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The construction industry believes that Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a platform to transform the construction industry to a higher level by enhancing productivity and efficiency. It is proven that with BIM process execution, productivity can be enhanced through the effective collaboration process, increased return of investment, and reliable information to support the decision-making process. Efficiency can be enhanced through an integrated design process, reliable and accurate cost estimates, reduced financial risk, and reduced potential dispute. Thus, clients are gradually enforcing the use of BIM in their projects, resulting in many construction companies investing in BIM technology to fulfil clients’ needs. This paper presents a review of over recent research to identify the key of elements of awareness, benefits, strategies and implementation of BIM. The result reveals that the top ten (10) ranking of BIM awareness, BIM benefits, BIM challenges and BIM strategies for the industry player to implement and adopt BIM in Sarawak construction industry.

-The construction industry is still plagued by poor quality, poor workmanship, poor safety and health environment, and poor practices. The current main problem in the Malaysian Construction Industry is delayed projects under the Ninth Malaysia Plan. The idea of introducing formal risk assessment among Malaysian contractors during the project planning stage is a proactive approach to achieve project objectives. Therefore, this research intends to achieve the following objectives: (1) to investigate the contractors' approaches of risk assessment techniques at the project planning stage, (2) to investigate the consequences of risk assessment techniques at the project planning stage, and (3) to determine the appropriate risk assessment techniques in dealing with the potential risk factors at the project planning stage. The research methodology applied for this research includes literature reviews and questionnaires. Findings from this research show that the application of risk assessment techniques in the Malaysian Construction Industry is still moderate. Hence, it is suggested that these contractors should try to implement formal risk assessment techniques during the project planning stage in order to achieve the project objectives.

Construction activities must conserved energy, land, water and material to successfully implementing green construction, while planning and managing the work regarding the minimisation of environmental impacts related to the construction process. Notwithstanding this, many arguments and discrepancies between the ideal form of green construction and existing construction due to the practical difficulties in realizing the concept of green construction. This paper critically reviews the existing green building assessment tools, theoretical framework and the critical success factors based on literature review search. Investigating the existing green building assessment tools, theoretical framework and critical success factors are fundamental in determining the successful implementation of green construction in the Malaysian construction environment. Keywords Critical success factors Á Green building assessment tools Á Theoretical framework Á Green construction Á Malaysian construction environment 1 Introduction Construction industry in Malaysia is considered the fastest developing country in Asia and has contributed 3-7 % to the Gross Development Product (GDP). The current GDP has contributed to 6.2 % in the first quarter of 2014. For five consecutive quarters, the construction sector continued to register impressive growth with