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Flood risk is increasing in Malaysia specifically around river which influencing of climate change. The aim of this study is assessing the vulnerability of building materials by revealing the degree of loss for each structure. There are most five common materials has been assessing namely: brick, concrete block, steel wall panels, wooden wall and precast concrete framing. This research was conducted on 110 buildings, to record detailed attributes of each building in the city of Kuantan. Afterwards, the interviews were conducted with residents of 85 households along with a local authority staff expert. The lowest flood depth that effected on wall building was 25 cm and the highest depth of flood was recorded 150 cm. In general, the interview revealed that the flood lasted for 48 hours. The vulnerability of the structural type of building is determined from the percentages of damage to the wall material resulting from occurrence of the flood. Vulnerability curves were made for these five structural types, by plotting the relationships between flood depth and damage for each structural type. The result shows that by increasing the flood depth wood wall encounter by more damage, which needs more cost to repair. In other hand, Concrete block wall, which consider as one of the industrial building systems has less damage against floodwater. Although, until the depth of 75 cm both Concrete block wall and precast concrete has a same stability. The result of this research can help housemaker to choose the best material for building in flood zone area, which needs less cost in repair stage after flood hit the building.

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Standardization of building process in medical sectors has provided the ground for specialization levels, ensuring the future buildings will have better quality. The life span of Health Centers in Iran is only one quarter of same building in other countries, which leads to extra cost for both structure and non-structure (hospital facilities & equipment) and So far, there are no approved regulations to make health care spaces. The aims of this research are reducing the cost of building, facilities and equipment and increasing productivity implies the provision of standard spaces in which the facilities are optimized by proposing Quality management model. This research has discussed the deficiency of building regulations in healthcare sector. The interviews accomplished for collecting data about defects in construction of health center and hospital. The primarily result shows that the budget estimates are not correct, design is done poorly, and studies are not accurate, so long construction time can cause a depreciation of structures. Due to the increasing need of society for healthcare spaces and their high level of construction, standard regulations should be regarded in cost optimization and increasing productivity and quality in order to maintain national assets for future generations. Finally, based on requirement a model is suggested for improving current practice definition and revision of existing laws for medical spaces. The model has been divided into ten categories namely: planning, organize, communicate, substructure, education, leading the process, control, predict variation, accessory measures and finally documentation.