Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic in the Malaysian Construction Industry

Teo, Shek Ven (2023) Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic in the Malaysian Construction Industry. Final Year Project (Bachelor), Tunku Abdul Rahman University College.

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Abstract

At the end of 2019, Covid-19 has become a trended and heated topic worldwide, including in Malaysia. People did not realize that this pandemic would bring so many impacts on their basic livelihood, healthy, business, jobs, income and so on in the first place. But with the passage of time, people then only know that Covid-19 is a serious pandemic which will bring a lot of impacts on their life. This Covid-19 pandemic makes a mess for the people surrounding the world including losing their families member due to the confirmed case of Coronavirus, no monthly income to survive their life and so on. The impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic have not excluded the construction industry as well. It has made a lot of construction parties like workers and company as well facing the serious impacts brought by the pandemic. Hence, there are several objectives to investigate the impacts brought by the Covid-19 pandemic on the Malaysian construction industry. There is total 70 number of respondents have been targeted to answer the questionnaires by using Google Forms for providing their views and perception on the strategies that mitigate and manage the spread of Covid-19 and the effectiveness of the SOP implemented by the Malaysian Government. The collected questionnaire will therefore use some research method such as reliability test to know the reliability of the questionnaire, descriptive analysis and independent sample t-test as well to conduct data analysis for getting results at the end. Several findings of the study indicated that the majority of respondents strongly agreed that the SOPs implemented by the government were sufficiently effective in mitigating and managing the spread of Covid-19. The results of this study show that it is important to be aware of the impact of Covid-19 in order for people to recognize and take action to minimize the impact and learn to coexist with Covid-19. More than that, people will be aware of the importance of SOPs to ensure that the spread of Covid-19 is mitigated and controlled. This will also show the effectiveness of SOPs, which will lead people to follow and obey company and government instructions