Digitalization in malaysian construction industry: Awareness, challenges and opportunities
The construction industry is going forward by adopting digitization, but players are still battling to grasp and execute it properly. That is why, this study aims to evaluate the awareness, challenges and opportunities of digitalization in the Malaysian construction industry and provides a framework...
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| author | Muhammad Ali Musarat Wesam Salah Alaloul Siti Mariam Binti Zainuddin Abdul Hannan Qureshi Ahsen Maqsoom |
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| description | The construction industry is going forward by adopting digitization, but players are still battling to grasp and execute it properly. That is why, this study aims to evaluate the awareness, challenges and opportunities of digitalization in the Malaysian construction industry and provides a framework for better digital implementation. In this perspective, a questionnaire-based study was conducted, and the responses were collected from field experts who have implemented a digital system in their construction projects. The outcome shows that the Malaysian construction industry is aware of digitalization and rated the Industrialized Building System (IBS) as the most important technology. In Project Delivery, “Standardized Organization” was the utmost factor for digitalization in construction. The top Challenge in Digital Implementation is “Organizational costs are among the high initial costs of implementing technologies, standards, and specifications”. The top Opportunity in Digital Transformation is “Procedures better planned and monitored”. Based on the top factors, the framework was constructed which will help the practitioners to understand and implement digitalization in a much better way. Thus, this study is significant in addressing the issues related to implementing digitalization in the Malaysian construction industry and providing a perspective to catalyse the development. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-11597cd12d1f4109a09c7f849bc435662024-03-24T07:01:28ZengElsevierResults in Engineering2590-12302024-03-0121102013Digitalization in malaysian construction industry: Awareness, challenges and opportunitiesMuhammad Ali Musarat0Wesam Salah Alaloul1Siti Mariam Binti Zainuddin2Abdul Hannan Qureshi3Ahsen Maqsoom4Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Bandar Seri Iskandar 32610, Perak, Malaysia; Offshore Engineering Centre, Institute of Autonomous System, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Bandar Seri Iskandar 32610, Perak, MalaysiaDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Bandar Seri Iskandar 32610, Perak, Malaysia; Corresponding author.Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Bandar Seri Iskandar 32610, Perak, MalaysiaDepartment of Building and Real Estate, Faculty of Construction and Environment, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong 999077, ChinaGreen Tech Institute, University Mohammed VI Polytechnic, MoroccoThe construction industry is going forward by adopting digitization, but players are still battling to grasp and execute it properly. That is why, this study aims to evaluate the awareness, challenges and opportunities of digitalization in the Malaysian construction industry and provides a framework for better digital implementation. In this perspective, a questionnaire-based study was conducted, and the responses were collected from field experts who have implemented a digital system in their construction projects. The outcome shows that the Malaysian construction industry is aware of digitalization and rated the Industrialized Building System (IBS) as the most important technology. In Project Delivery, “Standardized Organization” was the utmost factor for digitalization in construction. The top Challenge in Digital Implementation is “Organizational costs are among the high initial costs of implementing technologies, standards, and specifications”. The top Opportunity in Digital Transformation is “Procedures better planned and monitored”. Based on the top factors, the framework was constructed which will help the practitioners to understand and implement digitalization in a much better way. Thus, this study is significant in addressing the issues related to implementing digitalization in the Malaysian construction industry and providing a perspective to catalyse the development.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590123024002664DigitalizationTechnologyAwarenessChallengesOpportunitiesConstruction |
| spellingShingle | Muhammad Ali Musarat Wesam Salah Alaloul Siti Mariam Binti Zainuddin Abdul Hannan Qureshi Ahsen Maqsoom Digitalization in malaysian construction industry: Awareness, challenges and opportunities Results in Engineering Digitalization Technology Awareness Challenges Opportunities Construction |
| title | Digitalization in malaysian construction industry: Awareness, challenges and opportunities |
| title_full | Digitalization in malaysian construction industry: Awareness, challenges and opportunities |
| title_fullStr | Digitalization in malaysian construction industry: Awareness, challenges and opportunities |
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| title_short | Digitalization in malaysian construction industry: Awareness, challenges and opportunities |
| title_sort | digitalization in malaysian construction industry awareness challenges and opportunities |
| topic | Digitalization Technology Awareness Challenges Opportunities Construction |
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