by webmaster FAB | May 17, 2015 | Featured Slider, News
A paper from UTM Faculty of Built Environment has been awarded as a Runner Up winner at 6th Asian Conference on Environment-Behaviour Studies- “Human Oriented Design: Urban and Rural Development”. The conference was held at Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Tehran, Iran, from 20 to 22 February 2015.
Best Paper Award: 2nd Runners Up
Title: Urban Social Sustainability Contributing Factors in Kuala Lumpur Streets
Authors: Amir Ghahramanpouri ; Ahmad Saifuddin Abdullah ; Sepideh Sedaghatnia ; Hasanuddin Lamit
The authors of this paper also have been awarded to participate in 6th AicE-Bs conference to be held in Barcelona, Spain, in September 2015.
by webmaster FAB | May 6, 2015 | Featured Slider, News
Assalamualaikum dan salam sejahtera
Tahniah kepada semua warga Fakulti Alam Bina! UTM tersenarai dalam kelompok 100 tempat teratas bagi subjek Seni Bina/ Alam Bina dan Kejuruteraan Kimia di dalam QS World University Rankings by Subject yang diumumkan secara rasminya pada 29 April 2015. Pencapaian yang membanggakan ini tidak mungkin dapat diperolehi tanpa sumbangan dari semua warga fakulti. Adalah diharapkan agar pencapaian ini menjadi pemangkin untuk kita memperolehi kecemerlangan yang lebih tinggi.
Salam Takzim
Assalamualaikum and greetings,
Congratulations to everyone at the Faculty of Built Environment! The QS World University Ranking by Subject released officially on the 29 April 2015 shows UTM listed in the top 100 universities in worldwide rankings for Architecture/Built Environment and Chemical Engineering. This commendable achievement would not have been possible without the contribution of each and everyone at the faculty, and it is hoped this will be the impetus for us to reach greater heights.
Thank you.
Roslan Amirudin, PhD
Dean/Assoc. Prof.
Faculty of Built Environment
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
UTM Johor Bahru
Malaysia.
by webmaster FAB | Apr 30, 2015 | Award, Featured Slider, News
The 4th Planning A Clean and Green Township Competition was held in Singapore on the 11th and 12th April 2015. It was organised by Activistar Advocacy, a sister company of Activistar Pte Ltd that promotes and incorporates eco-friendly principles in the planning of sustainable townships. The competition saw participation of eighty teams (80) from four (4) countries namely, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines. Thirty four teams (34) were short listed for the competition.
Two teams from the Department of Urban and Regional Planning (JPBW), Faculty of Built Environment (FAB), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) were among the teams short listed. The aim of the competition was to increase awareness among the young generation of the current and future challenges faced by developing countries due to the pressures of rapid urbanisation and hence, the dire need for sustainability. The two (2) teams from JPBW, FAB, UTM are Paradigm Planning Consultant Group and Mahal Group. The team members are Akrammussalam bin Selamat, Balqis Ayu Nabila, Ellida binti Samsudin, Fatin Atiqah binti Mohd Zaile, Mohamad Firdaus bin Maarof, and Khaireen Edlin binti Roslen representing Paradigm Planning Consultant Group and Tay Suet Yi, Mariyani binti Rozali, Khoirun Nisha binti Umar, Yong Mei Yee, and Nor Sarah Zawani binti Md Zaim representing Mahal Group. Dr. Gobi Krishna A/L Sinniah accompanied and was also advisor to the teams.
The competition was conducted in three (3) stages, stage 1 was the submission of a proposal report, followed by stage 2, a verbal or multimedia presentation, and stage 3, the development and submission of a design model. The first day competition was held at Ngee Ann Polytechnic whilst the grand finale on the second day was at SCAPE, Orchard Rd, Singapore. Officials from the Embassies of Denmark, Belgium, the Ukraine, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National University of Singapore (NUS) attended the two (2) day competition. The team from UTM, Paradigm Planning Consultant Group won the “Most Innovative Model Township Award”. The design models by the two (2) teams from UTM were selected to be displayed at Chao Chu Kang National Library, Singapore.
by webmaster FAB | Apr 30, 2015 | Featured Slider, News
Out of the Studio, into the Real World! Second ‘First Year Experience’ (FYE-II) for 27 First Year UTM Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning students in Melaka and the Klang Valley
In order to produce high quality town planners who are able to practically and holistically contribute to more sustainable development of the country, apart from having a forward-looking, innovative, world class Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning (B.URP) curriculum, it is highly essential that the B.URP program be designed “for the real world”; and “planning for the real world” begins in the early year of the planning education.
With this in view, the Department of Urban and Regional Planning (JPBW), Faculty of Built Environment (FAB), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru (UTMJB) organised the second First Year Experience (FYE-II) program that was integrated with the field trip of the First Year, Second Semester’s Site Planning and Layout Studio (SBEP 1125) on 16-18 April 2015.
The studio field trip cum FYE-II program took 27 First Year B.URP students out of the Studio and into the real world, to:
- The World Heritage City of Melaka for onsite perception and appreciation of Malaysia’s glorious urbanisation history that formally dates back to at least 600 years;
- The Cosmopolitan Capital City of Kuala Lumpur that included a technical briefing and professional motivation by locally grown, highly successful international urban design and planning practice, APUDG Sdn Bhd;
- The Visionary Federal Administrative City of Putrajaya for onsite perception and appreciation of bold, visionary and innovative master planning by local planning talents; and
- Award-winning master planning residential project, Bandar Botanic, Klang for onsite technical briefing on good site engineering, neighbourhood planning and layout design ideas and principles.
The students, led by Mr. Chau Loon Wai and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nooraini Yusoff, returned to UTMJB high-spirited and motivated with renewed aspiration, confidence and commitment in planning and building better Malaysian cities/towns.
by webmaster FAB | Apr 30, 2015 | Featured Slider, News
In line with Universiti Teknologi Malaysia’s (UTM) efforts in internationalising and striving for research and teaching excellence at the global scale, the Department of Urban and Regional Planning (JPBW), Faculty of Built Environment (FAB), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru (UTMJB), jointly with Mahasarakham University’s (MSU) Faculty of Architecture, Urban Design and Creative Arts (FAUDCA), successfully organised the 10th MSU-UTM Joint Workshop on Urban Design and Conservation (10th MSU-UTM JWUDC) on 05-13 April 2015.
The inaugural MSU-UTM JWUDC was organised in 2006 and the Joint Workshop has since become a flagship academic activity under the MSU-UTM Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). UTM and MSU play alternate host to the joint workshop run annually in the respective host country; with the 9th Joint Workshop being held in Thailand in 2014 and this 10th Workshop in Malaysia.
A key component of the 10th MSU-UTM JWUDC was a seven-day field trip, with technical briefings and heritage/town trails, to George Town, Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya, Melaka and Nusajaya. Seventeen MSU students from diverse backgrounds of architecture, urban design, interior design and fine arts, and 12 UTM students from the 1st, 2nd and 4th year Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning (SBEP) program participated in the workshop, led by a JPBW lecturer, 2 MSU lecturers and 2 FAB post-graduate students.
To enhance intellectual and cultural exchange between the Thai and Malaysian students, the Joint Workshop incorporated an urban design project in Kuala Lumpur’s Pasar Seni-Medan Pasar area, where the conducted detailed observations and urban design analysis and proposed design solutions to improve the area into a sustainable, liveable and vibrant urban place depicting the area’s historical and functional significance. The Joint Workshop concluded with a successful Final Presentation on Urban Design of the Pasar Seni-Medan Pasar Area in UTMJB on 13 April 2015.
Building on the highly successful joint workshops in the past 10 years, a ‘MSU-UTM JWUDC Strategic Positioning Meeting for 2016 and Beyond’ was held on 12 April 2015 to explore future strategic and higher-impact academic collaborations that would benefit both faculties of UTM and MSU. A high-level 3-member delegation from MSU’s FAUDCA led by the Dean, Assistant Professor Dr. Tarawut Boonlua made a courtesy call to FAB and was received by the FAB Dean, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Roslan Amirudin and seven other senior faculty members.
The meeting identified a series of strategic programs for priority implementation involving students and academic staff of the two faculties, including:
- Student exchange programs through UTM’s Global Outreach Program (GOP);
- Participation of MSU academic staff in the 13th Asian Planning Schools Association Congress (APSA 2015) in UTM in August 2015;
- Joint publication activities with MSU academic staff to be appointed to the international editorial board of UTM’s International Journal of Built Environment and Sustainability (IJBES);
- Sabbatical arrangements for academic staff exchange (short-term teaching and research attachments);
- Joint study/research on measured drawings of Malaysian and Thai vernacular architecture to be led by FAB’s Centre of Excellence for the Study of Built Environment in the Malay World (KALAM); and
- Organisation of the International Conference on Design and Sustainable Development 2016 (ICDSD 2016) by MSU, UTM and the National University of Laos in July 2016.
UTM and MSU students presenting design outcomes of the intensive urban design workshop in KL’s Pasar Seni-Medan Pasar Area
Historic moment…. Faculty members from UTM’s FAB and MSU’s Faculty of Architecture, Urban Design and Creative Arts pose for the record. Standing sixth from left is FAB Dean, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Roslan Amirudin, fifth from left is MSU’s FAUDCA Dean, Assistant Prof. Dr. Tarawut Boonlua.
Group photo session at Dataran Putra after field observation and technical briefing in Putrajaya
by webmaster FAB | Apr 27, 2015 | Featured Slider, News
The Department of Urban and Regional Planning (JPBW), Faculty of Built Environment (FAB), UTM has once again successfully organised its 2nd monthly seminar/talk for 2015. The talk by Adjunct Prof. Datuk Ismail Ibrahim, Chief Executive, Iskandar Regional Development Authority (IRDA) was held on 16th April 2015 (Thursday) at the Convention Hall B12, FAB. In the two hour talk, entitled ‘Comprehensive Development Plan ii (2014 – 2025) Iskandar Malaysia’, Datuk Ismail accentuate the vision and development pathway for Iskandar Malaysia as prescribed in the comprehensive development plan strategy. The strategy is to develop Iskandar Malaysia into a strong and sustainable metropolis of international standing. He also emphasised that the vision envisaged in the first Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP) Iskandar Malaysia 2006 will be advanced and promoted further in the Comprehensive Development Plan ii (CDPii).
The CDPii will realise Phase 3 of the CDP, which is to ensure that Iskandar Malaysia continue to be sustainable and resilient in the future. The key element of the strategy is to translate the Circle of Sustainability that shall provide the strategic framework to drive CDPii for another 10 years.
Datuk Ismail Ibrahim was appointed Adjunct Professor for JPBW, FAB in 2013. Since his appointment he has continually shared his vast experiences and extensive knowledge on Iskandar Malaysia Comprehensive Plan with undergraduate and postgraduate students, lecturers and researchers of FAB. The talk ended at 1.30pm with a Q and A session.
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