The Common Approach in Off-Site Construction Industry

The construction industry have made the appropriate initiative to make a paradigm shift in the manufacturing construction industry in order to achieve a higher standard and to adapt to the global business trend. The government and researchers have played vital roles to educate the main players of the construction industry in the form of policies, financial incentives, strategy guidelines, workshops and seminars to increase the awareness among the end users and clients. This paper present the challenges faced by the construction industry to integrate the modern method with the existing traditional method, and to make a comparative study in the approaches used in off-site construction industry. The four countries involved in the studies are US, UK, Australia and Malaysia. The off-site manufacturing in the U.S. was started by Henry Ford. It was a big evolution that became a phenomena and spread to the rest of the world. UK and Australia have the similarity in terms of the approach towards research and categorization of off-site system. Malaysia adapted the advanced approach practiced by other countries. The research finds that the pattern of off-site construction industry will benefit both the government and the private sector in fulfilling the demand for off-site system in the long term with the expansion of the construction industry and its ability to compete globally