INCREASING PRICES OF CONSTRUCTION WORKS

ACADEMIC REPORT WRITING UHL2332

Group 4 Members• Athirah Binti Azman AE09017• Chan Men Hoo AE09023• Nor Salica Binti Mohd Saad AE09025• Section: A03

INTRODUCTION

Background Information

Construction is the form of manner of building or putting together parts of a structure.

Construction works divide by many sector, there are transportation sector, raw material sector and worker sector.

Increasing price in construction works is the main problem in the construction management.

Objective• Find the reasons for increasing prices of

construction works• Find the solutions that can potentially solve this

problem.

Research Questions

• What are the reasons of increasing prices in construction works?

• What are the solutions that can be taken to overcome this problem?

Methodology• 30 respondents• Randomly from all faculties in UMP• Female and Male• Questionnaires distributed around the hostel and cafe KK3• Analysis the answer from respondents• Analysis the graph.

RESULTS AND ANALYSISReasons & Solutions;

INCREASING PRICES OF CONSTRUCTION WORKS

Reasons

• Inflation-Materials-Transportation-<INFLATION IN MALAYSIA> by Cheng & Tan 2002

Reasons• Humanity Error-Worker’s skill-Less affective in arrangement schedule-Peter E.D Love 2002

Reasons

• Waste Management-increasing job-more manpower is needed• Government Tax-international trading tax-land tax

How About The Result?

Reasons

inflation waste management humanity error government tax

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What About The Solutions?

Solutions

• Supported by Yuan et al. (2009) research

Solutions

• Supported by Chen et al. (2002) research

Solutions

• Supported by Chen et al. (2002) research

CONCLUSIONINCREASING PRICES OF CONSTRUCTION WORKS

In a nutshell..• This research was a success!• We have identified:

– Reasons– Solutions

Last But Not Least..

Thank You Very Much

To Our Friends &English Lecturer,

MADAM NIK ALOESNITA.