The Understanding Among Contractors In Additive Manufacturing Technology In Local Construction Industry
Abstract
Additive manufacturing is one of the key elements in industrial revolution 4.0, new to construction industry and have potential to enormously impact the industry due to its ability to disrupt the existing construction supply chain direction and order. The construction players especially the contractors are expected to be the first entity to experience the effect and widely use the technology but up to this stage, the contractors’ understanding towards the technology are unknown. At the same time, the Malaysian construction industry suffer lack of responsive towards technology that might one day be left behind if it unable to adopt to the new technology. Therefore, the study is conducted to identify the understanding of local contractors about additive manufacturing in construction industry. The findings can be used to further plan how to overcome challenges in industrial revolution 4.0 environment. A quantitative approach through survey has been engaged and distributed randomly to contractors via emails and by hand. Besides, literature reviews have been conducted to deeply understand the concept of additive manufacturing, its impact and implication as well as the future prospect. The result is analysed based on mean score and able to identify that the contractor does not has the understanding in additive manufacturing technology in local construction industry.
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26 December 2017
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978-1-80296-950-4
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Future Academy
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2
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1st Edition
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1-882
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Technology, smart cities, digital construction, industrial revolution 4.0, wellbeing & social resilience, economic resilience, environmental resilience
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Ismail, M. Z., & Rashid*, Z. Z. A. (2017). The Understanding Among Contractors In Additive Manufacturing Technology In Local Construction Industry. In P. A. J. Wahid, P. I. D. A. Aziz Abdul Samad, P. D. S. Sheikh Ahmad, & A. P. D. P. Pujinda (Eds.), Carving The Future Built Environment: Environmental, Economic And Social Resilience, vol 2. European Proceedings of Multidisciplinary Sciences (pp. 865-875). Future Academy. https://doi.org/10.15405/epms.2019.12.88