by webmaster FAB | May 22, 2016 | Award, Featured Slider, News
By: Sr. Dr Sarajul Fikri Mohamed
Faculty of Built Environment student, Miss Aimi Sara binti Ismail, has been awarded a Lawrence Chin Memorial Award for Quantity Surveying Best Student from The Royal Institutions of Surveying Malaysia (RISM) in conjunction with the RISM Annual General Meeting and Dinner held on the 14th May 2016 at Hotel Istana Kuala Lumpur.
This award was in recognition of her excellence academic achievement among all QS undergraduate students in Malaysia. The recipients of RISM academic award are invited to attend an award winning presentation and were presented with a medal and certificate from the President of RISM, Dato Sr. K Sri Kandan.
by webmaster FAB | May 17, 2016 | News
The Department of Urban and Regional Planning (DURP), Faculty of Built Environment (FAB), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Johor Bahru had its monthly seminar entitled “Mainstreaming Sustainability: From Concept into Action”, on the 28th of April 2016 (Thursday), 11.00 am at Seminar Room, B03, FAB. The seminar was presented by Dr. Irina Safitri Zen, a senior lecturer at the DURP.
Dr. Irina began the seminar by revisiting very briefly the emergence of sustainability, the basic concepts of sustainability, the seven common principles of sustainability, sustainable development and Malaysia’s commitment to sustainability. She also spoke on the scope of sustainability, how the scope has changed, the indicators of sustainability and sustainability science. According to Dr. Irina, there is a need to mainstream sustainability which essentially calls for the collaboration and integration of academia, industry, government and community. She also elaborated on the increasing importance of social equity and community participation and asserts that more action oriented and bottom up efforts are very much needed in order to attain sustainability.
Dr. Irina is widely recognised as an environmental management and sustainability expert and her areas of specialisation includes environmental studies and management, sustainable development and sustainability, sustainability assessment and research methodology, solid waste management and recycling behaviour, environmental management and policy, and campus sustainability. She is currently the head of the Sustainability Research Unit at Institut Sultan Iskandar (ISI), UTM and is an Associate Research Fellow at Centre for Innovative Planning and Development (CiPD), FAB, UTM. She is also a member of a number of select and strategic working groups in Malaysia and the Asia Pacific.
The seminar attended by students and academic staff of DURP ended at 1.15 pm.
by webmaster FAB | May 14, 2016 | In The Press, News, newspaper
Raja Zarith Sofiah watching students applying the canting method for batik during the Batik Canting Workshop at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. — ABDUL RAHMAN EMBONG/The Star
JOHOR BARU: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) wants to continue promoting and popularising the hand-painted batik drawing or canting among its students to ensure the art remains alive.
Vice-chancellor Datuk Dr Wahid Omar said the batik canting workshop was organised by the Faculty of Built Environment for its architecture students.
“It is good exposure for them as hand batik painting requires a high degree of patience with each of the art work reflecting the artiste’s ideas and creativity,” he said.
Dr Wahid said the interest of young Malaysians in batik canting should be nurtured to ensure the continuity of the traditional handicraft despite modernisation.
He said hand-painted batik materials were not only popular among Malaysians of various races but also among foreign tourists visiting the country as they made good souvenirs for them.
Permaisuri Johor Raja Zarith Sofiah Sultan Idris Shah, who is also UTM pro-chancellor, was present to see the 40 batik art pieces on display.
Architecture students Ho Wen Han and Lee Siew Jing, both 21, said they decided to enrol in the workshop as they want to learn something new.
“We found that it is quite interesting but hard when we first started as you have to have a steady hand when outlining the design of the batik using wax,’’ said Ho.
She said the most difficult part was mixing the colours and painting the white cloth as the colours might not turn out well when applied on the cloth.
Ho said the right temperature was also important as the melted wax should not be too hot or too cold as otherwise the end result of the batik will not be good.
Source: TheStar
