The construction sector has lagged behind regarding quality development. Though quality issues have become the major concern in the construction industry, there is an absence of the theory that propagates construction quality among contractors which lead to quality performance. This paper discusses the adaptation criteria for the Malaysian contractors that could be adapt for the management as well as the staff. Extensive literature reviews were done to identify adaptation criteria within the Malaysian context. Therefore, this paper encourages the contractors to implement these criteria in the workplace in order to improve the quality of life of contractors that will lead to project success.

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The construction sector has lagged behind regarding quality development. Though quality issues have become the major concern in the construction industry, there is an absence of the theory that propagates construction quality which lead to quality performance. This paper discusses the adaptation criteria for the Malaysian contractors that could be adapt for the management as well as the staff. Extensive literature reviews were done to identify adaptation criteria within the Malaysian context. Therefore, this paper encourages the contractors to implement these criteria in the workplace to improve the quality of life of contractors that will lead to project success.Keywords: Quality Culture; Adaptation; Criteria; MalaysianeISSN 2398-4279 © 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.

The heritage building is a valuable asset to humans and countries due to the grandeur symbolization and the dignity representation of a country. However, the dramatic changes on the historical building physical feature has been documented poorly. Subsequently, the depletion of the building information has making the maintenance works intricate. On site surveying might difficult due to the safety issue that putting manpower into risky circumstances. Advance technology may allow many to obtain information using aid of remote sensing, photogrammetry, geographic information system (GIS) and 3D laser scanning. The projection of the As Built Drawing might possible without utilisation of BIM as an analyser for the raw information congregated. Thus, the objective of this research is to develop an ‘As Built Drawing’ for heritage building using Building Information Modelling (BIM) as an information processor. The methodology involved the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) application and Terrestrial Laser Scanner, photogrammetry image then been analysed using BIM. The identification of design properties of heritage building was obtained which consisted of architectural properties and structural properties. Therefore, the development of ‘As Built Drawing’ will be produced completely using BIM and in the other hand solving the problem on facilities management on the historical building.

As many developed country practise, the function of the infrastructure is to connect the each region of Malaysia holistically and infrastructure is an investment network projects such as transportation water and sewerage, power, communication and irrigations system. Hence, a billions allocations of government income reserved for the sake of the infrastructure development. Towards a successful infrastructure development, a joint venture approach has been promotes by 2016 in one of the government thrust in Construction Industry Transformation Plan which encourage the internationalisation among contractors. However, there is depletion in information on the actual practise of the infrastructure joint venture projects in Malaysia. Therefore, this study attempt to explore the real application of the joint venture in Malaysian infrastructure projects. Using the questionnaire survey, a set of survey question distributed to the targeted respondents. The survey contained three section which the sections are respondent details, organizations background and project capital in infrastructure joint venture project. The results recorded and analyse using SPSS software. The contractors stated that they have implemented the joint venture practice with mostly the client with the usual construction period of the infrastructure project are more than 5 years. Other than that, the study indicates that there are problems in the joint venture project in the perspective of the project capital and the railway infrastructure should be given a highlights in future study due to its high significant in term of cost and technical issues.