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This paper identifies the Facility Manager's competency in Malaysia's hospital construction distinguishes was conducted on the importance of the facility manager's competence for a complex construction project such as hospital construction. There is thus a need to study the competence of facilities managers at the level of hospital construction. Directly, the involvement of the facility manager at the construction stage can reduce the cost of operating the building. The data for this study was collected via questionnaire survey distributed to the architects, engineers, quantity surveyors, public hospital staff and facilities managers directly involved in the construction of public hospitals in Malaysia. The data obtained were analyzed using descriptive analysis techniques and relative value index (RII). The findings found that all respondents felt that leadership factors, communication factors, operating and maintenance factors, human factors, property and property management factors, and business preparedness and business balance factors were factors influencing facility manager competence at the construction stage.

The value of innovation in the construction industry has grown substantially. Thus, embracing innovative approaches such as the E-tendering system can overcome many challenges in tendering process and promote cost savings, reduce waste, and improve efficiency. Etendering system refers to an advanced technology that combines the idea of entering and conducting the construction tendering process electronically. Currently, the electronic business has shifted in the current Malaysian scenario coupled with the impacts of the pandemic situation. Thus, this paper explores the acknowledgement of the E-tendering system among developers in the Malaysian construction industry. This paper aims to identify the challenges and benefits of E-tendering, focusing on developers' perspectives. A quantitative approach was adopted by distributing a questionnaire survey to developers in the Klang Valley. A total of 135 respondents participated in this study. Data gathered from the survey was analysed using descriptive analysis via the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 26 software. The results summarised that the E-tendering system provides significant resource savings to a substantial portion of the construction supply chain. The primary advantages of this method are improved communication and considerable cost and time savings. However, a sizeable segment of the sector continues to be sceptical of this new technology adoption, with reluctance to change seen as the main obstacle. The findings from this study are beneficial for private-sector construction practitioners to understand the benefits of increasing the usage of E-tendering to ease the construction tendering process. This study has highlighted the significance of E-tendering to become generally accepted in the Malaysian construction industry, enabling it to transform into one of the most technologically advanced industries.

In responding to the construction quantification learning effect and academic achievements of the quantity surveying learners, the study examines the effects of several potential characteristics concerning specific individual differences such as cognitive abilities and demographics. Specifically, the study aims to compare the effects of individual differences in cognitive thinking, such as low or high spatial visualisation abilities and the demographics of learners (gender and age), towards the construction quantification achievement. The target respondent would be the quantity surveying learners (potential semi-professional graduates) in Malaysian public institutions. This preliminary study used a quantitative approach to determine the critical factors and indicators that lead to learners' moderate performance in the construction quantification course. A significant relationship between spatial visualisation ability (SVA) and the construction quantification achievement concludes that spatial intelligence serves as a framework to support people facing difficulties interpreting 2dimensional (2D) graphics representation. Seemingly, SVA is crucial to be possessed by the potential learners who wish to enrol in the quantity surveying programme. To successfully function and become more independent construction quantification learners in quantity surveying technical disciplines programme, these people need to have more spatial ability. However, there are no significant differences between different gender and age learners categories in spatial visualisation ability test (SVAT) scores and the construction quantification test (CQT) scores as the findings were insignificant. The result obtained in this study hoped to clarify the importance of cognitive ability and demographic differences to the construction quantification achievement.

Among the roles of the project manager in a project execution is to control the occurrence of variation orders. This research aims to determine the project manager's roles in reducing the occurrence of variation orders in a construction project. The research data were gathered via responses from project managers of construction companies via a questionnaire survey. The 122 responses obtained were then analysed using descriptive analysis. Out of the eight (8) project manager roles tested in the questionnaire survey, it was found that all of them are significant in helping to reduce the occurrence of variation orders in a construction project. The most significant role of the project manager in reducing the occurrence of variation orders in a construction project was effective communication between stakeholders. Good transparency in communication initiated by the project manager could avoid conflicts related to the contract documents. This research provides additional information and knowledge for researchers in further research as well as practitioners to constantly reduce the variation order on construction projects.