Concrete mansory unit: characteristic, method, advantages and disadvantages installation / Nur Haziqah Izzati Khairilanuar

Concrete masonry units (CMU) is one of the most common construction material used in the housing development industry in Malaysia and has been utilized throughout the world of exterior walls of conventional structures. This report was carried on for 35 acres of 35 blocks for 500 units 20'x60' Single Storey House, Community Hall and Kindergarten owned by Kementerian Kesejahteraan Bandar, Perumahan dan Kerajaan Tempatan (KPKT). This project has divided in some batches which each batch is doing the same method but in different time and location. Not same as other usual housing construction, this project started with the use of buoyant system which involved bamboo for the base and Raft Foundation as their platform. It is green and sustainable system of construction which has designed to solve a critical contemporary engineering problem of supporting heavy construction safely without any settlements in due course.