Fara Diva Mustapa

Fara Diva Mustapa is registered a Consultant Quantity Surveyor (CQS) with the Board of Quantity Surveyors, Malaysia (BQSM) and a Fellow member of the Royal Institution of Surveyors Malaysia (RISM) and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). She attained her first degree in quantity surveying from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in 2002, and received the Lawrence Chin Memorial award from the Royal Institution of Surveying Malaysia (then known as Institution of Surveyors) Malaysia (ISM) in 2002 for her outstanding academic performance in quantity surveying studies. She joined the Malaysian construction industry as a quantity surveyor, managing a design and build project worth RM11.5 million. She pursued her Master degree in Construction Economics and Management with Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL) (UK) in 2004 after receiving a scholarship. She pursued her PhD at Loughborough University, UK, and attained her PhD, specialising in labour economics, in 2014. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at Department of Quantity Surveying, Faculty of Built Environment, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, where she teaches construction economics-related courses. She is the chairwoman of Royal Institution of Surveyors. Johor branch, session 2021/22 and also an Advisory Panel for Quantity Surveying programme at SEGi University, Kota Damansara and a trainee for BQSM Quantity Surveying Accreditation Council (QSAC). She is also active in research and publications where she won Gold Medal award in IRIISE 2018 and NALI 2018 for her on-going research’s outcomes. Currently she have several on-going research grants from MOHE FRGS (worth RM75K) and NAPREC (RM125k) and recently completed her industry grant with TNB on cost benefit analysis for their sub-stations (worth RM150K).

Publications

Research Methodology for Cost Modelling Development on Smart Living Features Implementation in Malaysian Housing
Research Methodology for Cost Modelling Development on Smart Living Features Implementation in Malaysian Housing
Koh Fung Chieng, Fara Diva Mustapa. © 2024. 24 pages.
The development of smart living housing in Malaysia, despite its 'people-centric' concept that focuses on resident well-being, faces implementation challenges. Notably...