Mohd Wira Mohd Shafiei

China’s transition toward a low-carbon economy has placed the building industry at the center of ecological modernization. This study examines sustainable building practices in contemporary Chinese urbanism through the lens of low-carbon construction management and ecological modernization theory (EMT). A dataset of 40 completed building projects across major Chinese provinces was analyzed to examine the interplay among technological innovation, managerial adaptation, and institutional incentives. The analyzed variables included operational energy performance, embodied carbon, renewable-energy integration, waste-reduction practices, certification level, managerial training, and policy support. The environmental and managerial determinants of the outcomes of the projects were assessed using descriptive and correlational analyses. The results indicate that the projects that combined prefabricated or hybrid construction systems, greater renewable-energy potential, and building information modeling had lower carbon intensity and greater reductions in carbon dioxide emissions. There was a positive correlation between managerial training and experience and the number of measures put in place to be sustainable, whereas policy incentives and green certifications were essential facilitators of modernization. On the other hand, cost sensitivity and skills shortages were still the main obstacles. From an EMT perspective, the findings suggest that China has followed a hybrid ecological modernization pathway characterized by the interaction of state guidance, technological diffusion, and managerial learning. By linking empirical evidence with EMT, the study demonstrates that innovation in construction management represents a key pathway for advancing the greening of China’s urban development paradigm. This study provides policy recommendations to enhance capacity building, institutional alignment, and technology transfer to promote a systemic low-carbon transition.

The study examines how design quality, indoor air quality, and energy efficiency affect customer satisfaction in eco-friendly houses in Shanghai, China. Further, it examines how environmental awareness mediates community participation and resident satisfaction. A stratified sampling technique is used to collect the data from 742 eligible respondents in public and private eco-residential complexes. The results show that design, air quality, and energy efficiency improve customer satisfaction. At the same time, community engagement partially mediates these correlations, stressing the importance of social cohesion in enhancing residential area quality. Environmental awareness moderated the effects and boosted the happiness benefits of energy efficiency and indoor air quality. This research uses a comprehensive framework that includes psychological, environmental, and social components to make it stand out. Instead of studying green housing benefits in general, it accomplishes this inside China’s urban sustainability program. The results help policymakers, urban planners, and housing authorities make megacity green housing more desirable and livable.

The awareness level of residents to prevent crime is increasing while the characteristics of the physical environment and atmosphere within the residential areas have been utilized to discourage crime. Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED) as an effective crime prevention strategy has been introduced since 1971 where it evolved from the first-generation to second-generation after including intangible components into the practices. Currently, the emergence of digital technologies such as Building Information Modelling (BIM) has started to gain more attention from academicians and practitioners. The features in BIM such as simulation, visualizing and estimating should be utilized to enhance CPTED effectiveness in preventing crime which will form the fundamental of third-generation CPTED. This study intended to explore the potential to integrate BIM into existing CPTED to develop a third-generation of CPTED. Therefore, this study has reviewed the journal articles pertinent to the BIM application in CPTED which elaborate the potential of BIM to be used practically to provide new concept of third-generation CPTED which embracing digital technology. This study found the potential of BIM to integrate with four tangible principles (surveillance, access control, territoriality and target hardening) and two intangible principles (sense of community, and management and maintenance) have been discussed. All existing principles can be integrated with BIM to further enhance their effectiveness but there are some conflicts found between the principles practiced in CPTED. This study has provided a comprehensive overview of the integration of BIM to CPTED practitioners for the development of third-generation CPTED in future research.

As property development and information technologies are going rapid in these few decades, information construction becomes necessarily as a management tool. Changes and variations in construction projects are common and inevitable. This paper aims to study potentials of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in managing variations. The research objective is to identify the potentials of BIM in managing variations. Qualitative method was adopted for this research. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with the respondents to collect data. Twelve respondents were chosen based on the following criteria: (a) involved in BIM projects and (b) experts with BIM knowledge. The respondents involved in the interviews are BIM software providers, BIM software resellers, BIM consultants, main contractors and government personnel in Malaysia. From the interview findings, the potentials of BIM in managing variations are to reduce the variations due to design-related changes, material-related changes, information discrepancies and construction method. Resolving design-related changes includes better visualisation, design coordination, clash detection, better decision making and minimised uncertainties. Managing material-related changes involves automated quantity taking-off, detailed plan for visualisation and material purchase plan. Reducing information discrepancies involves data digitalisation, communication and collaboration, real-time tracking changes as well as improved on request for information (RFI) process. Minimising variations due to construction method includes simulation, better site management and prefabrication with BIM. This research proves that it is necessary to promote BIM management approach in managing variations.

Contemporary rapid technological transformation demands the most optimal marketing approach to ensure organisational survival in a highly competitive business environment. Numerous studies were conducted to focus on selecting appropriate promotion tools, such as e-marketing, social media, and extended reality (XR) applications, to be applied in the current marketing methods. Nonetheless, the technological advancement availability was not thoroughly harnessed by the property sector, which lagged in adopting the innovative marketing approach to promote relevant products. Furthermore, minimal research was performed to investigate the effects of augmented reality (AR) applications in the property sector to encourage consumer purchases. The current study aims to determine the relationship between AR applications and potential house buyers’ purchase intention. Respondents were recruited based on the stipulated inclusion criteria, namely age and monthly income. A total of 130 survey booklets with housing design stimuli in the AR applications were distributed for self-completion. Resultantly, 100 completed booklets were returned. The findings revealed that AR applications possessed a significant moderate correlation with potential house buyers’ purchase intention. The results contributed additional insights into the existing marketing and consumer behaviour literature and provided several implications on the AR application potential as a property developers’ promotion tool.

This study aims to investigate the response from selected potential buyers on the marketing communication channel by using the application of virtual reality (VR) in new housing schemes. The objective of this study is to test the hypothesis relating to the channel attributes and potential buyers' purchase intentions through a within-subject design with 100 prospective house buyers. Data were analysed using correlation analysis in IBM SPSS software. It was found that the channel attributes are related to the house purchase intention as indicated by correlation values of 0.793, which indicates strong correlations. As the study uses a quantitative survey method, the data obtained may not be as precise as data obtained using a qualitative research method. Respondents can only select a few options, making it harder for them to express their true opinions. As a contribution to the housing industry, this study emphasizes the importance of VR house models in marketing communication by providing useful empirical results and recommendations based on the research results. The study integrates the current knowledge derived from the research conceptual framework to develop a smart real estate marketing strategy using VR.

The crime rate in Malaysia in increasing in every year, especially in the high-density residential area. This has brought the increase of awareness and concern on the security issues in the residential area from the residents. Thus, secure homes’ concept seems to become a dominant feature of Malaysian housing development projects today as it can improve the security criteria. However, people are still living in the fear of crime, especially in the urban areas due to the ineffectiveness of the crime prevention approaches. Therefore, this paper aims to explore the current practices of secure homes’ development and to evaluate their impacts. 129 relevant articles published between 2011 to 2020 have been collected to go through systematic literature review. The results show publications concerning on secure homes is having an exponential growth. Next, the findings showed that there are tangible criteria and intangible criteria that can reduce the crime rate significantly. The tangible criteria are surveillance, access control, territoriality and target hardening while the intangible criteria include the sense of community, and management and maintenance. The findings of this study further show that there were enough practical and theoretical proofs attesting to the desirability of secure homes as a veritable tool in residential neighborhood crime prevention. The results of this study can be used as the fundamental to develop a more effective and efficient crime prevention approach that not only apply the conventional approach but consider integrating current technologies which can greatly reduce the fear of crime.