The Industrialized Building System (IBS) Survey Report 2008--Educating the Malaysian Construction Industry

Abstract

The IBS Survey report 2008 continues a practice that began in 2003. The first report was published in 2003 followed by in 2005 and recently in 2008. It records recent trends in selected areas that reflect the Malaysia's achievement of IBS usage in the building construction industry. Due to dynamic economic and technological changes, IBS usage reports have been increasingly important. The design of quantitative survey in IBS acceptance questionnaire design is based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and verified the reliability of questionnaire design by alpha-Cronbach. The result of alpha-Cronbach on IBS acceptance questionnaire is 0.787 which is round out to 0.8. The re-arrangements of items in the questionnaire design and the validity of the questionnaire has been checked and found to be valid. The awareness of using IBS in the construction industry in Malaysia has been successfully measured based on the IBS actual use, perceived ease of IBS use and perceived IBS usefulness with a scoring of alpha-Cronbach 0.861, 0.744 and 0.853 respectively.