Norngainy Mohd Tawil

The Impact of Anthropogenic Heat on Formation of Urban Heat Island and Energy Consumption Balance

This paper investigates the impact of anthropogenic heat on formation of urban heat island (UHI) and also determines which factors can directly affect energy use in the city. It explores literally the conceptual framework of confliction between anthropogenic heat and urban structure, which produced UHI intensity and affected energy consumption balance. It then discusses how these two factors can be affected and gives implication to the city and then focuses on whether actions should be taken for balancing adaptation and mitigation of UHI effects. It will be concluded by making the three important strategies to minimise the impact of UHI on energy consumption: landscaping, using albedo materials on external surfaces of buildings and urban areas, and promoting natural ventilation.

A survey on classification of maintenance fund for high rise residential building in Klang Valley

High-rise residential building is a type of housing that has multi-dwelling units built on the same land. This type of housing has become popular each year in urban area due to the increasing cost of land. Unfortunately, there are several issues occurred in managing high rise residential building especially in maintenance fund. Thus, distribution of maintenance fund need to be clarified in order to make it well organised. The purpose of this paper is to identify the classification of maintenance fund distribution at high rise residential building. The survey was done on 170 high-rise residential schemes by using stratified random sampling technique. The scope of this research is within Klang Valley area. This area is rapidly developed with high-rise residential building. The result, there are five classification of maintenance fund identified in managing high-rise residential building scheme namely, management fund for administration and utilities, maintenance fund for exclusive facilities, maintenance fu...

Common Defects of Lavatory Space in Institutions of Higher Learning: Analysis of Building Condition Survey

AbstractLavatory-based facilities or lavatory space is an important basic facility of any building. Its functional importance, as well as additional components and facilities to support its function, contrast with other spaces in a building. The uniqueness of lavatory space can be seen after the building is occupied. At this stage, issues relating to its maintenance emerge—in public buildings in particular, including lavatories in higher education institutions. Because of the large number of visitors and staff, lavatories in public buildings and the corresponding high intensity of use, breakdown of, or malfunction of lavatories are common. Hence, use and maintenance of lavatory space is often argued. Cleanliness and functionality is the main goal of lavatory maintenance. In the life cycle of lavatory maintenance, certain stages of building inspection are needed to ensure the physical status of the building. In a wider context, the theory of building assessment also emphasizes the inspection of the buildin...

Enhancing small medium enterprises opportunity through online portal system

This paper discuss on developing a system called Entreportfolio as an effort to help entrepreneurs create industry networks quickly and easily via online system. The target users are mainly entrepreneurs including startup, SME, agencies and researcher. By collecting entrepreneurs profile in a system and connects entrepreneurial agencies, SMEs and researcher under one stop center, this system is linked to every users. From the research, Entreportfolio highlight the important aspects require by the entrepreneurs to build networking and assess the progress of the business as a resource for entrepreneurs. Users were categorized dependent on business categories such as sport, food, beauty and health, services, automotive and others. The profile store information of their business progress hence enables collaborative networking between each user. Users can update their business profile and display activities to acknowledge their business to other user. Apart from that, the system provides Online Business Simulation (OBS) serve as a business training to sharpen the skills of the users. OBS is an advance simulation game to help startups familiar with the business situation particularly in operation, marketing and finance. In order to help the startup, entreportfolio linked to business incubator provided by entrepreneurial centers, at the same time encourage other entrepreneurs to voluntarily contribute any types of entrepreneurial facilities to the startups. Entreportfolio pilot study aims to create users interdependencies in entrepreneurship.

Classification of basic facilities for high-rise residential: A survey from 100 housing scheme in Kajang area

High demand for housing and limited land in town area has increasing the provision of high-rise residential scheme. This type of housing has different owners but share the same land lot and common facilities. Thus, maintenance works of the buildings and common facilities must be well organized. The purpose of this paper is to identify and classify basic facilities for high-rise residential building hoping to improve the management of the scheme. The method adopted is a survey on 100 high-rise residential schemes that ranged from affordable housing to high cost housing by using a snowball sampling. The scope of this research is within Kajang area, which is rapidly developed with high-rise housing. The objective of the survey is to list out all facilities in every sample of the schemes. The result confirmed that pre-determined 11 classifications hold true and can provide the realistic classification for high-rise residential scheme. This paper proposed for redefinition of facilities provided to create a bet...

Condition Monitoring Framework Based on the Cause of Mosque Physical Defects in Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya

AbstractThis study has been performed to build a condition-monitoring framework of mosque physical conditions based on the cause of the defects in question. The study sample is four mosques in Malaysia: two in Kuala Lumpur and two in Putrajaya. A total of 2,276 defects were recorded. Test results of one-way analysis of variances (ANOVA) at p=0.000 (p<0.05) shows a difference of significant difference of defect causes on the level of mosque physical conditions. The biggest difference stems from the usage factor with remedial/construction, while the smallest is from usage with environment, with mean difference values of 0.625 and 0.510, respectively. This means the level of mosque physical conditions is influenced primarily by usage factor, followed by environment and remedial/construction. Usage factors consist of impact damage/vandalism, change of use, and normal wear; environment includes artificial movement/vibration, natural movement/vibration, and aging; and remedial/construction includes material sel...

Development of Microcontroller Based Potentiometric Transduction Circuit for a Continuous Fluid Level Sensor

This paper presents the development of microcontroller based potentiometric transduction circuit for a continuous fluid level sensor. The purpose system involved the integration between hardware and software subsystem. For hardware subsystem, the design of potentiometric circuit was tested with theoretical computation, simulation on Proteus VSM software and breadboard circuit. This finding was then used to develop interface for the analog-to-digital converter. For software subsystem, the water level indicator system has been developed using ATMEGA2560 by converting the output from potentiometric circuit into water level with a look-up table. It computes the digital data conversion into desired reading and displays data through the second hardware subsystem which is liquid crystal display. A potentiometric indicator for a continuous fluid level sensor to detect level of water ponding on the flat roof was developed. It was comprised of a potentiometric transduction stage and follower stage. From the experiment, it was shown that the potentiometric circuit designed was able to report changes in the water in a different level. The integration of the continuous fluid level sensor with the potentiometric indicator system will have a significant impact on the practice of sensor integration.

Flat Roof Defect: Preliminary Condition Survey for Water Ponding Monitoring

Roof is among defect-prone building part as it exposed to natural factor especially rainfall and sunlight. Thus, the inspection on roof part must be done more frequent compare to other parts of building. However, roof is the most difficult part to inspect because of limited access and safety concern. This paper presents the result of preliminary condition survey for water ponding monitoring on flat roof surface and discussion on the solving method. The survey has been carried out on flat roof of an academic building in Penang, Malaysia on a rainy day. Based on the condition survey, we found that water ponding occurs on some parts of the flat roof. Water ponding on flat roof will cause moisture problem that trigger severe problem on building. Since water ponding problem ineffectively do monitor by traditional method, we proposed to design an intelligent system to monitor water ponding problem on flat roof. By using an intelligent system, water ponding existence can be detected at a real-time. Furthermore, the system is time saving, manpower saving and the data can be manage systematically without the presence of surveyor on site.

An overview of business simulation system for Malaysian entrepreneur

Business simulation system can be a guideline to new entrepreneurs for business start-up. Simulation system attracts people to learn and have a better understanding about entrepreneurship. This system will give the scenario of business simulation system in Malaysia culture in comparison with Mogul simulation from Oaktree, USA and Practice Enterprises Network (PEN) from Germany. The model aimed to develop the integration of business strategy in marketing, operation and finance suitable for entrepreneur in Malaysia. The objective of this research is to determine variables and parameters in developing a business simulation system model which suit Malaysian entrepreneur needs. Knowing how to strategize your product is one of the key in this business simulation system. It is not easy for the beginners to know how to put the price in example for their new product? To determine how many workers they should hire? How big is the space they needed to operate the business? Many questions can be answered by this simulation system. It will help them to explore by themselves the possible prices, the marketing that they should choose for different type of quality. In financing their business, where can they find the source? This research will try to develop a model and accommodate Malaysian entrepreneur as well as the students who learn entrepreneurial to get a clear picture on how to manage their own business by self-learning. The significance of the simulation system is to attract interest in entrepreneurial learning course. It is effective to assist the start-up entrepreneurs with minimal knowledge on business, accounting and financing.

Sustainable green inner-wall design for flexible floor plan

The rises of house price in the market is so drastic that it effects the younger generation nowadays especially young executives and young couples who could not afford to buy their first home. The factors that determine the house price presumably are the interior and exterior structural of the house itself. So to lessen the house price, we have to minimize the usage of wet construction thus the idea of having a sustainable green inner-wall implemented into the house with a flexible floor plan. This concept is user-friendly as it is built on needs and the ownerships affordability. They can design the interior of the house however they want with using minimal cost because it does not involve wet construction.