Acceptance of 3D Printing Technology or Additive Manufacturing (AM) in Malaysian Construction Industry

Yong, Chun Yi (2019) Acceptance of 3D Printing Technology or Additive Manufacturing (AM) in Malaysian Construction Industry. Final Year Project (Bachelor), Tunku Abdul Rahman University College.

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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine and review the obstacles of AM application in Malaysia Construction Industry. Besides, the main objective of this study is to investigate the acceptance of AM/3D printed of houses in Malaysia and to identify the technical risk in 3D-printed building structure concerned by the building professions in Malaysia. Furthermore, the problem is because of the housing price in Malaysia is dramatically increased. As we can see, nowadays Malaysian could not afford to purchase a house, the price of the house is the 5.5x multiple of the annual median income of Malaysian. Moreover, in this study, the scope of the study was focused on Malaysia construction Industry and the area will be targeting Kuala Lumpur and Selangor area. On the other hands, in this research, a total of 264 questionnaires were prepared and distributed to the target respondents. In order to analyse the data that obtained from the survey, Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) computer software program version 20 was used for data analysis. Besides, the majority of the respondents accept the 3D printing of houses in the Malaysian construction industry and denied the technical risks in AM/3D printing of the building structure. Finally, this study was concluded with the discussion and recommendation for future research were provided.