The Malaysian Government has been continuously encouraging the engineers, the practitioners, and the construction industry to use the Industrialised Building System (IBS), which is considered to be an important part of modern method approach of construction. According to Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB), there are five main parts of IBS, namely precast component systems, steel framing systems, formworks systems, prefabricated timber framing systems, and blockwork systems, which have started to replace the traditional construction method. The objective of this study is to identifies the blockwork manufacturing process and also to identifies the decisive factor to setting up blockwork manufacturing plant. The methodology used in this study is relied on the qualitative approach. Data collection process was done by conducting observation to the location of the blockwork manufacturer and conducting interview with duration 45 minutes to 1 hour. The number of interviewee that in.....

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