Housing Ministry to use Industrialised Building System for all housing projects, Zuraida says
PublishedMinister of Housing and Local Government Zuraida Kamaruddin at the opening of MGB’s IBS concrete plant in Nilai March 15, 2019. — Picture by Shafwan Zaidon
She said this was in line with National Housing Policy launched last year for the ministry to move forward towards IBS construction system. “This is to make our property development and housing more sustainable,” she said when officiating the MGB Sany IBS Sdn Bhd’s IBS precast concrete plant here, today.
Zuraida said the ministry was also looking at high technology construction, state of the art designs and on the quality of homes.
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