Congratulations to FABU’s Geomatic Engineering Students, for winning the GIS Certification Institute Map Contest 2021.
On 30th March 2021, the second collaborative webinar series was successfully co-organized by Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Tamkang University (TkU), and University of Reading Malaysia (UoRM) right after the first webinar organized on 9th of Mac 2021. The 2nd collaborative webinar entitled “Designing for Future Cities” was delivered by Hajjah Maimunah Jaffar, the Director of Lead, Technology & Innovation of Iskandar Regional Development Authority. The collaborative webinar series rotated among three collaboration Universities, whereby the first series initiated by Tamkang University (TkU), followed by University of Reading Malaysia (UoRM) and ended by Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) from early of March to end of April 2021. The webinar was participated by more than 70 participants across the universities, and professionals in Malaysia and Taiwan.
The purpose of the collaborative webinar series was to promote the knowledge exchange and transfer between three universities to staff and students. The partnership programme was launched in the middle of 2020 to enable three universities to collaborate together on an international collaboration fund research projects and academic activities. The collaboration was led by Prof Ts Dr Mohd Hamdan Ahmad from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), the Deputy Vice Chancellor of Development UTM and the members of the team consisted of Dr Leng Pau Chung and Dr Gabriel Ling Hoh Teck from Faculty of Built Environment and Surveying as well as Dr Eeydzah Aminudin (School of Civil Engineering) and Dr Chan Weng Howe (School of Computing) from Faculty of Engineering UTM. On the other hand, the University of Reading Malaysia team was led by Dr Bruno Lot Tanko, MRICS, Head of Built Environment, and Dr Celine Lee Cen Ying, lecturer at the University of Reading Malaysia’s Henley Business School, while the Tamkang University team was led by Associate Prof Dr Fan-Su Ling.
The above-mentioned webinar started at 11am and ended at 12pm, followed by the question and answer session. The session moderator was Dr Celine Lee, senior lecturer from University of Reading Malaysia. This session was open not only to the local students from UTM, UoRM and TkU Taiwan but also to the Professionals in building industry, local authorities and partnership universities’ staff and students among three universities.
The shared topic was mainly discussing about the background and planning of smart city, smart building for integrated design, construction and maintenance as well as data analytics for informed decision making in Iskandar Region Malaysia. Via the webinar, the participants had the opportunity to understand the updates, current practice and way forward of IRDA in development of Iskandar region. The webinar wrapped up with the Q&A session followed by the conclusion by the speaker. The webinar ended at 1230pm in the afternoon.
The collaborative webinar series no.1 delivered by Hajjah Maimunah Jaffar, Director of Lead, Technology & Innovation of Iskandar Regional Development Authority and moderated by Sr Dr Cen-Ying (Celine) Lee, Programme Lead of BSc Quantity Surveying from Reading University of Iskandar Malaysia
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The Malaysia Green Building Council (Southern Chapter) had successfully held the 3rd Annual General Meeting on 19 Mac 2021 since its establishment in 2019. The meeting was the second e-AGM conducted due to the execution of Controlled Movement Control Order (CMCO) in Johor State. The e-AGM started at 9:00pm via Google Meet and attended by all active members from various backgrounds including Professionals, Academicians, Corporate and Industry Players and students.
Prof Ts Dr. Mohd Hamdan Ahmad, the present Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Development) of UTM from Faculty of Built Environment and Surveying (FABU) was re-elected as Chairperson for Malaysia GBC Southern Chapter 2021/2022. Other than Prof Ts Dr. Mohd Hamdan Ahmad, 2 academic members from FABU UTM were re-elected as board members 2021/2022: Mdm Tantish Kamaruddin (Quantity Surveying Programme) as Honorary Secretary, and Ts Dr. Leng Pau Chung from Architecture Programme as one of the Committee Members.
Prof Ts Dr. Mohd Hamdan Ahmad conveyed his sincere gratitude and appreciation to the previous batch of committee members for their hard work and dedication. He also hoped that the new committee will continue to serve the community to increase green awareness, especially among the professionals, academicians, industry players as well as southern region community. The e-AGM was adjourned at 1030pm.
Board Members of MalaysiaGBC Southern Chapter 2021/2022
Chairman: Prof Ts. Dr. Mohd Hamdan Bin Ahmad
Vice Chairman: Mdm Maimunah Jaffar
Honorary Secretary: Mdm Tantish Kamaruddin
Honorary Treasurer: Mdm Alexis Chia Hui Ching
Committee members:
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Ts Dr. Leng Pau Chung
Prof Ts Dr. Mohd Hamdan Ahmad
By AP Dr. Alice Sabrina Ismail (Director Architecture program)
The International Open Design Colloquium is a unique online forum where academician and students in architecture and related design disciplines gather in an intimate setting to exchange ideas and experiences with peers from different backgrounds and cultures. This event which was conducted on the 22nd March 2021 was attended by almost 150 participants from the UK, Malaysia and India Architecture Schools. The Director of Architecture Program officiated it; AP Dr. Alice Sabrina Ismail, and the welcoming speech was delivered by the Head of Department of Leicester Architecture School – Ms Kate Cheyne. Four academicians represented DMU Leicester Architecture School – Ms Kate Cheyne (HOD DMU), AP Dr. Ben Cowd, Dr. Tim Barwell and Dr. Yuri Abdul Hadi as design crit panels with eight Masters of Architecture students – Ben Harrel, Madonna George, Can Ozerdam, Aminah Altuwaini, Hannah Bird, Jan Moore, Will Dudley and Lilie Bumford. Each architecture student from DMU Leicester Architecture School presented his/her architecture design projects in various UK sites covering heritage, culture, technology and the built environment. Four academicians also represented the UTM Architecture school – Dr. Aiman Mohd Rashid, AP Dr. Lim Yaik Wah, Mr Azari Mat Yasir and Dr. Leng Pau Chung alongside eight UTM Architecture students – Lee Siew Jing, Chuah Kok Sheng, Thing Kai Ren, Ahnaf Samsury, Akmal Hakim Jatmi and Beh Ming Yi. This four-hour design critiques session was a fruitful session, where the students and lecturers gathered together to comment on many aspects of design work in progress. It was an opportunity to enrich solutions between the divergent/generative beginning and the convergent/decisive end of a design cycle among students design thinking, process and outcome from both institutions. This event was beneficial because students and lecturers can gather valuable feedback from various aspects and dimensions. This kind of activity created an intellectual discourse that increases collaboration and peers learning among students and academicians that is valuable in building linkages and strengthening the relationship between international architecture schools from two continents. Many participants gave much positive feedback, and the UTM Architecture program will organise more international design crits events in the future.
Prepared by: AP Dr. Alice Sabrina Ismail (Director Program of Architecture)
As part of the initial effort on the International collaboration between Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) Architecture Programme and School of Architecture and Interior Design (SAID), SRM Institute of Science and Technology (SRMIST) in Chennai, India, SAID had organised the first Master of Architecture (March.) Discussion on Architectural Dissertation event on 17 February 2021.
This was a subsequent event to the first collaborative initiative, the International Open Design Crit UTM-SRMIST, in connecting both the faculty members as well as promoting ideas and design produced by students that was conducted on 4 February 2021.
This event was a review session where the March. students from SAID had presented their thesis works for constructive feedback and comments. Hosted by Prof. Aravind and Prof. D. Sukheshini from SAID through the Zoom online platform, five students had presented their current design works ranging from the behavioural perception study using Space Syntax analysis, urban design regulations, thermal performance of buildings, to the rejuvenation concept in adopting sustainable waterfront design strategy. Dr. Roshida Abdul Majid and Dr. Nor Izura Tukiman from UTM Architecture Programme were the invited guest panels to review the students’ works.
The presentation and feedback session were fruitful as it had instigated critical ideas and discussions among the students, reviewers as well as the online audiences. Students benefited from the session and gained alternative insights from reviewers with diverse perspectives and from different continents.
While the COVID-19 pandemic had restricted the physical movements of people worldwide, this collaboration event had carved the way for a productive scholarly environment among the academics and students from both institutions. The 4-hour session had gathered at least 29 online visitors from India and Malaysia.
UTM Architecture Programme and School of Architecture and Interior Design (SAID), SRMIST has outlined multiple collaboration events in the coming months to strengthen the bilateral relationship between the universities, faculty members and to further promote collaborations in research as well as in the teaching and learning of architecture and design.
For more updates on the collaboration between UTM-SRMIST and other events conducted by UTM Architecture Programme, please visit their facebook page.
