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Environmental awareness and benefits of industrialized building systems (IBS)

A comparative study was conducted between IBS construction and conventional wet construction to compare performances in terms of time, cost, quality and utilization of manpower. Four low-rise building projects which adopted IBS and conventional methods of construction were selected for case studies....

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Main Authors: Ahmad Bari, Nor Azmi, Abdullah, Nor Ainah, Yusuff, Rosnah, Ismail, Napsiah, Jaapar, Aini
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2012
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/48154/1/48154.pdf
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042812031825
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spelling my.upm.eprints.481542016-09-14T02:44:58Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/48154/ Environmental awareness and benefits of industrialized building systems (IBS) Ahmad Bari, Nor Azmi Abdullah, Nor Ainah Yusuff, Rosnah Ismail, Napsiah Jaapar, Aini A comparative study was conducted between IBS construction and conventional wet construction to compare performances in terms of time, cost, quality and utilization of manpower. Four low-rise building projects which adopted IBS and conventional methods of construction were selected for case studies. The findings suggest that construction using inter-locking blocks and prefabricated systems can reduce the overall cost, time, manpower and produces better quality housing than the conventional method. Environmentally, IBS also facilitates waste minimization and reduction, thus further highlighting its positive economics, while reductions in overall manpower requirements may also bring about less dependency on foreign labour. Elsevier 2012 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/48154/1/48154.pdf Ahmad Bari, Nor Azmi and Abdullah, Nor Ainah and Yusuff, Rosnah and Ismail, Napsiah and Jaapar, Aini (2012) Environmental awareness and benefits of industrialized building systems (IBS). Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 50. pp. 392-404. ISSN 1877-0428 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042812031825 10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.08.044
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description A comparative study was conducted between IBS construction and conventional wet construction to compare performances in terms of time, cost, quality and utilization of manpower. Four low-rise building projects which adopted IBS and conventional methods of construction were selected for case studies. The findings suggest that construction using inter-locking blocks and prefabricated systems can reduce the overall cost, time, manpower and produces better quality housing than the conventional method. Environmentally, IBS also facilitates waste minimization and reduction, thus further highlighting its positive economics, while reductions in overall manpower requirements may also bring about less dependency on foreign labour.
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author Ahmad Bari, Nor Azmi
Abdullah, Nor Ainah
Yusuff, Rosnah
Ismail, Napsiah
Jaapar, Aini
spellingShingle Ahmad Bari, Nor Azmi
Abdullah, Nor Ainah
Yusuff, Rosnah
Ismail, Napsiah
Jaapar, Aini
Environmental awareness and benefits of industrialized building systems (IBS)
author_facet Ahmad Bari, Nor Azmi
Abdullah, Nor Ainah
Yusuff, Rosnah
Ismail, Napsiah
Jaapar, Aini
author_sort Ahmad Bari, Nor Azmi
title Environmental awareness and benefits of industrialized building systems (IBS)
title_short Environmental awareness and benefits of industrialized building systems (IBS)
title_full Environmental awareness and benefits of industrialized building systems (IBS)
title_fullStr Environmental awareness and benefits of industrialized building systems (IBS)
title_full_unstemmed Environmental awareness and benefits of industrialized building systems (IBS)
title_sort environmental awareness and benefits of industrialized building systems (ibs)
publisher Elsevier
publishDate 2012
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/48154/1/48154.pdf
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/48154/
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042812031825
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