Introduction to IBS(Vilasha)

The concept of mass production of quality building is termed as “Industrialised building system

 (IBS)”.Among the benefits of using IBS are: speed, quality and economics, all of which are

required so as to meet the large demand for housing. In order to develop techniques for mass produced houses, M

alaysia needs to access itself to the world’s most modern building system,

 building materials and housing products (Waleed et. al., 2003).The IBS, which enables on-site prefabricated or pre-cast building componentsmanufactured at factories, will enable cost saving and quality improvement through thereduction of labour intensity and construction standardization. Apart from this, it offers minimalwastage, less site materials, cleaner and neater environment, controlled quality, and lower totalconstruction cost (CIDB, 2003).One fact which seems to have the common consensus of all the stakeholders of IBS inMalaysia is that, the implementation of IBS in Malaysian building construction industry is still

very low compared to the conventional methoof IBS in Malaysian building construction industry is stillvery low compared to the conventional methods