Identifying Competency of Housing Construction Personnel in Indonesia

Abstract

House is one of the main human needs, and the Government must guarantee the fulfilment of these rights. However, at present, Indonesia is experiencing a backlog that is the lack of descents houses for the Indonesian society and this continues to grow as population growth with insufficient housing supply. Increasing the capacity of descent houses production can overcome the backlog in Indonesia so that this problem does not worsen. To increase the capacity of house production, supporting factors must be prepared. These factors include the human resources, especially construction executor who have positions as leaders. The objective of this paper is to determine the critical competencies that must be mastered by the construction executor of house construction. This is useful for improving the education and training for the construction executor. In this study, the method used includes two main steps, first is data collection methods and data processing methods. Data collection was carried out by interviewing and giving questionnaires to those who have knowledge of the construction executor of houses construction work. Data processing is carried out by sorting the mean rank of competencies so that it can be seen the important sequence of competencies that must be owned by the construction executor in the construction of houses. The results of this study get the most important types of competencies for construction executor, namely: competence in reinforcement work, concrete mix work, measurement work, painting work, easel work, and roof covering work.