Overcoming Vulnerability and Achieving Resilience in Housing Designs in Post-Conflict Myanmar Using a KBDSS for Buildability and Productivity

Post-conflict reconstruction concentrates institutional fragility, supply-chain disruption, and weak regulatory enforcement at the moment when long-term resilience trajectories are being set. Myanmar’s housing sector, operating under prolonged civil conflict and post-earthquake reconstruction pressure, exemplifies these conditions. This research adapts Singapore’s Buildable Design Appraisal System (BDAS) and Constructability Appraisal System (CAS) to Myanmar’s post-conflict housing context and translates the empirical findings into a Knowledge-Based Decision Support System (KBDSS). An integrated framework combining Value Chain Analysis (VCA), the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), and Scott’s Institutional Framework (IF) underpins the study. A questionnaire survey (n = 139) of Myanmar building professionals is analysed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling and Necessary Condition Analysis. The model explains 57.9% of the variance in framework adaptation; competitive advantage, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and the post-conflict/disaster context emerge as both sufficient and necessary conditions, while regulative support dominates among the three institutional pillars. These findings underpin the inference logic of a prototype KBDSS for resilient housing reconstruction. This research contributes empirical evidence on operationalising urban resilience under institutional fragility in the Global South.