THE CHALLENGE OF LABOUR SHORTAGE FOR SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION

Authors

  • Faizul Azli Mohd Rahim Centre for Building, Construction, & Tropical Architecture Faculty of Built Environment UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA
  • Nurul Safwah Mohd Yusoff Centre for Building, Construction, & Tropical Architecture Faculty of Built Environment UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA
  • Wang Chen Centre for Building, Construction & Tropical Architecture Faculty of Built Environment UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA
  • Nurshuhada Zainon Centre for Building, Construction, & Tropical Architecture Faculty of Built Environment UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA
  • Sumiani Yusoff Department of Civil Engineering Faculty of Engineering UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA
  • Rafikullah Deraman Department of Building and Construction Engineering, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNIVERSITI TUN HUSSEIN ONN MALAYSIA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21837/pm.v14i5.194

Keywords:

sustainable construction, labour shortage, technical education, vocational training

Abstract

In line with the principle of sustainable development, construction projects ought to be developed to bring benefits across all aspects, namely economic, social, and environmental. One the other hand, being a complex, fragmented and schedule driven industry, construction projects are frequently subject to problems that constrain their execution. Since construction is a labour intensive industry, the shortage of labour has become the crucial risks that hindering the construction project in achieving sustainability. This paper, in reviewing the concept of sustainable construction, also addresses the influential factors concerning the labour shortages in the construction industry and discusses how these challenges can be managed in producing sustainable construction labours.

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2016-11-10

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Mohd Rahim, F. A., Mohd Yusoff, N. S., Chen, W., Zainon, N., Yusoff, S., & Deraman, R. (2016). THE CHALLENGE OF LABOUR SHORTAGE FOR SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION. PLANNING MALAYSIA, 14(5). https://doi.org/10.21837/pm.v14i5.194

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