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CIDB pens MoUs with eight organisations for
adoption of MyCESMM
MyCESMM aims to enhance professionalism and competitive edge
of the local construction industry.
CHECKED OR OTHERWISE, overruns in
manpower, materials and machinery are a
bane to any building venture, explainable,
like spilled milk, but irrecoverable in the final
reckoning. The larger the scale of the venture
or project, e.g., highways, air and sea ports,
power plants and other civil engineering
works, the more adverse the impact – a
case for cost-effectiveness in public and/or
private sector construction delivery. For the
record, Malaysia expended RM157 billion in
2014 for 7,628 projects, of which total RM32
billion (21%) was for building infrastructure
whereas housing accounted for RM43 billion
(27%), social amenities for RM8 billion
(5%) and RM74 billion (47%) for others.
To date, up to mid-2015, the tally is RM39
billion (or 2,183 projects), comparable to
the same quantum for mid-2014 or 2,203
projects (Source: CIDB).
In the bid to do away with discrepancies
and ambiguities (at pre-procurement,
drafting of Bills of Quantities and
construction stage), the Construction
Industry Development Board (CIDB)
introduced
MyCESMM
(Malaysian
Civil Engineering Standard Method
of Measurement) in 2011. With a view
to “enhance professionalism and the
competitive edge of the local construction
industry”, MyCESMM provides for the use
of one standard and aims for all engineering
disciplines to better understand the nature
Minister of Works YB Dato’ Sri Haji Fadillah Haji Yusof, CIDB Chief Executive YBhg Dato’ Sri Ir
Dr Judin Abdul Karim, CIDB Chairman YB Tan Sri Dr Ir Ahmad Tajuddin Ali and Ir Noraini Bahri,
CIDB General Manager IBS & Mechanisation-Technlology Development Sector with representatives
from the eight organisations at the signing ceremony.
of work to be undertaken and, in turn,
reduce potential claims and disputes during
construction - all at the preparatory and
pre-building stage, not after, so as to deliver
cost-effective projects
There
was
occasion,
therefore,
to celebrate when CIDB penned a
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU),
officiated by Minister of Works, YB Dato’
Sri Haji Fadillah Haji Yusof, with a number
of organisations, public and private, for the
adoption of MyCESMM,
namely:
s Gamuda Berhad
s Jabatan Kerja Raya
(Public Works
Department), Malaysia
s Lembaga Jurutera
Malaysia (Board of
Engineers Malaysia)
s Mass Rapid Transit
Corporation Sdn Bhd
Dato’ Judin (centre) and Ir
Noraini (third from right)
during the signing ceremony.
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Projek Lebuhraya Usahasama (PLUS)
Berhad Malaysia
Prasarana Malaysia Berhad
Suruhanjaya Perkhidmatan Air Negara
(National Water Services Commission)
Tenaga Nasional Berhad
At the half-day event, which also
included a talk on MyCESMM, trainer
certificates were awarded to 38 civil
engineers and quantity surveyors who
have been tutored by CIDB, in the use
of the system, via its “train-the-trainer”
programme.
(A collective 200 building professionals
from 11 organisations in Sabah and
Sarawak, with whom MoUs were signed in
2013 and 2014, have similarly been trained
by CIDB.)
Ceremonies aside, two MyCESMM
users/collaborators took to the rostrum to
share their experiences in presentations of
case studies on MyCESMM applications in
civil engineering works from the engineer’s
perspective and that of a quantity
surveyor’s. Q