Soft-scape quality issues in landscape construction industry : Malaysia
Over the past decade, concerns have been expressed on the quality of construction products and processes. Massive developments experienced by the construction sector in Malaysia have led to a devastating compromise in quality. The problems in a construction project are mainly related to quality such...
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| author | Ab Sani, Jasasikin Ahmad Sharip, Nur Athirah Ibrahim, Putri Haryati |
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| description | Over the past decade, concerns have been expressed on the quality of construction products and processes. Massive developments experienced by the construction sector in Malaysia have led to a devastating compromise in quality. The problems in a construction project are mainly related to quality such as building does not comply with specifications, and sub-standard still exists. Attainment of an acceptable level of quality in construction has long been a problem. Landscape construction, in general, is part of the total construction and is not exempted from the same problem. In general, all of them refer to quality as conformance or compliance with the specification. Landscape construction can be part of an overall construction project or independent landscape project. Therefore, the objective of quality standard in landscape construction may not be different from the purpose of quality standard in total construction. Thus, this research aims to evaluate the softscape quality issues in Malaysia. This research is looking at the responses given by the relationship between status, types of organisations, groups of organisations and gender with the problems of quality of softscape construction work. The survey respondents were among Landscape Architects from various landscape organisations who were landscape consultants, landscape contractors, developers, government agencies, and educational institutions. The findings of the research are about the issue of landscape quality management in Malaysia in general. Majority of the respondents pointed out that the quality of the softscape construction in Malaysia was not properly controlled. Responses from the survey have shown the level of dissatisfaction of respondents on softscape quality in Malaysia. |
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| spelling | iium-814092020-12-16T08:26:25Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/81409/ Soft-scape quality issues in landscape construction industry : Malaysia Ab Sani, Jasasikin Ahmad Sharip, Nur Athirah Ibrahim, Putri Haryati NA2542.35 Environmental aspect of architecture QK Botany Over the past decade, concerns have been expressed on the quality of construction products and processes. Massive developments experienced by the construction sector in Malaysia have led to a devastating compromise in quality. The problems in a construction project are mainly related to quality such as building does not comply with specifications, and sub-standard still exists. Attainment of an acceptable level of quality in construction has long been a problem. Landscape construction, in general, is part of the total construction and is not exempted from the same problem. In general, all of them refer to quality as conformance or compliance with the specification. Landscape construction can be part of an overall construction project or independent landscape project. Therefore, the objective of quality standard in landscape construction may not be different from the purpose of quality standard in total construction. Thus, this research aims to evaluate the softscape quality issues in Malaysia. This research is looking at the responses given by the relationship between status, types of organisations, groups of organisations and gender with the problems of quality of softscape construction work. The survey respondents were among Landscape Architects from various landscape organisations who were landscape consultants, landscape contractors, developers, government agencies, and educational institutions. The findings of the research are about the issue of landscape quality management in Malaysia in general. Majority of the respondents pointed out that the quality of the softscape construction in Malaysia was not properly controlled. Responses from the survey have shown the level of dissatisfaction of respondents on softscape quality in Malaysia. Universiti Putra Malaysia 2020-06-01 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/81409/7/81409%20Soft-scape%20quality%20issues%20in%20landscape%20construction%20industry.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/81409/8/81409%20Soft-scape%20quality%20issues%20in%20landscape%20construction%20industry%20SCOPUS.pdf Ab Sani, Jasasikin and Ahmad Sharip, Nur Athirah and Ibrahim, Putri Haryati (2020) Soft-scape quality issues in landscape construction industry : Malaysia. Alam Cipta: International Journal of Sustainable Tropical Design Research and Practice, 13 (1). pp. 12-17. ISSN 1823-7231 https://frsb.upm.edu.my/upload/dokumen/20200630133715Paper_2.pdf |
| spellingShingle | NA2542.35 Environmental aspect of architecture QK Botany Ab Sani, Jasasikin Ahmad Sharip, Nur Athirah Ibrahim, Putri Haryati Soft-scape quality issues in landscape construction industry : Malaysia |
| title | Soft-scape quality issues in landscape construction industry : Malaysia |
| title_full | Soft-scape quality issues in landscape construction industry : Malaysia |
| title_fullStr | Soft-scape quality issues in landscape construction industry : Malaysia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Soft-scape quality issues in landscape construction industry : Malaysia |
| title_short | Soft-scape quality issues in landscape construction industry : Malaysia |
| title_sort | soft-scape quality issues in landscape construction industry : malaysia |
| topic | NA2542.35 Environmental aspect of architecture QK Botany |
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