doi: 10.7763/IJET.2012.V4.406
Review of Subcontracting Practice in Construction Industry
Lew Yoke-Lian
1,2
,
S. Hassim
1
,
R. Muniandy
2
,
Law Teik-Hua
2
- 1 the Department of Built Environment, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- 2 Department of Civil Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia
Abstract
Great numbers of traders from different specialisation makes construction industry is a complicated and unique industry. To overcome the demand on special expertise, advanced equipment, and huge investment cost, letting out work to subcontractors has been a norm in construction industry. Nevertheless, large presence of subcontracting poses challenges to contractors, client and their project management teams to manage such a large, diverse and fragmented group of subcontractors. Success of a construction project is essentially depending on the ability of general contractor to select the appropriate subcontractor during bidding process, and the sufficient management of subcontractor during construction. This paper served as a summary of literature review done on types of subcontractor, problems generated by subcontractor, and current proposed methods to enhance the subcontracting practice.
Keywords
- Subcontractors
- construction
How to Cite
Lew Yoke-Lian, S. Hassim, R. Muniandy, and Law Teik-Hua, "Review of Subcontracting Practice in Construction Industry," International Journal of Engineering and Technology, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 442-445, 2012. https://doi.org/ 10.7763/IJET.2012.V4.406
Copyright & License
Copyright © 2012 by the authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).