Common defects ranking on apartment and terrace Building in Bukit Mertajam, Penang / Nor Aishah Alias and Mohd Khairul Amri Ramly

Building defect is the common issue in apartment and terrace residential building. The defect is due to imperfect building materials, development strategies, poor workmanship, and lacking supervision. In this research focused on analising and developing ranking on common defect comparison between ap...

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Main Authors: Alias, Nor Aishah, Ramly, Mohd Khairul Amri
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/97660/1/97660.pdf
https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/97660/
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Summary:Building defect is the common issue in apartment and terrace residential building. The defect is due to imperfect building materials, development strategies, poor workmanship, and lacking supervision. In this research focused on analising and developing ranking on common defect comparison between apartment and terrace houses. Generally, this research utilise quantitative approach where an online questionnaire has been distributed to respondents and the data collected was analysed through mean statistical analysis. It was found that are six common defect that usually occur at both apartment and terrace houses with the most common defect is crack on building façade. The result of the research helps to gain the futher findings on the particular topic and to guide public to understand futhers on defect issue plaguing on residential properties. The ranking system helps to understand futher on the level of awareness of respondents. This shows that a problem can be avoided by doing good inspection practice to ensure that no significant effects arise.