A study on the acceptance level of rack housing in Malaysia

Rack housing is one type of modular construction system which is flexible and poses a higher degree of mobility. However, the idea of rack housing is relatively new and there is no clear indication of how far is the acceptance of Malaysian citizen to this idea. Therefore, this study aims to identif...

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Main Authors: Ho, C. M., Tan, Q. N., Doh, S. I., Omar, J., Mohammed Al-Btoush, K. A.
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Online Access:http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/28381/1/A%20study%20on%20the%20acceptance%20level%20of%20rack%20housing.pdf
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https://doi.org/10.15282/construction.v1i2.6550
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spelling my.ump.umpir.283812022-02-07T01:53:49Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/28381/ A study on the acceptance level of rack housing in Malaysia Ho, C. M. Tan, Q. N. Doh, S. I. Omar, J. Mohammed Al-Btoush, K. A. TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TH Building construction Rack housing is one type of modular construction system which is flexible and poses a higher degree of mobility. However, the idea of rack housing is relatively new and there is no clear indication of how far is the acceptance of Malaysian citizen to this idea. Therefore, this study aims to identify the acceptance level of Malaysian towards rack housing and also serve as the basic reference for both government and private sector for the adoption fo rack house in Malaysia. In this study, the acceptance level among Malaysian factors of consumer decision to purchase rack housing and also the perspective of Malaysian especially middle income group is determined. A set of questionnaire was made by Google form which contain question about the major factor of acceptance of Malaysian citizen on rack housing with total of 208 questionnaires. The data collected from different group of Malaysian was analyzed by using Average Index (AI). The degree of importance was determined by the rating scales. The result obtained is that the acceptance level to purchase rack housing based on location, comfortability and management factors. From the result, the respondances agree to accept rack housing to implement and construct in Malaysia. Penerbit UMP 2021-10-06 Article PeerReviewed pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/28381/1/A%20study%20on%20the%20acceptance%20level%20of%20rack%20housing.pdf Ho, C. M. and Tan, Q. N. and Doh, S. I. and Omar, J. and Mohammed Al-Btoush, K. A. (2021) A study on the acceptance level of rack housing in Malaysia. Construction, 1 (2). pp. 1-8. ISSN 2785-8731 https://doi.org/10.15282/construction.v1i2.6550 https://doi.org/10.15282/construction.v1i2.6550
institution Universiti Malaysia Pahang
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country Malaysia
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language English
topic TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
TH Building construction
spellingShingle TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
TH Building construction
Ho, C. M.
Tan, Q. N.
Doh, S. I.
Omar, J.
Mohammed Al-Btoush, K. A.
A study on the acceptance level of rack housing in Malaysia
description Rack housing is one type of modular construction system which is flexible and poses a higher degree of mobility. However, the idea of rack housing is relatively new and there is no clear indication of how far is the acceptance of Malaysian citizen to this idea. Therefore, this study aims to identify the acceptance level of Malaysian towards rack housing and also serve as the basic reference for both government and private sector for the adoption fo rack house in Malaysia. In this study, the acceptance level among Malaysian factors of consumer decision to purchase rack housing and also the perspective of Malaysian especially middle income group is determined. A set of questionnaire was made by Google form which contain question about the major factor of acceptance of Malaysian citizen on rack housing with total of 208 questionnaires. The data collected from different group of Malaysian was analyzed by using Average Index (AI). The degree of importance was determined by the rating scales. The result obtained is that the acceptance level to purchase rack housing based on location, comfortability and management factors. From the result, the respondances agree to accept rack housing to implement and construct in Malaysia.
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author Ho, C. M.
Tan, Q. N.
Doh, S. I.
Omar, J.
Mohammed Al-Btoush, K. A.
author_facet Ho, C. M.
Tan, Q. N.
Doh, S. I.
Omar, J.
Mohammed Al-Btoush, K. A.
author_sort Ho, C. M.
title A study on the acceptance level of rack housing in Malaysia
title_short A study on the acceptance level of rack housing in Malaysia
title_full A study on the acceptance level of rack housing in Malaysia
title_fullStr A study on the acceptance level of rack housing in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed A study on the acceptance level of rack housing in Malaysia
title_sort study on the acceptance level of rack housing in malaysia
publisher Penerbit UMP
publishDate 2021
url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/28381/1/A%20study%20on%20the%20acceptance%20level%20of%20rack%20housing.pdf
http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/28381/
https://doi.org/10.15282/construction.v1i2.6550
https://doi.org/10.15282/construction.v1i2.6550
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