Question

You are the Managing Director (MD) of BANDAR MALAYA SDN BHD, a leading construction and real estate company in the country, and you are required to find a C&S consulting firm to design and supervise the building structural systems of a ninety-eight floors high-rise building project for your company. You were approached by Ir. Calvin, a contractor with 30 years of experience in the building industry and also, a former Civil Structural Engineer at VSP Pte. Ltd. Australia, on the just mentioned project. Ir. Calvin offered you a very competitive price for the just mentioned work. Note that Ir. Calvin is a registered Professional Engineer with Practising Certificate with the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM). Anyway, there are four professional engineers in the Board of Directors of Ir. Calvin’s company, in which Ir. Calvin himself is one of the company directors, and two of the company directors are Professional Engineer with Practising Certificate. Explain whether you can engage Ir. Calvin’s company to carry out the project mentioned above in compliance with the laws of Malaysia.

Answer 1

Solution:

Yes, I can engage Ir. Calvin’s company to carry out the project mentioned above in compliance with the laws of Malaysia, because Ir. Calvin is a registered Professional Engineer with Practicing Certificate with the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM). And also Ir. Calvin himself is one of the company directors, and two of the company directors are Professional Engineer with Practicing Certificate. And if  Ir. Calvin has the proper visa according to the laws of Malaysia then I can hire him to design and supervise the building structural systems of a ninety-eight floors high-rise building project for my company.