The impacts of the lack of knowledge in Industrialised Building System (IBS) by the contractors in Malaysia

Industrialized Building System (IBS) is the term used to describe prefabrication building for Malaysia. IBS gives many advantages compared to conventional construction methods. However, the barriers to the adoption of IBS had involved for many years. One of the barriers is a lack of knowledge in IBS projects. Several factors would impact them on IBS projects. Due to this scenario, this dissertation mainly aimed to identify the impacts of lack of knowledge in IBS by the contractors towards the IBS construction projects. Its objective is to identify the factors that influence the lack of knowledge in IBS by contractors, determine the impacts towards contractors' lack knowledge in IBS and develop solutions to reduce the lack of knowledge in IBS by contractors. 120 questionnaires were distributed to contractor Grade 7 that registered under CIDB to collect the primary data and be analysed by using SPSS version 28.0. The result of findings would be present in frequency analysis and mean analysis. It would be in the form of tables. The research objectives had achieved the purpose of this research which are the factors that contribute to lack of knowledge in IBS project by contractors, the impacts towards the contractors, and the solution that can reduce it.