The Malaysian construction industry

This paper therefore explores the risks associated with IBS uptake, the payment issues surrounding its projects in Malaysia, the way forward and to propose other payment method that suits Malaysia. Besides performing extensive literature reviews, expert opinion was also obtained by interviewing four (4) Malaysian construction industry practitioners from different supply chains of an IBS project with each of them possessing a minimum of 25 years of working experience.

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Construction industry of Malaysia is a complex and confronts with serious issues of cost overrun. Construction supply chain which involves multi-layered supply network carries lot of potential for conflict and additional costs involving additional transaction cost. To tackle this issue, the primary aim of this study is to identify component of waste in transaction cost within multi-layered supply chain network in Malaysian construction industry. The qualitative research approach is adopted to achieve the research objectives of this study.

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In this studies, quantitative approach method was conducted to gather data in the study to measure the descriptive statistics of all the constructs been measured in the survey. This paper will first discuss the literature review covering four areas that are important in this study. This will be followed by finding, recommendations as well as the conclusion of the studies.

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Over the decade, the level of risk management has always been lingering in every construction industry sectors. Therefore, this research deeply investigated the level of risk management among Kuantan Malaysian construction industries to better promote effectiveness on risk management implementation within the industry. To address this issues, this study makes use of statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS) approach to validate construction risk management (CRM) as a construct from registered Grade-7 contractors operating in Malaysia point of view.

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The research is prepared to study the contractors understanding and readiness of additive manufacturing within the scope of a Malaysian state’s construction industry, Penang. Literature reviews have been conducted to understand about the additive manufacturing technology, its impact and future prospect in construction industry and further produced a set of survey questions, distributed to contractors and analyzed using mean score.

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This paper aims to determine the extent of construction risk management among the Malaysian construction companies and to rank the specific factors affecting contractors’ risk attitudes among the Malaysian construction companies. Simple random under probability sampling techniques were used.

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Some studies have determined the impact of financial factors on the failure of firms; such as bad financial management and lack of capital which are the main determinants of failure. The construction industry is generally also facing these problems to some extent. Where the Malaysian scene is concerned, the failure rate of construction companies is quite high. This study examines the debt and equity structure for the construction companies listed in the Bursa Malaysia market during a seven-year period from 2001 to 2007.

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This study identified 10 most important causes of delay from a list of 28 different causes and 6 different effects of delay. Ten most important causes were: (1) contractor’s improper planning, (2) contractor’s poor site management, (3) inadequate contractor experience, (4) inadequate client’s finance and payments for completed work, (5) problems with subcontractors, (6) shortage in material, (7) labor supply, (8) equipment availability and failure, (9) lack of communication between parties, and (10) mistakes during the construction stage.

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