Implementation of qlassic as a tool of quality assessment in industrialised building system (IBS) projects
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2019-06
Authors
Vijeykumar Selokumar
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Abstract
Construction has been the major economic contributor for the growth of a
country‟s economy especially Malaysia. Malaysia‟s construction industry is currently
in innovation mode where prefabricated and modern methods of construction are being
implemented rapidly. Industrial building system (IBS) which has implemented is
supported by demands on the huge quantity of affordable and sustainable low-cost
housing for the rising middle class. Whenever there is a change in a large industry, it is
always difficult to control the quality standard and the implementation scale. QLASSIC
is a Quality Assessment System introduced by Construction Industry Development
Board (CIDB) of Malaysia to act as the benchmark for country‟s quality standard.
Therefore, the aim of the research is to find out the awareness and list of
technical and non-technical factors that influence the implementation of QLASSIC
quality assessment in IBS projects. Besides that, the study is also to compare the
importance of relevant criteria between the perception of construction stakeholders and
QLASSIC system in the scoring of QLASSIC in IBS projects. Usually, the usage of
QLASSIC in IBS among government projects is much higher compared to private and
the scoring is only at satisfactory range. This shows the parties involved did not know
clearly the aim of QLASSIC usage. Questionnaire Survey Method was used in this
study. The surveyed data from 42 respondents was obtained. In conclusion, the related
parties realize that the QLASSIC assessment in IBS is not sufficient as exposure to the
influence issues are not enough and the importance given to relevant IBS components
is not accurate compared to QLASSIC manual. Outcomes of this research involve
factors that influence QLASSIC application in hierarchical order and the percentage of
importance given to IBS components in terms of QLASSIC scoring by respondents
compared to the manual.