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The construction industry plays an important role in generating wealth and improving the quality of life for Malaysians through the translation of government's socio-economic policies into social and economic infrastructure and buildings. The construction industry also provides job opportunities for approximately 800,000 people. Further, the construction industry creates a multiplier effect to other industries, including manufacturing, financial services, and professional services.
There are lots of problems that the Malaysian construction industry faces which will effects to the productivity of construction industry usually caused by manpower, quality of productivity and time.
1) Lack of Manpower
- Workers from others country like Indonesia, Bangladesh and Myanmar.
- Have a contracts.
- Have less local workers.
- The workers work at construction industry does not have any experience.
2) Quality of Productivity
- Lack of trained manpower.
- Many of contractors in Malaysia do not have many skills in engineering construction.
- Do not follow the schedule.
- Do not have a good management
3) Do Not Finish the Project on Time
- Do not follow the timetable.
- Causes by a weather.
- Problem with contract workers.
Suggestions
- Take more local workers and have a good technical skill in construction.
- It is easy to us to do work and the project can be finish on time.
- We must to repair our weak in management to have a quality of productivity.
For more information, you can read about the overview of the Construction Industry in Malaysia. You can download Construction Industry Master Plan (Malaysia 2006 - 2015) in PDF format for here
