Behind Construction Fence: What Should We Do To Practice Zero Building Defects?

Abstract

A defect can easily been spot or simply exist without you notice it and this can become a big problem in building construction industry. Large amount of money been spent to rectify the building defects. The paper tends to expose the typical building defects either it latent or non-latent by identifying the defects from the real rectification projects accumulated from the real practice. The objective of the paper other than identifying the most common defects happened is also to guide the practitioners within the building industry from doing the same mistake. A total of 5,243 building defects has been identified from the data gathered from Specialist Waterproofing Contactors’ (SWC) real projects of about 100 totals of buildings been analysed. Mix methods combining the qualitative and quantitative is used to gather the nominal and ordinal data with the empirical research approach been formulated. The paper found out that most defects happened caused by water seepage with concrete flat roof lead the way. Most of the defects affected mostly to government office buildings. Lack of proper maintenance is the most problematic factor affected the roofing component. The wet areas such as the toilet areas is the most problematic space within the building interior. As a conclusion, a central data base accumulating all the building defects must be formulated to become as a direct reference point for the building industry players to refer to in order to obtain a defects-free building in the future.