Sustainable Construction Method: Key Issues of BIM Implementation and IBS Management in Malaysia

Ng, Jia Jian (2020) Sustainable Construction Method: Key Issues of BIM Implementation and IBS Management in Malaysia. Final Year Project (Bachelor), Tunku Abdul Rahman University College.

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Abstract

The traditional construction methods currently used rarely take into account environmental impacts. The industry should change this method to a new method, with environmental issues as its main objective. Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Industrialised. This new method that concern about environmental impacts is called sustainable construction method. Among these sustainable methods, Building System (IBS) have become the latest trend of modernization in global construction industry. There are many countries started to use these methods. This is because it brings many benefits to them such as save the project time, fast communication between stakeholder, reduce construction waste and others. However, BIM and IBS have not been effectively implemented in Malaysia construction industry. Despite the government's aggressive promotion of BIM and IBS through the Construction Industry Transformation Programme (CITP) 2016-2020, there has been no significant improvement in BIM and IBS implementations in the industry. There are a lot of issues in implementing BIM and IBS management. Most of these issues are usually under five categories which are cost and finance, skill and knowledge, market readiness, negative perception and government issues. The purpose of this research is to identify the key issues of BIM implementation and IBS management in Malaysia construction industry. Besides, this research is also used to verify the best way to overcome these issues. The ways provided are education and training, increase IBS product range and manufacturer / supplier, enhance standardization on regulation and components, incentive from government and restrict labor import. In order to find out these purposes, the quantitative approach was used. The research is done through literature review from varies sources of data such as TARUC library, database, published report, master and PHD thesis and others. Moreover, the questionnaire survey is also been conducted in order to collect the opinion of industry player in Malaysia. There are total 222 sets of questionnaires were collected out of 361 sets of distributed questionnaires. Throughout the research, the main issue for both BIM implementation and IBS management are the readiness of the market. Most of the respondents agree that the construction industry in Malaysia is no ready yet to accept BIM and IBS. According to this research, the best way to resolve the problem is education and training. The core of this research is to remind the Malaysia construction industry player the issues in implementing BIM and managing IBS and recommend them the solution. This will help the industry to move further.