Reverse logistic for industrial building system construction project

Abstract

Industrialize Building System (IBS) is a manufacturing best practice that capable to interfere to market the construction. With the right product encouragement from Malaysian government, through its policies and regulations the IBS methods can flourish. However the construction industry players in Malaysia are still not rapidly embracing IBS due to numbers of barriers. Reverse logistic is the process of planning, implementing and controlling flows of raw materials, in process inventory, and finished goods, from a manufacturing, distribution, or use point to a point of recovery or point of proper disposal. The objectives of this study to identify the problems and challenges in reverse logistics and to find solutions to that problems on IBS projects. The data were collected through questionnaires and interviews. The questionnaire was done online and the respondents such as clients, consultants and the contractors, the data from the questionnaires were analyzed using the average index. The study focused on the cost effectiveness of IBS that can affected by the reverse logistic and there many problems can effect on reverse logistic, the reverse logistic can effect on IBS construction project in the form of cost, time and environment sustainability.