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Work Process in Establishment Work Development Plan for Interior Design Project Delivery; The Guttman Approach
Authors: Mustapha Arniatul Aiza , Ahmad Noorhani Nur Maizura 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
Work process and flow is crucial in interior design project delivery process. Within the balance of time, cost and quality, interior design process involves the execution of the designing, beginning to end, as well as the subsequent phases of construction and completion. Popularity of interior design nowadays amongst people around the world, demand interior design businesses aggressively in action. And this helps the interior designer self-interpret the ways, processes and flows without having uniform way of work in delivering project. This study intends to affirm the process, flow and order of interior design project delivery process in establishing interior design work development plan (IDWDP). This study is merely narrowed to the earlier phase of interior design project delivery process, where it will be discussing until the design stage (pre-contract phase). The establishment of IDWDP, it may give positive exercise for interior design professional in practicing the interior project by contributing to the sustainable economic growth, productive employment as well as decent work stated in SDG 8.
Green Procurement Implementation in Construction industry: Analysis of Developer’s Challenges
Authors: Khaderi Shamsida Saidan , Yub Yusnita , Bakri Anis Sazira , Abd Shukor Ani Saifuza 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
Sustainable construction is significant to implement, especially in Malaysia since many environmental issues have become worst lately. All parties or stakeholder need to take a high responsive action to enforce sustainable construction due to passive movement is undertaken by certain parties, primarily developer. Developers is the most sought out play a critical role in the development of sustainable construction. Green procurement is one of the initiatives introduced to improve sustainability. However, green procurement is still very new and has not widely adopted in the Malaysian construction industry — while the challenges that hinder developers from taking green procurement merit detailed investigation. Therefore, this study aims to reveal the potential problems faced by developers that resist green procurement implementation in the construction industry. Its objective is to identify the current practices of green procurement implementation in the construction industry and determine the developer’s challenges in the performance of green procurement in the construction industry. Data collection was done through a mixed method of research, which is quantitative by questionnaire survey and the qualitative approach by semi-structured interviews. Data analysis was done after collected data information from the interview and questionnaire session. The findings from this research will provide a valuable reference for assisting relevant developers in mitigating the green procurement challenges in real estate development throughout encouraging and pointing to increased awareness, practice, and implementation of green procurement by practitioners in Malaysia. It envisaged that the study would provide the basis for future research into green procurement practices for construction projects in Malaysia and beyond.
Importance of Sustainable Construction: Construction Players’ Perspective
Authors: Isnaini Janipha Nurul Afida , Ahmad Shakir Nadiah Hanani , Azrin Baharuddin Har Einur 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
Sustainability has become a universal issue that has been increased over the years. Sustainable practices in the construction industry involved in meeting the client’s needs without compromising the factors of environmental, economic and social. This paper aims to investigate the importance of sustainable practices in the Malaysian construction industry. The objectives were to identify the sustainable components and to determine the level of importance of sustainable construction in the Malaysian construction industry. An extensive literature review was done to obtain the information on the sustainable components and a questionnaire survey was done to determine the importance of sustainable construction. The questionnaires were distributed through e-mails to various construction practitioners in the area of Kuala Lumpur. A total of 74 respondents’ feedbacks managed to be gathered and data collected were analyzed using SPSS employing descriptive analysis to determine mean and rank of components and the perception of importance of sustainable construction. The study provides analysis on the perspective of importance from three main components; economic, social and environmental aspects of sustainable construction. The results showed that three most important characteristics perceived were occupational health and safety, risk management and quality management. Therefore, it is essential to provide a comprehensive awareness and technical knowledge on the sustainable construction that would give the construction players a competitive advantage in the long-run and may even increase their profitability.
Installation IBS Components in Malaysian Housing Projects; The Difficulties and Solutions
Authors: Abd Jalil Ahmad Bin , Shaari Shazwan Mohamed 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
Most contractors choose to install IBS components without having supervision as this require additional fees, and due to their lack of expertise the installations likely facing defects problems. To adopt IBS require detail precision and proper process, if not, the IBS will not bring faster and cost effective but instead expose to spending more time to plan or rectify the defective works. Therefore, identifying the difficulties in conducting installation of IBS components is paramount, especially on the need for supervision work. Without proper supervision during installation, the IBS in housing projects will not only expose to delay, quality disputes, and design clashes but will also cause misconceptions and warranty issues. In this study, a questionnaire survey was designed to determine the challenges on installing IBS components with supervision and propose suggestions to solve them. After gaining the questionnaire result, the data were validated through semi-structured interviews, which aim to analyze the various views from all relevant stakeholders. The results reveals that the main challenges in installing IBS components are on the difficulty to find skillful supervision and installation team, cost for supervision fees, and the handling of IBS components. As for solution, respondents emphasized that the IBS installation can be improved if supervision during installation is regulated and make it as mandatory, provide clearer method statement and constant monitoring. While most previous research only focus to IBS process, supply chain, cost reduction, best practices etc., this research’s major contribution to the body of knowledge is on highlighting the crucial issues and the needs for supervision during IBS components installation and suggest solutions to overcome the challenges.
BIM Capabilities towards Better Safety Climate in the Malaysian Construction Industry
Authors: Adillah Ismail Noor Akmal , Basirah Baharun Bibi Nur , Adnan Hamimah , Maisham Mysarah , Asyikin Mahat Noor Aisyah 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
The Malaysian construction industry are dealing with numerous cases of permanent injuries and death of workers in construction sites. This has caused lack of productivity and also losses of human resources. The urging working condition aiming for on time completion has led to unsafe working behaviour due to the top management pressure. This is where Building Information Modelling (BIM) came into view to increase the safety on site environment and through design phase by using technology to overcome human inconsistency behaviour. However, the lack of BIM implementation in Malaysia also causes even lesser implementation of BIM in safety of construction. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the BIM capabilities towards better safety climate in the Malaysian construction industry. A qualitative approach was used through semi-structured interviews and discussion with selected representatives from both private and government sectors. All the interviewed data were then analysed using content analysis technique which correlated the findings with the literature review to support the findings. Based on the findings, it can be concluded that (1) Visualisation for Safety, and (2) Simulation for Safety are the most potential BIM capabilities to be implemented in the construction industry for improving safety climate by using BIM technology. Significantly, the study provides insights towards outlining potential BIM capabilities on policy or Safety Rules and Procedure implementation by the government authority or organizations’ top management.
Communication Challenges in Private Finance Initiative Projects at Facilities Management Stage
Authors: Kipli Kumalasari , Sidek Norazizah , Mustapa Fara Diva , Hidayah Syed Jamaluddin Shariffah Zatil , Zaini Favilla 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
Facilities management is one of the scopes of work under the Private Finance Initiative Projects. The success of the facilities management work depends on various factors. Communication is among the factor. This paper will highlight what are the challenges faced during the communication between the client and facilities management managers in UiTM projects and also ways to overcome the challenges. The research is carried out by using the qualitative method. The interviews were done with the engineers and facilities managers. From the interviews, the challenges are the breakdown of communication, human error, lack of understanding, time-consuming, and misunderstanding. deal with lack of understanding, it is best to deal with it through meeting or discussion, inspecting the real problem, and issuing a letter or reminder. To sum up, these strategies are being used because to clarify the root cause of the lack of understandings and to get rid of disputes that happen between both parties. To ensure smooth communication when conveying information during the operational and maintenance, the following item suggested being done by the respondents; verification from the end-user, conducting a technical meeting, following the procedure in executing works, and having a good relationship between both parties. To improve communication, the suggestion is the use of the mobile application, integrated system, roles of the concessionaire in understanding the Concession Agreement, minimize human error and improvement of CFMS as well as preferably direct communication using instant messages.
Green Sukuk, Environmental Issues and Strategy
Authors: Rozman Ahmad Tajjudin , Azmi Nurul Afiqah 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
The leaders and policymakers realize that our home planet has been endangered by our hands. The industrialization era had a severe impact on climate change; therefore, the infrastructure project should be friendly with the environment. The green Sukuk concept is ideal to help the Sukuk issuances tackle environmental issues as well as reduce Green House Gases (GHG) carbon emission. However, there are so many environmental issues that revolve in Malaysia besides the environmental project should be beneficial the most to the country (environmentally) and the people. This paper attempt to identify the current and unsolved environmental issues in Malaysia; the role of Green Sukuk (financially) to assist the environmentally friendly project; and strategy or initiatives that can be taken by the government to push the green Sukuk issuance to help the government to cope with the environmental issues as well as reduce climate change.
Applications of a phase-field fracture model to materials with inclusions
Authors: Vodička R 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
Fracture in materials with inclusions is considered in the computational model of this contribution which allows prediction of crack propagation. The inclusions cause that cracks may appear inside the materials or along matrix-inclusion interfaces. The presented model can treat them both using two internal variables in a fashion of damage mechanics so that fracture is a consequence of the damage. The first variable is defined at the interface represented by a thin degradable adhesive layer so that an appropriate stress-strain relationship can be obtained as in cohesive zone models. The second variable is defined in the structural domains as a phase-field fracture variable which causes elastic properties degradation in a narrow material strip that forms a smeared crack. Both these damaging schemes are expressed in a unique quasi-static energy evolution process. The numerical solution approach is thus rendered from a variational form with a staggered time stepping procedure related to a separation of deformation variables from the damage ones and using non-linear programming algorithms implemented together within an own MATLAB finite element code. The numerical simulations with the model include simplified structural and material elements.
The effect of manufacturing imperfections in the slip joints
Authors: Mojto M , Brodnianský J , Brodnianský J 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
The issue of imperfections is mostly related to additional internal forces. However, our understanding of imperfections is associated with the change of structural behaviour. In our case, the most likely indicated effects of imperfections are the reduction of the contact area, and the unreachability of the required overlap length. The behaviour of these slip joints depends on sufficient contact between sliding parts. The contact area is affected by the imperfections of the manufactured steel tubes. This contribution presents the manufacturing tolerances and subsequently, it describes the incorporation of them into the design of the slip joint. Furthermore, the article presents a comparison between the ideal numerical model and model with imperfections involved. Moreover, this numerical model is verified by experimental measurements. The results indicate that imperfections have a significant impact on the slip joints. In our comparison, the effect of imperfections is about 120%.
Elastic Exploring of Human Lung Parenchyma
Authors: Bošanská B , Minárová M , Tvrdá K 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
The paper describes a theoretical study and exploration of authors in the field of biomechanics. The lung parenchyma is focused, and its elastic behaviour under the physiological mechanical load, pressure change during breathing. Anatomical view to the human respiratory system generally is introduced first together with a more detailed description of the alveolus. Then the appropriate theory is elaborated, aimed on the mathematical model establishing, the finite element method is chosen as the resolving tool. The computational implementation is realized in multi physical software based on the finite element method.
On the load-carrying capacity produced by different load models for road bridges
Authors: Gocal J , Odrobinak J , Vican J 
Published: October 2022

AbstractThe evaluation of existing bridges is an important process and source of information within the bridge management system. Except for the load-carrying capacity represents the basic evaluation parameter, it moreover expresses a relevant and decisive parameter for the transition of actual road traffic. The paper presents the continuation of an already published analytical study aimed at comparing the effects of traffic load produced by different load models on road bridges. There are presented calculated load-carrying capacities for model cases of bridges with an upper deck with eight alternative spans and six different cross-sectional arrangements. On each of them, multiple load models simulating the effects of traffic were considered, while a certain predefined part of the considered load represented the required weight of the vehicle defining the load-carrying capacity of the respective bridge. The discussion is mainly focused on the pitfalls and possibilities of correctly defining the dependence of the weight of the vehicle representing the load-carrying capacity from the traffic load consideration schemes themselves, which are mostly defined by design codes.
Sewage and coronavirus; Maribor case study
Authors: Nekrep Perc M , Kramer Stajnko J 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
Wastewater can be an important indicator of surface water contamination by pathogens, of which SARS-CoV-2 is one, so monitoring of wastewater at treatment plants is important. The virus has been shown to be present in the faeces of infected people, which can be detected much earlier than with medical tests. This will allow prediction of trends in coronavirus outbreaks in advance and may complement current measures to determine prevalence. In Slovenia, pilot monitoring was established in seven WWTPs in October 2020. This paper presents the results and analysis of the Maribor WWTP, where one to three 100 ml samples are collected weekly to detect the presence of SARS-CoV-2. A correlation can be observed between the evolution of the virus in the wastewater and the number of active cases detected by the National Institute of Public Health in the region covered by the WWTP. The presence of the virus in the wastewater is detected about two weeks before the increase in active cases. Some shortcomings and further issues of the wastewater monitoring are analysed.
Water vapor transmission parameters of the Kežmarok sandstone
Authors: Jaroš P , Vertaľ M 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
Dynamic complex heat and water transport in building constructions can be calculated using modern simulation software such as Wufi, Delphin, Math, Comsol Multiphysics and other. This software is suitable for the evaluation of the thermal and hygric processes in constructions of historical buildings. Because it includes many important factors such as dynamic boundary conditions, solar radiation, driven rain, ground water, diffusion and others. The heat and water transport parameters of historical materials are needed for simulation of coupled heat and water transport in building materials. The Kežmarok sandstone was chosen for analysis. One of the important material parameters for evaluation of complex heat and water transport in building constructions are water vapor transmission parameters. Vapor transport can be described as water vapor diffusion resistance factor, water vapor diffusion coefficient and diffusion equivalent air layer thickness. The dry cup and wet cup method were used to determine the water vapor transmission parameters of Kežmarok sandstone.
Production of polymer-modified-asphalt mixture as an alternative method to the conventional polymer-modified-bitumen mixtures
Authors: Kovács R , Polakovič Ľ , Czímerová A , Mandula J 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
The transfer of new materials and technologies that are necessary for the development of new practices will lead to the development of innovation. These options are considered as (1) innovation, which means a significant improvement in the currently required parameters, mostly in parallel with the price increase, (2) innovation will meet the current parameters, but at a lower product / technology price, (3) innovation will achieve compliance with the applicable parameters, but at a higher price of the product / technology. In most cases, this is the second option, i. e. help the customer to enter the market at a lower price while maintaining the required product quality. This case also concerns the application of mixtures of the polymer-modified asphalt mixture type. The main goal of this work was the production and real laying on the verification section of the polymer-modified asphalt mixture. Based on the results obtained from this work, we can conclude that the values of the observed properties prescribed for a given class of asphalt mixtures in the catalogue sheets of asphalt mixtures were achieved without serious problems. Due to the trouble-free production of such mixtures in the plant, spreading and compaction of mixtures, we can express a clear conclusion that such mixtures are an ideal alternative to conventionally used polymer-modified-bitumen mixtures.
The influence of inclusive deformation mapping on the kinematic equations of nonlinear elasticity
Authors: Flajs R 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
A model of continuum is often used in statics and dynamics modeling with material and spatial description. In this paper, we describe body deformation using an innovative approach employing embedding. The mapping ϕ maps a domain from the space Rn
to the image of space Rm
, where the dimensions of the spaces m and n are necessarily different, usually n < m. Due to the different dimensions m and n, the determinant of the mapping is not defined, nor is the mapping reversible. This complicates the calculation of the fundamental kinematic quantities, the determinant J of the displacement gradient F, the transposed inverse of F, which occur in the Nanson’s equation for deformed surface. In this paper, we derive terms for these quantities. The usage of the Moore-Penrose generalized inverse is essential here. This approach is a generalization of the established approach and thus opens up new possibilities in describing deformation. Displacements often appear as one of the basic unknowns, especially when using the finite element method. In the teaching of nonlinear mechanics, we found that the displacements are not adequately defined. In the paper, we therefore attempt to rectify this shortcoming.
Indoor environmental quality in green certified office buildings
Authors: Harčárová K , Vilčeková S 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
The presented paper deals with the assessment of selected indoor environmental quality (IEQ) factors, specifically the parameters of thermal comfort and indoor air quality (IAQ), in two buildings of a modern office complex. Both buildings are LEED certified. The monitoring of selected IEQ risk factors took place in selected office spaces (cell and open-space offices) representative of all occupied areas under operating conditions. The results of real measurements of IAQ parameters indicate that the monitored office spaces in both buildings did not exceed the required limits set by the LEED certification system. The measured parameters of thermal comfort were within the permissible legislative limits and the results of Predicted Mean Vote (PMV) and Predicted Percentage of Dissatisfied (PPD) indices show that a suitable level of thermal comfort can be expected in the given buildings during their occupancy. Based on the results of real measurements, it can be stated that both office buildings actually meet the LEED criteria for IAQ and guarantee a healthy and comfortable working environment for their occupants.
Indoor air quality assessment in the apartment – case study
Authors: Kapalo P , Kováč M , Nagy R , Baka Z 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
The application of demand-controlled ventilation is one of the ways, how to reduce energy consumption in residential buildings. The main producer of pollutants in these types of buildings is human being and its activities. The most common measurable air parameters that can be characterized the level of air degradation in rooms are the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2), air temperature and relative humidity. The aim of our research was to monitor and evaluate these air parameters in real conditions of apartment usage. As part of the research, the experimental measurements were carried out in a selected apartment, where the concentration of carbon dioxide CO2, air temperature and relative humidity were monitored in individual rooms. During evaluating the monitored air parameters, their maximum and minimum values were evaluated. The achieved research results can be applied in computer simulation the operation of a ventilation system in the apartment in order to increase the energy efficiency of the HVAC system while maintaining the required indoor air quality that is necessary for healthy living.