AP224 BACHELOR OF QUANTITY SURVEYING (HONOURS)

SCHOOL OF CONSTRUCTION & QUANTITY SURVEYING,

COLLEGE OF BUILT ENVIRONMENT (CBE),
UITM, SHAH ALAM

PROGRAMME CODE : CFAP224

SEMESTER : 03
SESSION : OCT 2023 – FEB. 2024
COURSE / CODE : RESEARCH METHODOLOGY (BQS514)

ASSIGNMENT 2 – LITERATURE REVIEW

Aim :
Develop students’ knowledge and understanding to the process of writing literature review, writing
referencing/citations, and understanding plagiarism.

Instructions:
This is a continuation of Assignment 1.
For the report, students should use Arial 12 font and 1.5 spacing with justified alignment.

Task :
Choose ONE (1) topic/title within the construction industry that you would be interested to conduct
research on. This could be the topic from your assignment 1 or any other topic that has been endorsed
by your lecturer.
You are to complete the following :

Marks
1. Find five (5) articles from refereed journals – UiTM library online Database, Google 15
Scholar, etc. (2023 - 2018) which are relevant to your topic.

Develop a literature matrix based on the five (5) journal articles to help you in writing the
literature review. The literature review matrix produced should be in table form with
information on author/year, title, aim, methodology, findings and conclusions pertaining
to each article.
2. Write a literature review based on the five (5) journal articles previously identified in (1). 15

Your literature review should contain an introduction, the ‘body’ or main content of the
literature and a conclusion, which should not be more than 1500 words. You should make
sure that the articles you choose as your citation are significant and relate to your
research.

Is it advisable to include Bibliographic analysis or Meta-analysis in your Literature Review.

3. List down all your references by using the APA System of Reference (7th Edition). 5
4. Print your Ouriginal Similarity Report (acceptable Ouriginal percentage is 30% and below) 5
TOTAL 40
Total marks (Reduced to 20%)

Issued : Week 6
Submission : Week 9 (8/12/2023)
 Appendix 1
Table 1: Literature review matrix (examples)

Author/Year Title Aim/Objectives Scope Methodology Analysis/Findings Conclusion Implication for

future research
Zairul (2021) Opening the To identify the All relevant Involved an The findings from Some issues The outcomes are
pandora’s box of issues pertaining publications on investigation via the code-to- remained expected to
issues in the the IBS issues and an extensive document report in unsolved and benefit the
Industrialised implementation keywords from review paper on ATLAS.ti 8 little research has direction of
Building System of IBS in 2016-2021 IBS and analysis revealed several been conducted future research
(IBS) in Malaysia using thematic issues in IBS to propose for a and to identify
Malaysia: A review based on the more innovative the gap for
thematic review pattern of issues business model future solutions
on IBS. in IBS-related
projects in
Malaysia
Wong, Value-Based To evaluate the Public hospital in Quantitative The results reveal The value-adding The requirement
Olanrewaju, & Building causal Malaysia method; online that value-adding practice has the for collaborative
Lim (2021) Maintenance relationships questionnaire practices and strongest impact working
Practices for between value survey value co-creation on value arrangements for
Public Hospitals factors and value have a positive outcomes. Thus, value co-creation
in Malaysia outcomes of influence on value maintenance of building
building outcomes in service providers maintenance.
maintenance in hospitals should assimilate
public hospitals these practices in
in Malaysia their services to
enhance
performance.
Article 3
Article 4
Article 5

References
Wong, W. F., Olanrewaju, A. L., & Lim, P. I. (2021). Value-based building maintenance practices for public hospitals in malaysia. Sustainability (Switzerland), 13(11).
https://doi.org/10.3390/su13116200
Zairul, M. (2021). Opening the pandora’s box of issues in the industrialised building system (ibs) in malaysia: A thematic review. Journal of Applied Science and
Engineering (Taiwan), 25(2), 297–310. https://doi.org/10.6180/jase.202204_25(2).0006