Overview - MPC

2009
Productivity Inititatives in the
Construction Sector
• In its quest towards reducing the
dependency on foreign workers for
the construction, the Government will
continue with its effort to propagate the
industry to move towards Industrialised
Building System (IBS) implementation.
Such system is capable of improving
on-site productivity in terms of cost
savings of up to 20% for some of the
high-rise projects or even possible to
reduce project completion time by as
much as 30%.
• To assist retrenched workers and the
unemployed graduates, a total of 59
Construction Industry Development
Board (CIDB) Accreditate Training
Centres have been established
nationwide offering a total of 49
construction training trade modules
such as skill training programmes that
are divided into two categories namely,
Youth Skill Training which is designed
to produce more local skill personnel
catering for youth age between 16
to 31. Over the past decade, about
65,000 youth had been trained under
this programme. The second category
is Construction Personnel Skill Training
which is open to existing construction
personnel. The objective is to provide
an avenue for them to acquire multiple
construction skills. To date, about
55,000 construction personnel had
pursued such training programme.
• To mitigate the impact of global
warming, all building design and
development should focus more
towards green technology. This leads
to the development of Green Building
Index (GBI) which allows for easy
public evaluation of what are real green
buildings. It also serves as key design
principles for architects and engineers
to design green buildings as well as
to set benchmarks for Total Building
Performance. Some of the economic
benefits associated with green building
are saving in energy and materials
usage while maintaining good indoor
air quality.
• It is also imperative to have an integrate
quality system incorporating both
ISO System and Quality Assessment
System in Construction (QLASSIC)
as part of the business transformation
process at the industry level. Such
integration of both quality management
system and construction quality is to
improve the QLASSIC score for the
construction sector.
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