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The government of Malaysia has a vision to become a fully developed country by the year 2020, and... more The government of Malaysia has a vision to become a fully developed country by the year 2020, and the construction industry has a significant role to play in assisting the government to achieve this vision. In order to become an advanced country, the construction players in Malaysia need to be globally competitive, and encouraging innovation in the industry is a key aspect of this is and provides the rationale for the roundtable discussion workshop this paper describes. The main objectives of this roundtable discussion were to establish the Building Information Modelling (BIM) task force, provide a platform for industry experts to discuss BIM issues, share knowledge and information and work collaboratively, and to provide recommendations for policy makers for further enhancements of the construction industry. The exploratory roundtable discussion was used as the research method. This roundtable discussion demonstrated the lack of understanding of BIM by the construction industry in ...

This research investigates the collaboration problems faced by the construction industry as a res... more This research investigates the collaboration problems faced by the construction industry as a result of the traditional, sequential ways in which its practitioners work, and proposes nD modelling as a new approach for multi-disciplinary teams. The life-cycle of a building - from its design, construction, use, maintenance and demolition - requires and generates a large amount of information from both the supply and demand sides. The individual components that a building is comprised of have mutually reflexive relationships with one another and so changes to one parameter in a design can have positive and negative impacts upon one or more of the other components. However, the sequential way in which practitioners traditionally work, in separate, discipline-defined silos means that they are often unaware of the nature and effects of these relationships. This has resulted in the UK in a construction industry that is characterised by fragmentation and poor communication (Egan, 1998). The...

AIP Conference Proceedings, 2018

International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology, 2013

Contents 3. Foreword 4. Acknowledgments and contributions 5. 1st International workshop 5. 2nd In... more Contents 3. Foreword 4. Acknowledgments and contributions 5. 1st International workshop 5. 2nd International workshop 16. 1.0 2nd International nD Modelling Workshop: An Introduction 17. 1.2 nD modelling 19. 2.0 nD modelling development 22. 3.0 2nd International nD modelling workshop aims & objectives 23. 3.1 Data analysis method 25. 4.0 nD-Enabled Construction Industry: Current research & development activities 26. 4.1 Discussion issues: barriers & drivers for development, the relationships between them, and implementation of nD modelling 28. 4.1.1 Barriers 30. 4.1.2 Enablers & Drivers 4.1.3 Relationships between the Barriers, Enablers & Drivers 30. 4.1.3 Relationships between the Barriers, Enablers & Drivers 31. 4.1.4 Actions and Policy Actions for Change 34. 5.0 nD-Enabled Construction Projects and 5.1 Process and data 35. 5.2 Education & training 36. 5.3 Interoperability issues 37. 6.0 Skills and Competencies for the Future 39. 7.0 Workshop summary and road map for nD modelling 41. 7.1 nD modelling road map 42. 7.1.1 nD modelling research framework 44. 7.1.2 nD modelling technology framework 45. 8.0 Summary 47. Appendices 47. Appendix A: nD related papers published thus far Refereed journal Papers 53. Appendix B: nD related funding generated thus far 54. Appendix C: Research Papers The ARK Smart Information System 62. Engineering Assessment made Easy: The 'Energysave' Approach 70. The Virtual Construction Site (VIRCON) Tools: An Industrial Evaluation 84. Application of nD Modelling for Improving Construction Safety 92. Modelling and Visualisation of Information and Knowledge in the Construction Industry 97. Improving Application Resiliency in the Face of Imperfect Information 104. Appendix D: 2nD international workshop sponsors 105. Salford Centre for Research and Innovation (SCRI) 106. Project participants and contributions This report would not have been able to be produced without the invaluable contribution from the attendees of the 2 academic, 1 national, and 2 international workshops: Academic workshops

Address & contact details for Jerome Abstract: This paper reports on the ongoing IntelCities (Int... more Address & contact details for Jerome Abstract: This paper reports on the ongoing IntelCities (Intelligent Cities- IST no. 507860) integrated project, which commenced in January 2004 that seeks to integrate e-governance and e-urban planning. IntelCities is still at a formative stage and the paper seeks to explain the background, the research questions and preliminary design of prototyping studies to be carried out in the cities of Marseille,

Conference Proceedings of the 14th International Postgraduate Research Conference 2019: Contempor... more Conference Proceedings of the 14th International Postgraduate Research Conference 2019: Contemporary and Future Directions in the Built Environment

Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience

Building Information Modeling is an innovative technology coupled with process and human interact... more Building Information Modeling is an innovative technology coupled with process and human interactions. BIM has been used by the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry in developed and developing countries including Malaysia. This paper aims to explore the BIM implementation in Malaysian Construction Industry. This paper begins with a literature review and then reports on the findings of case studies of selected Malaysian construction organizations, carried out with the aim to explore on existing BIM implementation establishing on the BIM applications, BIM benefits, and BIM future challenges. The review highlights on several BIM benefits regarding financial, better information, communication and coordination, respond to complexity, improved visual, improved sustainability, improved safety and also create service’s or business’s opportunities. Case study findings indicate that the BIM implementation in projects are still limited and requires more efforts to be made...

The multi-disciplinary EPSRC funded SURegen project is developing a digital decision support aid ... more The multi-disciplinary EPSRC funded SURegen project is developing a digital decision support aid that will capture good practice in sustainable urban regeneration for use by practitioners for real time decision-making, training and education purposes. It will achieve this by identifying the key decision points in the early stages of the regeneration process, such as diagnosis and visioning, and simulating a variety of decision impacts or outcomes. This paper will provide detail about the development of the project"s general approach and technical methodology, its data collection techniques and the important role that the project"s industrial partners are playing in ensuring that the project delivers a tool that is both contextually specific to the Manchester case studies whilst providing good practice examples of interest to regeneration throughout the UK and beyond. It provides details of the outcomes of a recent workshop exploring the project partners" aspirations a...

AIP Conference Proceedings, 2018

International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology, 2013

Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience

UDMS 2004, 2004

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are commonly used information systems to plan and manage t... more Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are commonly used information systems to plan and manage the urban built environment. Some urban management tasks; disaster management, delivery of goods and services, detailed city visualisation, and demolition planning require a detailed visualisation and/or a high level of information about buildings. In contrast, the buildings in a geographical information system are typically represented with their 2D geometries with a height value, and the layers that represent the building do not contain detailed information about building elements. The current state of art in, representation of building information in GIS, and transfer of building information to GIS is not sufficient enough, for developing a successful GIS based system to manage these urban management tasks. To provide a higher level of building related information to the GIS and to manage this information in a GIS environment, the research is focused on finding ways and methods, for transferring an industry standard building information model to a GIS environment. This paper reviews the technology about building information models, investigates approaches to implementing an IFC model in a GIS, proposes implementation methods and explains these methods in light of two scenarios.