Advanced industrialised building system (IBS) initiative model

One of the challenges facing our construction industry is the acute shortage of construction workers in conjunction of a crackdown on illegal immigrants which began on March 1^st 2005. As such, the industrialised building system (IBS) has been introduced and supported by the Malaysian Government towards less labour dependency and better quality of construction techniques since early 2000. Even so, the use of IBS in construction projects are still underutilized, this is confirmed by low percentage of IBS based projects. Thus, this research will be conducted to analyse fundamental problems in the implementation of IBS concept and to propose IBS initiative model. The review of the literature will be conducted to gather information on the current development of IBS in Malaysia and the predicament on the IBS initiative taken by the Government, along with the CIDB Malaysia earlier. This research will adopt mixed mode of quantitative and qualitative research design. A cross sectional online survey will be conducted to assess the current scenario on IBS in Malaysia. Furthermore, a qualitative study will be perform to identify the fundamental problems on the current IBS initiatives taken by the Government and CIDB Malaysia. At the end of the research, an IBS initiative model will be proposed by contextualizing quantitative and qualitative data.