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CHALLENGES FOR DEVELOPERS IMPLEMENTING IBS IN MALAYSIAN HOUSING PROJECTS

Housing projects has become one of the contributors to Malaysian construction industry and there is always significant demand for housing as Malaysian economic has spurs positively. However, reports from National Housing Policy (2012) has revealed that current housing projects must transform from is...

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Main Authors:	Ahmad, Abd Jalil, Azlan Raofuddin, Nuruddin, Mastura, Jaafar, Md Azree, Othuman Mydin
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia 2016
Subjects:	H Social Sciences (General) T Technology (General) TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TH Building construction
Online Access:	http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/37926/1/housing1.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/37926/ http://eprints.usm.my/30177/
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spelling	my.unimas.ir.379262022-03-01T06:06:34Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/37926/ CHALLENGES FOR DEVELOPERS IMPLEMENTING IBS IN MALAYSIAN HOUSING PROJECTS Ahmad, Abd Jalil Azlan Raofuddin, Nuruddin Mastura, Jaafar Md Azree, Othuman Mydin H Social Sciences (General) T Technology (General) TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TH Building construction Housing projects has become one of the contributors to Malaysian construction industry and there is always significant demand for housing as Malaysian economic has spurs positively. However, reports from National Housing Policy (2012) has revealed that current housing projects must transform from issues of low quality, delay, lack of skilled labour and slow adaptation of technology. Therefore the government has enforced prefabrication concept to be implemented in Malaysian housing sector to overcome these issues. Housing should be the sector that most suitable implementing IBS due to its construction nature where repetitious drawings and similar layout and specification are used for every unit. Recent study shows that IBS adoption in housing projects still behind the target. There are many challenges that discourage housing developers to adopt this prefabrication technology. This paper aims to discuss the challenges that housing developer encounter which discourage them from implementing IBS and at the end of this paper, some suggestions to overcome the challenges are proposed. This paper is based on previous research, journals and government reports as evidence. It can be concluded that Malaysian housing market still facing many barriers on IBS and needs a radical transformation that requires much more effort particularly on procurement system, supply chain and skill workers. In order to sustain the IBS usage, all parties must put great attention where this technology becomes priority, and not only as an alternative method. Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia 2016 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/37926/1/housing1.pdf Ahmad, Abd Jalil and Azlan Raofuddin, Nuruddin and Mastura, Jaafar and Md Azree, Othuman Mydin (2016) CHALLENGES FOR DEVELOPERS IMPLEMENTING IBS IN MALAYSIAN HOUSING PROJECTS. Journal of Construction in Developing Countries, 2 (3). pp. 1-10. ISSN 1823-6499 http://eprints.usm.my/30177/
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topic	H Social Sciences (General) T Technology (General) TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TH Building construction
spellingShingle	H Social Sciences (General) T Technology (General) TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TH Building construction Ahmad, Abd Jalil Azlan Raofuddin, Nuruddin Mastura, Jaafar Md Azree, Othuman Mydin CHALLENGES FOR DEVELOPERS IMPLEMENTING IBS IN MALAYSIAN HOUSING PROJECTS
description	Housing projects has become one of the contributors to Malaysian construction industry and there is always significant demand for housing as Malaysian economic has spurs positively. However, reports from National Housing Policy (2012) has revealed that current housing projects must transform from issues of low quality, delay, lack of skilled labour and slow adaptation of technology. Therefore the government has enforced prefabrication concept to be implemented in Malaysian housing sector to overcome these issues. Housing should be the sector that most suitable implementing IBS due to its construction nature where repetitious drawings and similar layout and specification are used for every unit. Recent study shows that IBS adoption in housing projects still behind the target. There are many challenges that discourage housing developers to adopt this prefabrication technology. This paper aims to discuss the challenges that housing developer encounter which discourage them from implementing IBS and at the end of this paper, some suggestions to overcome the challenges are proposed. This paper is based on previous research, journals and government reports as evidence. It can be concluded that Malaysian housing market still facing many barriers on IBS and needs a radical transformation that requires much more effort particularly on procurement system, supply chain and skill workers. In order to sustain the IBS usage, all parties must put great attention where this technology becomes priority, and not only as an alternative method.
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author	Ahmad, Abd Jalil Azlan Raofuddin, Nuruddin Mastura, Jaafar Md Azree, Othuman Mydin
author_facet	Ahmad, Abd Jalil Azlan Raofuddin, Nuruddin Mastura, Jaafar Md Azree, Othuman Mydin
author_sort	Ahmad, Abd Jalil
title	CHALLENGES FOR DEVELOPERS IMPLEMENTING IBS IN MALAYSIAN HOUSING PROJECTS
title_short	CHALLENGES FOR DEVELOPERS IMPLEMENTING IBS IN MALAYSIAN HOUSING PROJECTS
title_full	CHALLENGES FOR DEVELOPERS IMPLEMENTING IBS IN MALAYSIAN HOUSING PROJECTS
title_fullStr	CHALLENGES FOR DEVELOPERS IMPLEMENTING IBS IN MALAYSIAN HOUSING PROJECTS
title_full_unstemmed	CHALLENGES FOR DEVELOPERS IMPLEMENTING IBS IN MALAYSIAN HOUSING PROJECTS
title_sort	challenges for developers implementing ibs in malaysian housing projects
publisher	Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia
publishDate	2016
url	http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/37926/1/housing1.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/37926/ http://eprints.usm.my/30177/
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CHALLENGES FOR DEVELOPERS IMPLEMENTING IBS IN MALAYSIAN HOUSING PROJECTS

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