Report outline

Introduction

• The building construction development from ancient Mesopotamia to the late twentieth century.
• Technology plays an important in the building construction regardless of building technology, CAD technology.
• Briefing on the issues/problems:

1. Construction industry is a high hazardous industry.
2. Construction industry is wasting natural resources.
3. People are forced to seek for temporary shelter due to war, economic or natural disaster.
4. Low-income households in urban area.

Chapter 1: The roles of Contour Crafting in construction industry.

• Analysis the accident statistic in construction industry and find out the reasons - human carelessness, collapse of scaffolding, brick wall, etc.
• Contour crafting will be a great solution for the problems that construction industry in Malaysia are facing - manpower, qualify of productivity and time.

Lack of manpower

1. less local workers therefore need to hire workers from other country such as Indonesia, Bangladesh and Myanmar.
2. foreign workers have contracts will cause shortage of manpower if a project takes a longer period to finish.
3. workers at construction industry does not have any experience as some of them just need a job for living regardless of having any experience.

Quality of productivity

1. lacked of trained manpower.
2. contractors lacked of skill knowledge in engineering construction.
3. project does not follow the schedule and does not have a good management.

Project completion on time

1. does not follow the timetable.
2. cause by weather.
3. problem with contract workers.

• Contour crafting can solve the problems as it is an automated process without worrying about the lack of manpower, quality of productivity and time.
• Contour crafting can reduce the usage of natural resources without doing all the frameworks before constructing a building - scaffolding and wood for houses, shop-houses.
• 50% of global energy, 50% water, 60% materials, 80% land loss to agriculture, 60% timber products, 90% hardwoods are all directly lined with building construction while indirectly, 50% of carol reefs and 25% rain forest are being damaged duo to buildings and construction.

Chapter 2 : How Contour crafting can help the victims of natural disaster.

Case study 1 : Sichuan earthquake 2008

• 4,800,000 people are left homeless right after the earthquake.

Case study 2 : Tsunami 2004

• 10,000,000 people became homeless.
• an opinion was raised that human destruction of carol reefs may have played a role in exacerbating the destruction caused by the tsunami.
• on the Surin Island chain of Thailand's coast, people may have been saved as the tsunami rushed against the carol reefs, lessening its impact.
• in a way, it is relate back to chapter 1 where building construction indirectly damaged 50% of the carol reefs. If it continues, there will be no more carol reefs help lessening the impact of tsunami if it happens in the future.

• Contour crafting can offer a temporary shelter for those victims cause of its "a house per day".
• Contour crafting is adaptable and can use in situ construction material, thus eliminating the need to transport materials long distance, saving time and costs.

Chapter 3 : Low income housing in urban area.

*still working on this chapter. Gotta understand more on this urban area.