3-day Workshop on Revit for BIM Authoring – Essential Training

July 27, 2017 by

I’m thankful that the 3-day Workshop on Revit for BIM Authoring – Essential Training had been successfully conducted on 24th – 26th July 2017 at CAD Center, Faculty of Built Environment, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM).

The participants consisted of postgraduate students from UTM and Wawasan Open University as well as practicing architects from RDC Arkitek and y.architects.

The workshop covered fundamental understanding of BIM concept, process and applications.  Besides that, there were 5 modules on Revit hands-on exercises where the participants learnt to use Autodesk Revit for BIM authoring.

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Visit to Forest City

July 23, 2017 by

I’m grateful for a fruitful technical visit to the Forest City project in Iskandar, Johor.  Together with a few engineers, we had the opportunity to tour around a few buildings and construction sites including a case study project of precast construction using building information modelling (BIM).

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ICRIIS 2017 Best Paper Award

July 20, 2017 by

Thank God that my paper titled “BIM-based Sustainable Building Design Process and Decision-making” has received the Best Paper Award in the 5th International Conference on Research and Innovation on Information Systems (ICRIIS 2017), under the conference track of “Innovations in Construction Industry through Building Information Modelling”.  The conference was held on 16-17 July 2017, at ADYA Hotel, Langkawi, Malaysia with more than 100 papers presented.  Furthermore, I was one of the conference track co-chairs and had chaired the parallel session 6.

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Visit by MRTC to FAB

May 19, 2017 by

Visit by MRTC to FAB on 18 May 2017 for collaboration possibility with FAB BIM Team. MRT lines and infrastructures are important for making Klang Valley a sustainable city.

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BIM 2017 – Invited Presenter and ISAC

May 13, 2017 by

I was invited to present a paper titled “BIM and Genetic Algorithm optimisation for sustainable building envelope design” in the 2nd International Conference on Building Information Modelling (BIM) in Design, Construction and Operations, on 10 – 12 May 2017 in Alicante, Spain.  The paper was selected to be published in International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning. (URL: https://www.witpress.com/elibrary/sdp-volumes/13/1/1799)

I was also an International Scientific Advisory Committee (ISAC) member and the chair of one of the presentation session in the conference.

Besides, the conference delegates had opportunity to visit Orihuela which is a very old town, founded at the time of the Visigoths and expanded during the Arab domination period.

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BIM 2017 – Alicante, Spain

February 8, 2016 by

I have been invited as one of the international scientific advisory committee members for the 2nd International Conference on Building Information Modelling (BIM) in Design, Construction and Operations, which will be held on 10-12 May 2017 in Alicante, Spain.

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