Professor Sr Ts. Dr. Syahrul Nizam was born in Klang, Selangor and married to a wonderful wife blessed with three children, Amierul Danish, Sarah Nuha and Ahmad Darwish. Syahrul starts his built environment career when completing a Certificate in Building Services Engineering from Polytechnic Jitra, Kedah (POLIMAS) in 1994. Upon completing his course, he has been a practical technician at the Holiday Inn Shah Alam for 6 months. During his training, Syahrul has been exposed to hands on and management works on maintenance aspects. After completing his studies at POLIMAS, Syahrul have been employed by a Civil & Structure Consultant which company was based in Petaling Jaya. Syahrul have been in the company for 11/2 years as an Autocad-Operator (Draught Person). Due to high enthusiasm and encouragement for continuing studies, Syahrul have been offered a place at University Science of Malaysia entering BSc. (Hons) Housing, Building & Planning course majoring in Building Technology in 1997. Looking at opportunities and support given by the university, Syahrul have continued his studies to the Masters level on Building Technology soon after graduating his first degree in 2000. Upon completing his degree course, Syahrul carried out a practical training as a civil engineer at Majlis Perbandaran Klang. During his training, he has been exposed with building design, procurement and government procedures that leads him to successfully completed the process of designing and tendering for the construction of 20 Units Food Complex in Klang, Selangor. On leaving the University Science of Malaysia in 2001, Syahrul joined Corak Petikan Sdn. Bhd, a construction company based in Kedah as a Building Coordinator. From this company, Syahrul moved to join a public listed company Negara Properties (M) Berhad in 2002 as the Management Trainee. During this period, he has applied his extensive knowledge in building design, construction materials, construction management and procurements procedures in managing and supervising a construction project located at Nilai, Negeri Sembilan. Due to Syahrul great emphasize and interest on research field, Syahrul left his working environment and sailed for United Kingdom to undergo a research on buildings. Syahrul Nizam enrol as a PhD student at UMIST which is now University of Manchester in 2003 and later graduated in 2006 in the field of Facilities & Building Performances. During his studies, he has been actively involved in sports, social activities as well as research arena serving as Housing Bureau, Vice President of Malaysian Research Group, UK to name a few. Pursuing his career as academia, Syahrul Nizam joint University of Malaya on the 27th December 2007 and currently attached to the Building Surveying Department, Faculty of Built Environment. His expertise is in the field of Facilities & Building Performance. Prof. Syahrul currently holds over 150 publications in several ISI (WoS)/Scopus indexed journal as well as in reputable international and national journal. Prof. Syahrul is also the executive editor of the Journal of Surveying, Construction and Property, regional editorial for Journal of Facilities Management, UK (Emerald) and member of the editorial board for several international and local journals. Prof. Syahrul is also a Registered Building Surveyor, RISM; Professional Technologist, MBoT; Certified Facilities Management Manager, CIDB and Qualified Professional MyCrest, CIDB. Prof. Syahrul has made his present with the industry through his appointment as expert panel, technical advisors and committee members for JKR, CIDB, ISO as well several other government agencies and private organizations. Prof. Syahrul has received several awards including Outstanding Paper Award 2011 by Emerald UK, ISM Excellence Award: Best Article 2011and 2016 and Top Building Surveying Author in The Malaysian Surveyor 2013 and 2016 to name a few. Recently, Prof. Syahrul was awarded the Order of Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah, S.I.S (Darjah Kebesaran Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah) by his Royal Sultan Selangor marking him as one of the high-ranking individuals who have contributed excellence to the Sultan of Selangor and His Majesty's Government. Professor Sr Ts. Dr. Syahrul Nizam has always being up to date with the current development and actively conducting research in the field of built environment nationally as well as internationally. Apart from numerous internal/local/ministry research grants, Prof. Syahrul has been given the trust to conduct a national level research by Construction Research Institute of Malaysia (CREAM) research arm under Construction Industry Development Board of Malaysia (CIDB) in developing Facilities Management Strategies in Malaysia. Under partnership with University of Manchester, UK, Prof. Syahrul was awarded a research grant under Newton Ungku Omar Fund by the British Council to look into Sustainability through Building Information Modeling (BIM) leading to the creation of the future cities for the UK and Malaysia. Moving on, Prof. Syahrul has led a team in developing Building Information Modelling Facilities Management training modules for CIDB. Currently, Prof. Syahrul is leading a research team in developing Electronic Energy Benchmarking System (EeBS) funded by JKR Malaysia.
show more »Professor Ir. Dr. U. Johnson Alengaram is the Director of the Centre for Innovative Construction Technology (CICT), a Research Centre under the Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is listed among the top 2% world’s scientists by Stanford University through Elsevier Data Repository, and also the recipient of outstanding achievement awards in most of the Institutions he served. He has been serving as research fund evaluator of different countries that include, South American, Asian, and European countries. He is also recognized external examiner for doctoral theses and evaluator for promotional exercises. His industrial collaboration resulted in bringing research projects from industries to solve some of the imperative issues in material, mechanical, durability and structural properties. He is a Chartered Civil Engineer of the world-renowned Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE, UK) and the Engineering Council (UK); he is also a Companion Member of the Institution of Engineers Malaysia (CIEM), and a member of the American Concrete Society (ACI-Kuala Lumpur Chapter) and a life member of the Concrete Society of Malaysia (CSM). His current Web of Science (WoS) h-index stands at 49 based on the publication of over 186 journal articles from Web of Science Core Collection. He started University of Malaya's Institution of Civil Engineers Student Chapter (UMICESC) in 2014 and currently, he is the staff Advisor; UMICESC serves as the professional student body for the undergraduate students to enhance their professional attributes, so they can strive towards becoming CEng MICE after gradutation and an appropriate training. In his Master of Engineering in Structural Engineering, as part of his MEng thesis, he utilized jute as a sustainable replacement material for conventional wood. His MEng research project was acclaimed as one of the best innovative works and the specimens of his research project-Jute Sandwiched Plywood were displayed at the International Exhibition held in Delhi, India. Dr Manmohan Singh, former Prime Minister of India (then Union Finance Minister) who inaugurated the exhibition had a special word for his work on jute; he continued his research for his doctoral research using sustainable industrial by-products and investigated mechanical and structural behaviour that provided in-sight into vital characteristics on the ductility behaviour of oil palm shells-that he went on to develop as a blast-resistant concrete-using oil palm shell as a whole replacement for normal aggregate. Professor Ir. Dr. U. Johnson Alengaram has been in academic, consultancy, research, and administration for over twenty-five years and contributed to society in different capacities in India, Bahrain, and Malaysia. His current research involves the utilization of industrial by-products, low-carbon footprint materials, and waste materials in the development of one-part geopolymer, low-carbon cement, limestone calcinated clay cement (LC3) in mortar and concrete; other research aspects include lightweight aggregate, material characteristics, crack-healing mortar using microalgae, lightweight aggregate concrete, foamed concrete, geopolymer concrete and impact & blast-resistant concrete; his experimental works revolve around investigations on the microstructural behaviour, mechanical properties and durability characteristics, structural behaviour, functional behaviour etc. He has supervised many Master of Engineering Science (MEng Sci-Research Mode) and Doctoral candidates to the successful completion of their degrees. He is the recipient of outstanding achievement awards in most of the Institutions he served. He and his research team won gold and silver medals at international and national exhibitions on concrete engineering & technology. He was the Project Director of two housing projects at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia that utilized industrial by-products. His decade long research work on geopolymer concrete enabled him and his team to construct the first cement-free house (superstructure) in Malaysia with the collaboration of Vinci Construction, a French-based construction conglomerate; this house is currently being used by bus drivers and serves as a research hub. He is the Principal Investigator of many research projects and received numerous research grants from the University of Malaya research fund, the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia, national and international grants including the prestigious Newton-Ungku Omar Coordination Fund: UK-Malaysia Research & Innovation Bridges Competition. He has a research collaboration with various universities in Malaysia, Australia, Bahrain, Brazil, China, France, Germany, United Kingdom, India, Japan, Jordan, Oman, Singapore, South Korea, and Vietnam. He has been invited by various Universities in different countries to give keynote lectures at international conferences, seminars, and research workshops. Prof. Ir. Dr U. Johnson Alengaram serves as an Associate Editor in the Journal of Sustainable Cement-Based Material, Australian Journal of Civil Engineering, and Editorial Board Member of Jordanian Journal of Civil Engineering (JJCE); he also served as Chairperson of SIRIM Committee for "Eco Labelling of Criteria for Reused By-Products Aggregates", and reviewer of multiple international journals. He has organized workshops, conferences, seminars and trained school students to win local and international awards; further, as the Director of CICT, he has pioneered the activities of the centre to contribute to society and thus many national and international researchers and students are being trained on a regular basis in the centre. He has been Organizing Secretary, Co-Chair, Chair and Advisor of International Conferences and Workshops.
show more »Muhammad Azzam Ismail, Ph.D. in Built Environment (UNSW), is a Graduate Architect and Professional Technologist who specialises in green architecture and green building certification. He designed, supervised contracts, and built buildings of various sizes, including a showcase low-cost house on the UM campus that uses the Industrialised Building System and an active ageing habitation unit that is currently in use. He is currently working on the Malaysian Green Building Council's (MGBC) Carbon Score grading system, as well as the design of the Universiti Malaya Masterplan 2050 and Universiti Malaya Smart City Masterplan. His grant-funded research focuses on the operational carbon footprint of residential properties, low-carbon cities, the incorporation of sustainability knowledge into architectural education, zero-carbon building assessment, immersive architectural design processes using virtual reality technology, and the impact of green offices on building occupant behaviour and work efficiency. His current research interests include 'Living Buildings,' which incorporate bio-facades to reduce indoor daylighting and thermal comfort levels, as well as lifecycle analysis of major food groups' supply chains. Previously, he served as the Head of the Department of Architecture and was appointed Chairman of the Malaysia Council of Heads of Architecture Schools (COHAS) from 2014 to 2016. Furthermore, as Fellow and College Master at the Tun Syed Zahiruddin Residential College (9th College) from 2011 to 2022, he oversaw and participated in a variety of student-led activities, such as the yearly college award dinner and the Global Community Service (GLOCOSE) programme to Acheh, Indonesia; Kampung Cham, Cambodia; Tay Ninh, Vietnam; Lombok, Indonesia; and Phuket, Thailand. In keeping with his interest in sustainability and low-carbon cities, he gave capacity-building lectures through UMCARES and received the UMCARES Certificate of Excellence in Sustainability in 2014.
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Jabeen, Sahira; Cheong, Cecilia Yin Mei (2024). Multimodal Narrativity in a Pakistani Tv Advertisement: a Socio-Semiotic and Narratological Analysis. Social Semiotics
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Balakrishnan, Vimala; Ramanathan, Ghayathri; Zhou, Siyi; Wong, Chee Kuan (2024). Optimized Support Vector Regression Predicting Treatment Duration Among Tuberculosis Patients in Malaysia. Multimedia Tools and Applications
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Afzal, Suhail; Mokhlis, Hazlie; Illias, Hazlee Azil; Bajwa, Abdullah Akram; Mekhilef, Saad; Mubin, Marizan; Muhammad, Munir Azam; Shareef, Hussain (2024). Modelling Spatiotemporal Impact of Flash Floods On Power Distribution System and Dynamic Service Restoration With Renewable Generators Considering Interdependent Critical Loads. Iet Generation Transmission & Distribution
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Zailan, Nur Athirah; Mohd Khairuddin, Anis Salwa; Hasikin, Khairunnisa; Junos, Mohamad Haniff; Khairuddin, Uswah (2024). An Automatic Garbage Detection Using Optimized Yolo Model. Signal Image and Video Processing
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Srinivas, M. Karthick; Alengaram, U. Johnson; Ibrahim, Shaliza; Vello, Vejeysri; Phang, Siew Moi (2024). Feasibility Study On The Use of Microalgae as An External Crack Healing Agent for Cement Mortar Rehabilitation. Journal of Sustainable Cement-Based Materials
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