Mohammed Ali Berawi

University of Indonesia | UI · Department Civil Engineering

The fact that more people are living in cities is an important challenge for the construction industry in designing and developing cities. This industry emphasizes to have sustainable construction development principles, one of which is Green Building strategies. Because of this, several developed countries have implemented Green Building Rating Sy...

Urbanization in Indonesia has led to increased waste generation, posing significant challenges to sustainability. Until now, the method for collecting and transporting waste in Indonesia is still done manually. Nusantara, the New State Capital of Indonesia, aims to address these challenges through the adoption of a Smart Waste Management System (SW...

As stated in the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) document, which establishes emission reduction objectives for 2030, the Government of Indonesia has ratified the Paris Agreement, a worldwide agreement to decrease emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) and to address the consequences of climate change. This was accomplished through Law No. 16...

The rise of large cities worldwide has spurred the emergence of Transit Oriented Development (TOD) as an urban planning concept. Indonesia, including Jakarta, has begun implementing TOD strategies. To facilitate TOD in Indonesia, this study proposes a conceptual mobile app, TOD.id, informed by preliminary research. It introduces a novel tax approac...

Smart building is a building development approach utilizing digital and communication technology to improve occupants' comfort inside the building and help increase energy usage efficiency in building operations. Despite its benefits, the smart building concept is still slowly adopted, particularly in developing countries. The advancement of comput...

Public-Private Partnership (PPP) schemes in delivering economic and social infrastructure are growing in developing countries worldwide. Various developing countries, including Indonesia, has also been preparing and developing numerous projects, ranging from larger-scale economic infrastructures that include toll roads to multifunction satellites a...

Indonesia is building its new capital city, Ibu Kota Nusantara (IKN), to create inclusive and more equitable economic growth by shifting the center of its economic gravity from Jakarta in Java to IKN in Kalimantan Island. Apart from aiming to become a new economic generator for equal distribution of the national economy, smart and sustainable IKN i...

We, Lilis Mulyani, Ivan Kurniawan Nasution, and Mochamad Felani Budi Hartanto, researchers from PRMB (Research Centre for Society and Culture) BRIN (National Research and Innovation Agency), approached Professor Mohammed Ali Berawi of the Nusantara Capital City Authority for a dialogue in his office at Mandiri Tower, Jakarta. About half a year ago,...

Purpose – this study investigates alternative a small-scale social business model that potentially generate sustainable income for households at the base of the pyramid. A comparison of two low-cost housings that have a different geographical condition and local characteristics is examined. Research methodology – this research adopted two-stage app...

Continuing with my previous editorial notes on smart cities and technology advancement, this note discusses how smart cities can be enablers to achieving sustainable development agendas. Smart cities harness technological and digital solutions to address urban challenges and continuously improve citizens’ quality of life. The key benefits of smart...

Public rail transport infrastructure has been developed to address urban issues in some major cities worldwide, including Jakarta, Indonesia. Despite its development, the rail transit ridership is not optimal yet, since traffic flows on the roads are still heavy and cause congestion. Therefore, the modal shift on rail transit in should be increased...

In order to increase economic growth, the Government of Indonesia is making efforts to accelerate infrastructure projects, one of which is the Trans Sumatera Toll Road. This is expected to help increase economic growth and connectivity on the Sumatera island. Sumatera Island is an area that has abundant natural resource potential. However, this pot...

Technology has long been regarded to be one of the key drivers of economic growth and a major contributor to a nation's competitiveness. Technology is seen as a significant instrument for increasing the value of a product, project, or service while using the same amount of available resources or capital. Rapid technological improvement and inventio...

Green building (GB) is a design concept that implements sustainable processes and green technologies in the building's life cycle. However, the design process of GB tends to take longer than conventional buildings due to the integration of various green requirements and performances into the building design. Advanced artificial intelligence (AI) me...

The new Capital City of Indonesia, Nusantara (Ibu Kota Nusantara - IKN), is set to be inaugurated in August 2024 with celebrations of Indonesia’s national day. The state capital is expected to be a smart, sustainable, and resilient city. Technology, as an enabler of smart city development, will be utilized as a solution to tackle urban problems. Fo...

The Green building (GB) concept has been widely adopted by practitioners from the building and construction industry in the last few decades as an effort to reduce the negative environment al impacts caused by the development of the built environment. GB concept emphasizes resource usage efficiency, which focuses on conserving the natural resources...

The International Scientific Conference on Innovations in Digital Economy: SPbPU IDE 2021 was held at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU), St. Petersburg, Russia during October 22–23, 2021. This conference was conducted jointly by the Graduate School of Industrial Economics (GSIE) at SPbPU and the Center for Sustainable In...

Energy efficiency and occupant wellbeing are complex concepts increasingly becoming a mainstream building and construction industry focal point. These concepts demand deciding not only the appropriate building materials, techniques, and systems but also abstract qualities, which are challenging to quantify. As recent automation technologies have ad...

Achieving project objectives that are effective, efficient, and safe requires careful planning of construction methods. The construction method of a project may vary depending on the description and design of the project. Planning for construction methods generally takes a long time to review, involves many parties, and requires consideration in te...

EPC project is one of complex construction project types which differs from ordinary construction projects. It owns more frequent delayed occurrence than ordinary construction projects. EPC projects tends to be labor and knowledge intensive. Inputs and outputs at EPC project management involve various knowledge and intellectual creative activities....

For the last few decades the High-Speed Rail has been growing quite rapidly in various parts of the world. However, many High-Speed Rail Projects were not as successful as expected. Most of the contributing factors were over-estimate demand and cost-overrun. This study aims to formulate a strategy in order to increase the demand for the Jakarta-Ban...

Currently, Indonesia’s logistics system has not been maximized, as evidenced by the high cost of logistics that account for about 23.5% of GDP nationally and still far from developed countries that are only 10% of GDP even less. This paper evaluates the performance of logistics systems in Indonesia based on government policy. The cost component tha...

Designers usually use Building Performance Simulation (BPS) to support decision making in facing design requirements and expected building performance. However, the fact is that BPS still experiences several limitations, such as BPS requires high computation time in assessing various design options. Machine learning is considered capable of solving...

Major global cities are faced with the increased concentration of urban areas and mounting complex problems caused by rapid urbanization and industrialization. Therefore, to have the quality of city life improved while ensuring our environment is sustained, those issues need to be handled by changing the way the urban spaces are managed. Urban deve...

The development of new cities requires comprehensive planning that can respond to the challenges of the pace of urbanization such as environmental sustainability, climate change, and socio-economic crisis. It goes without saying that new cities should be constructed for the urban future to meet the growing social and economic needs of populations....

Existing healthy building standards and guidelines are based on the dose exposure point of view, where certain doses of safe or comfortable exposure to light, sound, air quality, water quality and indoor temperature are established. This poses a substandard outlook of designing a healthy indoor environment which is defined by more than just levels...

Construction industry has been developing rapidly in past years. Adaptation of new technology in this digital era is highly needed to be able to compete within the industry development. Precast concrete implementation used to be one solution for speeding up project performance. But the production of the precast concrete itself also needs to boost t...

The Group of Twenty (G20), comprised of 19 countries and the European Union, is an intergovernmental forum for addressing issues on global economic, financial stability, climate change mitigation, and sustainable development. The collective collaboration from industrialized nations and nations with emerging economies plays an important role in ensu...

Many global companies specializing in complex technological systems use forms of group decision making to select a combination of solutions from suppliers. This requires technical expertise and up-to-date awareness of what is available within and outside the company. The use of artificial intelligence seems like an obvious progression but is fraugh...

Innovative digital technologies—supported by humanistic societies—are required to balance our economic advancement and environmental regeneration. The well-being of our future will depend on how well we can produce technologies that can improve our climate, health, social equity, and stability. New technologies have been used to enhance productivit...

Land value capture (LVC) has shown great potential in financing urban rail system infrastructure, such as transit-oriented development (TOD). However, the government of Indonesia has not tapped this potential in order to close its infrastructure financing gap. This study aims to determine the incremental rate captured through a tax-based LVC mechan...

The COVID-19 pandemic is still affecting many aspects of human life. Many efforts have been carried out by many parties in the fields of health and demographics, food security, secure and clean water, green and efficient energy sources, climate change, quality education and secure communities. The response of many scientists and technologists durin...

Confidential documents in possession of government agencies are considered as assets that must be protected. Government agencies have started implementing cloud data storage systems to document data in a centralized network. However, this data storage system has been well-known as being threatened by data security, integrity, and data availability...

Over the past two years, the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected all aspects of human life. The pandemic has become an issue of serious global concern in both developing and developed countries, with impacts including rapidly changing health and demographic conditions, threatened food security, declining quality of education at all levels,...

To achieve its vision of becoming a developed and prosperous economy in 2045, Indonesia focuses on expanding its regional development by developing its six economic corridors based on each corridor’s potential industries. Therefore, adequate infrastructure that improves regional connectivity and drives economic activities should be developed to hel...

The Graduate School of Industrial Economics (GSIE) of Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) and the Centre for Sustainable Infrastructure Development (CSID) of Universitas Indonesia (UI) present the annual International Scientific Conference on Innovations in the Digital Economy: SPBPU IDE-2021. The spread of Covid-19 has...

Natural gas is one of the primary hydrocarbon energies in Indonesia. The construction of natural gas production facilities is essential to accommodate domestic energy needs. These facilities include production, pipelines, and processing facilities in an integrated manner. This study used the hydrocarbon composition of Field-X with an average of 7.6...

For the first time, Indonesia will host the G20 Presidency in 2022 with the theme of "Recover Together, Recover Stronger", which reflects the spirit of collective global recovery needed after the world has struggled to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic since early 2020. The theme sets out the vision that no one is left behind and, with this collectiv...

Indonesia is a country that has enormous geographical potential for earthquake disasters. This makes Indonesia must have a good disaster management system between the institutions involved in disaster response. The use of information and communication technology has been widely used for disaster management throughout the world, primarily mobile pho...

Provision of transportation services and infrastructure provision is an essential key to economic growth and sustainable development. As one of the developing countries, Indonesia is currently trying to improve its competitiveness by increasing the quality and availability of train services and infrastructure. Train services play a crucial role in...

The International Scientific Conference on Innovations in Digital Economy: SPbPU IDE-2020 was held at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic Universi-ty, St. Petersburg, Russia on October 22–23, 2020. This conference was conduct-ed jointly by the Graduate School of Industrial Economics (GSIE) at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic Univer...

Crowdfunding is an approach that has been widely used to raise capital from individuals to finance a venture, known for its ability to reach a large pool of new capital gathered from the crowd. Though it has been extensively applied to finance property developments in real estate industry in some countries, crowdfunding method still has some drawba...

Technology development is an important means of improving economic and socio-cultural conditions. It transforms our knowledge into an artifact that can be used to modernize our civilization and improve our quality of life. Moreover, companies must be innovative to survive and remain competitive; thus, they must exploit their capabilities through th...

Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) is a city concept that encourages public transport usage (transit). However, the development of the TOD in Jakarta is currently still focused on the development of residential buildings near the station. It causes a shift in the essence of TOD to TAD, Transit Adjacent Development, an area that is close to transit...

Infrastructure development plays a crucial role in accelerating the sustainable economic growth and development of a country. The increased provision of public infrastructure can help raise the GDP growth level by lowering production costs, enlarging markets, raising total factor productivity,and facilitating economic activities. Furthermore, infra...

Natural disasters have harmful effects on human lives and the economy, as well as physical damage to the environment. Previous research has discussed technological and social perspectives to cope with disaster events, but limited evidence was found on the communication between victims and rescuers and mobile applications' impact as the means of com...

Building on my previous editorial notes on sustainable development themes, I would like to expand our discussion on how the concept of cross-sectoral coordination can be a booster for the sustainable development agenda. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) established actions to end poverty, improve health and education, and promote prosperity...

Construction practitioners have adopted the green building (GB) concept to restore environmental damage caused by the built environment over the last decade. However, there is inconclusive debate regarding GB savings’ potential to recover the cost of construction, maintenance, and renewals. This paper evaluates the feasibility of green-certified of...

The processes of innovation diffusion during fourth industrial revolution reshape economic systems and cause structural changes in different economic sectors and spheres. These innovations have become the basis of the new digital infrastructure of society. The conference SPBPU IDE-2020 was organized by Peter the Great Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic U...

The increased energy consumption in office building led to stakeholders’ renewed interests in optimizing office buildings’ energy performances, such as indoor comfort, energy efficiency, and life cycle costs. One of the most effective solutions to hedging against building operation optimization is incorporating energy efficiency measures and archit...

Photovoltaic (PV) experiences significant growth and has been installed in many locations worldwide over the past decades. However, selecting the best alternative of PV system remains a problem in developing countries, often involving both stakeholders’ interests and multiple objectives. This research proposes a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had significant negative impacts on most countries’ resilience having unleashed major health, social, and economic shocks. The trauma varies across countries and industries, and many governments have announced fiscal packages to fund substantially increased public health measures, social assistance for vulnerable people, a...

The rapid demand for goods shipping and increasing role of sea transportation services make countries that have sea territory developed sea transportation infrastructure. They do not only develop for transportation, exploitation of marine products, and tourism but also make seafront areas as the potential development of the new city of Seatropolis....

The large-scale and continuous increase in the number of urbanization make the daily needs in urban areas more diverse and significantly following to increase. The basic needs become the main thing to make the stability and survival of the city area that must get support from the surrounding environment. The concept of transit-oriented development...

Much attention has been paid to practices and methods for improving the safety management of construction projects using an incentive approach, but limited studies have been found that focus on the disincentive program, particularly in developing countries such as Indonesia. This research aims to present the findings of current practice on the disi...

Utilizing Industry 4.0 technologies to create a sustainable energy industry enables a decentralized energy system in which energy can be effectively produced, managed, and controlled from local resources. Furthermore, the technologies also enable data capture and analysis to improve energy performance. As digital energy is being developed and incre...

Transit-oriented development (TOD) areas are being constructed in Indonesia, particularly in Jakarta, since the issuance of the Regulation of Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning in 2017. This development has led to an increasing supply of apartment units in Jakarta, but this is contrary to the declining residential property sales, whi...

The current need to reduce dependence on non-renewable fuels has contributed a lot to the rapid growth of renewable energy systems and electric vehicles. One of the exciting sources of energy storage is the battery. The development of lithium-based batteries is an exciting trend and is continuously being developed for long life and high-level batte...

COVID-19 outbreak has contributed a negative effect on the infrastructure sector worldwide. Infrastructure projects need to shut down and put on hold for an unspecified time, as this sector required a high number of workers prone to the virus transmissions. However, the degree of slowdown between countries varies and depends on the severity of pand...

Global aviation has experienced many crises in the past, each of which has had a significant impact on air traffic. After each fall, the industry recovers and returns stronger, exceeding the previous volume of traffic; however, the COVID-19 pandemic presents a new level of concern, with unknown detrimental effects. The airlines, airports and all ot...

The diffusion of innovations during the fourth industrial revolution reshaped economic systems and caused structural changes in different economic sectors. These innovations have become the basis of the new digital infrastructure of society. Digital technology is used to manage integrated product whole-life cycles and enhance efficient, reliable, a...

Building on my 2019 editorial note from last year on managing nature 5.0 in the industrial revolution 4.0 and society 5.0 era, I would like to expand our discussion on how the concept can be a booster for the circular economy. Innovative digital technology supported by a human-centered society is required to balance our economic advancement and env...

Indonesia has more than seventeen thousand islands grouped into six corridors that span across the country. Considering the steady progress of economic development, evaluation to the national masterplan becomes critical in generating optimum industrial area mapping. The aim of this research is to investigate industrial development by taking into ac...

Malaysia has advance on numerous major infrastructure projects which aims at enhancing infrastructure connectivity and boosting investment among countries. Meanwhile, megaprojects are a completely different class of project requires different interpretation and management of risks, extremely complex and costly infrastructure project, had massive im...

The purpose of this work is to develop a methodology to assess and monitor cluster structures. The authors’ proposed method assesses the level of cluster structure development by considering cluster transformation analysis in the information and communication sectors of the regional economy, prerequisites for cluster formation, and the current leve...

Urban transport investments have contributed to the exponential increase of value from land and properties around the built infrastructure. Although literature had shown evidence of value uplift from the residential property due to transit development, little is known about the impact on commercial property values. This paper aims to evaluate the i...

The aim of this research is to show how the process of data analysis can be automated through development of an information system. The information system can be used for the identification of economic clusters and analysis of the regional potential for economic growth. The authors used data on the Russian Arctic regions with extreme social, geogra...

The International Scientific Conference on Innovations in Digital Economy (SPBPU DE 2019) was held at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Russia, during October 24–25, 2019. SPBPU IDE 2019 brought together experts from academia and industry to uncover the challenges and solutions to ensure the digital transformation of economic s...

The increase in the number of train ridership in Jakarta induced the governmentin constructing more rail infrastructures for example Light Rail Transit as a new option.However, this project is not supported by sufficient funds. Therefor new funding sourcesare needed to include all process which comprises of development, operation, andmaintenance. L...

Over the years, dry port studies experience a growing interest from academics and researchers focusing on various contexts within a seaport studies and involving a range of methods for evaluation and adoption. Some scholars have attempted to evaluate research in dry port during the past decade, but research involving structured analysis and extensi...

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 to be a world health emergency in early 2020. Many governments quickly responded by strategizing their policies to support healthcare facilities, economic sectors, and social safety nets during the pandemic. Those various essential policies and programs must continue to be executed even after th...

Equipment and material non-compliance with the project requirements is one of the issues causing delay in large EPC projects as rework actions are inevitable. Detecting and controlling the potential risks at the procurement process of equipment and material can be done to anticipate this issue. This study aims to identify the major risks and recomm...

The processes of innovation diffusion during fourth industrial revolution reshape economic systems and cause structural changes in different economic sectors and spheres. These innovations have become the basis of the new digital infrastructure of society. The conference SPBPU IDE-2020 will bring together experts from academia and industry to uncov...

The study objective is to evaluate schedule performance with the Internet of Thing platform in monitoring & controlling construction project. IoT is connecting physicals on the site with virtual things on the screen which enable the stakeholders to collaborate anywhere in real time. It used a qualitative method for coding, data visualization and fi...

Digitalization has proven to be important in shaping cities towards more effective and efficient in terms of planning, management, and development. Digitalization that is taking place extensively right now has revolutionized the business ecosystem and changed the value chain process in many industries. It offers various enthralling opportunities yi...

The effective infrastructure in the archipelago country to distribute goods is through port loading and unloading activities. One of port that will be the object of this research is Cigading Port in the Banten Province. Main activities of this port are handling dry bulk and liquid bulk cargoes. This port will expand in line with port’s vision and m...

Transit-oriented development (TOD) is based around transit stations, with the emphasis on high population density and multifunctional areas in promoting sustainable mobility. This study aimed to develop a TOD model that could achieve an optimum land use allocation to maximize transit ridership. A critical literature review, an analysis of value eng...

The outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19 is attacking societies in all regions. The speed and scale of the outbreak have been accelerating fatalities and causing social and economic disruption. We need coordinated and comprehensive actions on the national and international level in creating a shared responsibility and human solidarity to suppress the...

Indonesia aims to catapult its trade and industry development and become one of the economic powerhouses in the future. The strategies initially developed in 2011 were expected to increase economic activities and growth. However, due to the steady growth of economic development, an evaluation of the previous master plan is proposed. The purpose of...

Indonesia as a maritime country has the potential to become one of the main global players in logistic distribution. However, the limited port in the country that exist capable to tackle number of cargo handling particularly in the western part of the nation. One of the problems is production center often located far from the distribution center wh...

A low number in green building development cause the building construction will have an immense direct and indirect impact on future generations. This paper identified the optimum incentive model driving the building efficiency achievement in green building operation and maintenance. Critical factors that influence building consultant and contracto...