Modern life especially in urbanized areas is associated with the usual issues of congestion, space constraints and socio-economic problems which makes planning and design a vital aspect in developing compact urban areas. It should be viewed and approached with the perspective of sustainability within the context of a modern culture and lifestyle (Barrett, 2000; Shaari, Abdullah Mohd Asmoni, Afiq Lokman, Abdul Hamid, & Mohammed, 2015). Religious buildings, including temples, churches, synagogues and mosques have always been one of the integral components of the urban layout (Ayhan & Mert Cubukcu, 2010). ...