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Real estate organisations offering valuation services are subject to the complexity of the property industry. The progress of the property market has made real estate organisationsseek for their core competencies.Thus, wouldinvite for proper knowledge management implementation. The motive of this study was to explore the implementation obstacles for knowledge management in the real estate organisation and to understand the situations. This study was using theinterview as the main data collection instrument and had collected various responses from the respondents. It overviewed the current state of real estate practice and indicated any possible improvements.

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A Transportation infrastructure projects often involve the considerable land use and huge resource that can cause serious impacts to the environment and social dislocation. Hence, implementation of sustainable factors is essential. This paper attempts (1) to review infrastructure project sustainability factor and performance, and (2) to propose a framework of relationship between the sustainability factors and performance for railway projects in Malaysia. The results from the literature show that sustainability factors and performance can be categorized under environment, economic, social, engineering/resource utilization and project management. Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ajqol.v3i9.86 Amiril, A., et.al. / Asian Journal of Quality of Life (AjQoL), 3(9) Jan / Feb 2018 (p.151-160) 152 , UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/bync-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 EnvironmentBehaviour Studies), Faculty of IntroductionThe concept of sustainable infrastructure development has emerged since the Brundtland Report on 1987. The report defines sustainable development "meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own need", (Lim, 2009). According to Huang and Yeh (2008), the importance of sustainable infrastructure development is that it has a significant impact on the environment, economy and society. For instance, disturbance of human life and ecosystem resulted from construction and regeneration of infrastructure project development. Furthermore, infrastructure project development presents numerous challenges such as projects are time consuming, costly, and not always sustainable (Lothe, 2006).Previous research in the field of sustainability infrastructure development has defined the term sustainability in a number of ways. The United Nations ESCAP (2006) defines sustainable infrastructure as infrastructure in harmony with the continuation of sustainability in the economy and environment by designing and maintaining buildings, structures and other facilities with an eye towards resource conservation over the life of the infrastructure. National Research Council of the National Academies, (2009) has referred infrastructure sustainability as a lifeline system that enables meet the needs of current and future generations through cost-effective, physically resilient, socially equitable and environmentally viable.Sustainability of infrastructure transportation development is defined through it impacts on the economy, environment for and social benefits; measured by system efficiency and effectiveness (Khalid et al., 2012;Jeon & Amekudzi, 2005). On the other hand, Amekudzi et al. (2009) expressed sustainability of transportation development as a safe, efficient acc...

Effective training programmes that is underpinned by integrated content holds the role to ensure that effective delivery of knowledge can be absorbed appropriately by the personnel of Valuation and Property Services Department (JPPH) that have undergone the training programmes being organized. This study is conducted to identify the effect of training programmes towards the level of knowledge of the personnel involved in stamp duty valuation. Due to its importance of the provision of the training programmes given to the personnel of an organization, hence, an investigation related to the effect of the content of the training programmes towards the knowledge of the personnel of Valuation and Property Services Department (JPPH) in stamp duty valuation has been conducted. This is to identify if the content of the training programmes conducted by the National Institute of Valuation (INSPEN) towards the personnel of Valuation and Property Services Department (JPPH) has ensured effectiveness and has ensured the fulfillment of the requirement of the personnel in executing their tasks effectively. This study has been conducted focusing on stamp duty involving six (6) offices of the Valuation and Property Services Department (JPPH) within Klang Valley that has included the District Valuer, Valuation Officer and Assistant Valuation Officer, who are engaged in the valuation process of stamp duty, as respondents. Interview approach, pilot study, content analysis, application of Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) has been employed to achieve the main objective of this study. Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) which has been used in this study, is to determine the relative importance of the level of knowledge of the personnel in Valuation and Property Services Department (JPPH) and also acts as the instrument that can be applied as a guide in the effort to improve the performance in the content of training programmes to fulfill the expectation and requirement of the personnel during the valuation process of the stamp duty. In summary, this study has proven that there is strong relationship between knowledge contained in the training programmes content with the level of knowledge of the personnel in stamp duty valuation.