{"id":18174,"date":"2013-04-04T17:18:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T09:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/fabu2024\/?p=11480"},"modified":"2013-04-04T17:18:22","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T09:18:22","slug":"planning-students-waterfront","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/fabu2024\/planning-students-waterfront\/","title":{"rendered":"UTM Planning Student\u2019s Waterfront Vision Won the Heart of International Judges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Two teams of 8 students from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia\u2019s Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning Program won the heart of an eminent panel of international judges with their innovative and visionary ideas for a sustainable waterfront in Iskandar Malaysia.\u00a0 The UTM teams, which hailed from the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Built Environment, bagged the 1<sup>st<\/sup> and 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Runners Up in Category C of the \u2018Planning a Clean &amp; Green Waterfront: Youth Leaders for a Sustainable Future Competition 2013\u2019, which pitched them against top Singaporean tertiary institutions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0The prestigious competition, which commenced on 02 February 2013 and concluded in the Final Prototype Building and Prize Award Ceremony on 17 March 2013, was organised by Activistar Private Limited, Singapore.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0The competition featured prominent international partners\/sponsors such as the Iskandar Regional Development Authority (IRDA); the Urban Land Institute (ULI); International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP); Future Cities Laboratory (FCL) by ETH Zurich and Singapore\u2019s National Research Foundation (NRF); and Centre for Liveable Cities Singapore.\u00a0 The competition was supported by the Swiss Embassy; Embassy of Vietnam; the Belgium Embassy; the National Institute of Education (NIE) Singapore; Asia Europe Foundation; Holcim; Procter &amp; Gamble; Pacific Radiance; Mulpha Holdings; and Keppel Land International, among others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0The panel of judges comprised ambassadors, professors, CEOs and senior officials from the above partners\/sponsors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0Five UTM teams comprising 20 Year-3 Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning students, guided by five young academic staff, submitted five proposals to the competition and all five teams were admitted to the final after strict screenings of proposals, pitching them against five other finalists from Singaporean tertiary institutions.\u00a0 In the final rounds, finalists were required to orally present and defend their proposals before a select panel of judges (16 March) and construct a prototype model of their proposal in three hours (17 March), after which the final judgment was made.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0Chau Loon Wai (UTM Urban Planning Lecturer and Registered Town Planner) who led the UTM teams in the final rounds observed that the competition was stiff as each finalist team put forth and professionally defended their best innovative ideas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0The two UTM teams\u2019 advancement to the final and winning at the competition testify to the quality and effectiveness of research and teaching in the university, and the innovativeness and competency of UTM graduates, which are at least at par with prominent institutions in the region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0The list of the UTM teams is as follows:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>Team 1 \u2013 Tanjung Langsat Clean &amp; Green Port City \u2013 1<sup>st<\/sup> Runner Up<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Anis Shazreen Azmi<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Norfadiera Ramli<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Nur Shazwani Saari<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Saidah Sariff<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>Team 2 \u2013 Revisiting Puteri Garden \u2013 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Runner Up<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Mohd Safuan Mohd Kamil<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Mlysha Nurshyla Abd Rahim<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Nuraisha Azmi<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Nurul Fatin Mohd Jais<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>Team 3 \u2013 Equilibrium between Urban Scape and Nature (Finalist)<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Mohd Fadzil Abdullah<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Mohd Shafiq Rasid<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Nadhirah Nordin<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Siti Sarah Abdul Jabar<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>Team 4 \u2013 Laguna Waterfront Iskandar Malaysia (Finalist)<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Rohayu Abdullah<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Nurul Farahen Ibrahim<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Adilah Jamaludin<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Efariza Abdul Hamit<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>Team 5 \u2013 The Re-development Plan of JB Waterfront (Finalist)<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Iskandar Mirza Abdul Aziz<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Mohd Zaki Bahrudin<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Muhd Afize Adnan<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Badrul Amir Jusoh<\/p>\n<div class=\"et_pb_slider et_pb_slider_fullwidth_off et_pb_gallery_post_type\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_slides\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div id=\"__tbSetup\"><\/div>\n<p>\/\/ <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two teams of 8 students from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia\u2019s Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning Program won the heart of an eminent panel of international judges with their innovative and visionary ideas for a sustainable waterfront in Iskandar Malaysia.\u00a0 The UTM teams, which hailed from the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Built [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":11491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-slider","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/fabu2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/fabu2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/fabu2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/fabu2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/fabu2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/fabu2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/fabu2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/menu-items\/11491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/fabu2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/fabu2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/fabu2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}