Status of Industrialized Building System Manufacturing Plant in Malaysia

Authors

  • Mohamed Nor Azhari Azman
  • Mohd Sanusi S. Ahamad
  • Taksiah A.Majid
  • Mohd Hanizun Hanafi

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33736/jcest.89.2011

Abstract

 

The trend construction industry have move from project based to product based in term of long term investment. Industrialized building system (IBS) in Malaysia is defined as a construction system where components are manufactured at factories on or off site, transported and then assembled into a structure with minimum work. IBS also is known as off-site construction or prefabrication. Thus, IBS have the similarity drive and challenge with the United States (US), United Kingdom (UK) and Australia; and among the factors are skilled craft worker, fast track completion, cost and transportation. United States, United Kingdom and Australia have achieved modular building standard while Malaysia still in the hybridization stage. The Malaysian government and researcher have promoted the modern method construction industry to break the ‘traditional technology’. Anecdotally, the total number of IBS manufacturing plant has increased from 21 in 2002 to 143 factories in 2010. From the evolution of the IBS manufacturing component, the most favorable system used in the IBS component is the precast concrete system and followed by the steel framing system.

References

Y. F. Badir, et al., "Industrialized Building Systems Construction in Malaysia," Journal of Architectural Engineering, vol. 8, pp. 19-23, 2002.

https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)1076-0431(2002)8:1(19)

A.-R. Abdul-Aziz, "Global strategies: a comparison between Japanese and American construction firms," Construction Management and Economics, vol. 12, pp. 473 - 484, 1994.

https://doi.org/10.1080/01446199400000059

D. M. Gann, "Construction as a manufacturing process? Similarities and differences between industrialized housing and car production in Japan," Construction Management and Economics, vol. 14, pp. 437 - 450, 1996.

https://doi.org/10.1080/014461996373304

R.-B. Richard, "Industrialised building systems: reproduction before automation and robotics," Automation in Construction, vol. 14, pp. 442-451, 2005.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2004.09.009

CII, "Constructability Implementation Guide," Construction Industry Institute, Austin1986.

M. A. Nima, et al., "Constructability implementation: a survey in the Malaysian construction industry,"Construction Management and Economics, vol. 19, pp. 819 - 829, 2001.

https://doi.org/10.1080/01446190110089709

B. Trigunarsyah, "A review of current practice in constructability improvement: case studies on construction projects in Indonesia," Construction Management and Economics, vol. 22, pp. 567 - 580, 2004.

https://doi.org/10.1080/0144619042000202870

F. W. H. Wong, et al., "A study of measures to improve constructability.," International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management, vol. 24, pp. 586-601, 2007.

https://doi.org/10.1108/02656710710757781

J. P. Womack, et al., The Machine that Changed the World. New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1990.

M. Taylor, et al., "Automated Construction in Japan," Proceeding of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Civil Engineering, vol. 156, pp. 34-41, 2003.

https://doi.org/10.1680/cien.2003.156.1.34

A. C. Webster, "Japanese Building Design and Construction Technologies," Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, vol. 119, pp. 358-377, 1993.

https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)1052-3928(1993)119:4(358)

C. B. Tatum, "Constructability improvement using pre-fabrication, pre-assembly and modularization," Stanford University, California, US1986.

C. Goodier and A. Gibb, "Future opportunities for offsite in the UK," Construction Management and Economics, vol. 25, pp. 585 - 595, 2007.

https://doi.org/10.1080/01446190601071821

N. Lu, "The Current Use of Offsite Construction Techniques in the United States Construction Industry," Seattle, Washington, 2009, pp. 96-96.

https://doi.org/10.1061/41020(339)96

BURA, "Steering and Development Forum Report: MMC Evolution or Revolution," British Urban Regeneration Association (BURA), London, United Kingdom2005.

C. Goodier and A. Gibb, "Barriers and Opportunities for Offsite Production (OSP)," Loughborough University, Loughborough2004.

C. Goodier and A. Gibb, "Buildoffsite," 2005.

K. Hampson and P. Brandon, "Construction 2020: A vision for Australia's Property and Construction Industry," Cooperative Research Centre for Construction Innovation for Icon.Net Pty Ltd, Brisbane2004.

K. A. M. Kamar, et al., "Industrialized building system (IBS): revisiting the issues on definition, classification and the degree of industrialization," presented at the CIRAIC, 2009.

CIDB, Industrialized Building System (IBS) Roadmap 2003-2010: Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB), Kuala Lumpur, 2003.

A. G. F. Gibb and F. Isack, "Re-engineering through pre-assembly: client expectations and drivers," Building Research & Information, vol. 31, pp. 146-160, 2003.

https://doi.org/10.1080/09613210302000

CMAA, "FMI/CMAA Tenth annual survey of owner," 2010.

CMAA, "FMI/CMAA Sixth annual survey of owner," 2006.

N. Blismas and R. Wakefield, "Drivers, constraints and the future of offsite manufacture in Australia," Construction Innovation, vol. 9, pp. 72-83, 2008.

https://doi.org/10.1108/14714170910931552

W. Nadim and J. S. Goulding, "Offsite production in the UK: the way forward? A UK construction industry perpective," Construction Innovation, vol. 10, pp. 181-202, 2009.

https://doi.org/10.1108/14714171011037183

W. Pan, et al., "Perspectives of UK housebuilders on the use of offsite modern methods of construction,"Construction Management and Economics, vol. 25, pp. 183 - 194, 2007.

https://doi.org/10.1080/01446190600827058

M. N. A. Azman, et al., "Perspective of Malaysian Industrialised Building System on the Modern Method of Construction," in The 11th Asia Pacific Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Conference, Malacca, Malaysia, 2010.

M. R. A. Kadir, et al., "Construction performance comparison between conventional and industrialized building systems in Malaysia," Structural Survey, vol. 24, pp. 414-424, 2005.

https://doi.org/10.1108/02630800610712004

IBS, "IBS Survey 2008," Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB)2008.

D. N. Trikha and A. A. A. Ali, Industrialized Building Systems: Universiti Putra Malaysia Press Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB), 2004.

ManuBuild, "Open Building Manufacturing: Core Concepts and Industrial Requirements," A. S. Kazi, et al., Eds., ed Finland: ManuBuild VTT-Technical Research Centre of Finland, 2007.

M. Edge, et al., "Overcoming Client and Market Resistance to Prefabrication and Standardization in Housing Robert Gordon University " 2002.

B. Roskrow, Design and Deliver: Housebuilder, 2004.

M. o. H. a. L. Government, "Housing Strategies and Programmes in Malaysia. Report," National Housing Department., Research and Development Division, Malaysia1997.

W. Alaghbari, et al., "The significant factors causing delay of building construction projects in Malaysia,"Engineering Construction and Architectural Management, vol. 14, pp. 192-206, 2007.

https://doi.org/10.1108/09699980710731308

C. S. Lim and M. Z. Mohamed, "An exploratory study into recurring construction problems," Int J Project Management, vol. 18, pp. 267-273, 2000.

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0263-7863(99)00016-2

Lembaga Pembangunan Industri Pembinaan Malaysia, L. o. Malaysia ACT 520, 1994.

Z. Abd. Hamid, et al., "Industrialized Building Systems (IBS) in Malaysia: The Current State and R&D Iniatives,"Malaysia Construction Research Journal, vol. 2, pp. 1-13, 2008.

CIDB, "Industrialized Building Systems in Malaysia," Construction Technology Development Division, Kuala Lumpur2006.

Treasury, "Application Industrialized Building System (IBS) in Government Project," M. o. Finance, Ed., ed, 2008.

IBS, Construction Industry Development Board2010.

N. Blismas, et al., "Benefit evaluation for off-site production in construction," Construction Management and Economics, vol. 24, pp. 121 - 130, 2006.

https://doi.org/10.1080/01446190500184444

Downloads

Published

2011-12-01

How to Cite

Azman, M. N. A., S. Ahamad, M. S., A.Majid, T., & Hanafi, M. H. (2011). Status of Industrialized Building System Manufacturing Plant in Malaysia. Journal of Civil Engineering, Science and Technology, 2(2), 8–16. https://doi.org/10.33736/jcest.89.2011

Issue

Section

Articles