Introduction
IBSC 2025 is a conference dedicated to promoting the significance and advancement of building surveying works in the construction industry. This conference is deliberately planned for various backgrounds in the Built Environment who are frequently involved in building surveying scope of works. With the advance of technologies and the wave of Industry Revolution, IBSC offers an opportunity for awareness and enhancement of knowledge and to keeping-up with the latest know-how in the field. IBSC also invites guest speakers including distinguished overseas experts, to discuss about the key issues on the Building Surveying practices.
CPD points are applied from respective professional bodies. This conference is organised by the Department of Building Surveying, Faculty of Built Environment, UM, and co-organised with the Public Works Department Malaysia, Royal Institutions of Surveyors Malaysia (RISM) (Sarawak Branch), Liverpool John Moores University, and University of Technology Sydney with its supported organisation Business Events (BE) Sarawak.
List of topic areas
- Building Surveying:
- drone & remote sensing in surveying, development, by-laws, building control, pathology, defects, condition assessment, inspection, building performance, legal, POE.
- Architecture & Planning Studies:
- design, planning, architectural studies, heritage, legal, housing, geospatial.
- Management & Governance:
- building maintenance, asset, facilities management, legal, risk, project management, property management, contracts, legal, professional practice.
- Building & Construction:
- design, structure, construction, technology, risk, BIM.
- Computer & Environmental Science:
- machine learning, energy, simulation, indoor air quality, indoor environmental quality, building information modelling, data mining, artificial intelligence (AI), big data, internet of things (IoT), climate change.
- Engineering & Material Science:
- engineering studies, building engineering technology.
Submissions Information
Submissions are made using ScholarOne Manuscripts. Registration and access are available here.
Author guidelines must be strictly followed.
Authors should select (from the drop-down menu) the special issue title at the appropriate step in the submission process, i.e. in response to "Please select the issue you are submitting to".
Submitted articles must not have been previously published, nor should they be under consideration for publication anywhere else while under review for this journal.
Key deadlines
Opening date for manuscripts submissions: 26th May, 2025
Closing date for manuscripts submission: 25th November, 2025