QLASSIC adoption amongst Sabah construction industry players and stakeholders

In the construction industry sector, the main objectives are to complete the construction project within time, good quality and within cost budgeted. Yet, most of the contractors neglected the main objective to deliver a good quality of construction project. The Malaysian government has come up with various plans and roadmap such as the Construction Industry Transformation Programme (CITP) 2016-2022 in making sure the quality of construction is emphasized. Unfortunately, the problem with regards to the poor quality is the unending introduction of QLASSIC and adoption of it is one of the initiatives to control the quality of construction projects. Therefore, this research project, is to explore the most and less affected challenges of adoption QLASSIC within registered contractor under Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) in Sabah state area. The findings based on the questionnaires as the primary data which have been distributed focusing on G6 and G7 registered contractor under CIDB. The data was collected by using formal Likert scale questionnaire as the main instrument. Simple random stratified and systematic sampling was used to assign questionnaires to respondents. Data samples were evaluated using index and rating. This survey focuses on the potential affected challenges that affect the awareness of QLASSIC implementation in Sabah. The factors have been divided into two major classifications namely major affected challenges and minor affected challenges adopting QLASSIC among Sabah construction industry players and stakeholders. Eventually, this research has come out with the listed affected factor to the implementation of QLASSIC by rank which are Awareness, Expertise, Financial, Tool and Materials, Management System, Benefits, Implementation, Endorsement, Bureaucracy and Political. From this research, it can be concluded that the adoption of QLASSIC amongst Sabah construction industry players and stakeholders is still low. Poor awareness, lacking in expertise, financial problem and availability of tools and material was among the major factors affecting the adoption of QLASSIC. By focusing and giving prior toward these major factors affected the adoption of QLASSIC, the implementation of QLASSIC can be improved.