hey guys, u may ask me anything about construction industry and i'll try my best to answer all ur question.


u may join this group too
https://t.me/joinchat/GnpHTxbi4CFMfOC6SSWSgg

Construction Industry is so complex and actually affect various party namely,

House buyer / Purchaser
Developer
Consultant (Architect, Engineer and etc)
Main Contractor
Subcontractor / Vendor / Supplier
Local Authority (DBKL, BOMBA, SYABAS, TNB, TELEKOM, POS, JKKP, IWK and etc.)

u can also ask me about construction law. I know a lot abt that too

This post has been edited by iwubpreve: Mar 13 2019, 01:36 PM

Recent fuel hike just kicked in for another 10% increase. Will the manufacturer and supplier increase their construction material selling price? Is the main contractor and sub contractor also demanding certain compensation due to this fuel hike?

I found out that recent quarry materials are hard to secure good grade in compliance with condition of contract. The supplier keeps throwing excused that quarry material in good grade are hard to produce due to irregular mining source or being closed down by authority, but our client not buying this excuse. What way to protect our best interest?

If you insist good grade, supplier will sell you like 30% higher rates. It is common nowaday?

Workmanship and quality issue.

Indonesian workers wont bulge in giving competitive rates for supply of labours. no doubt their workmanship is average satisfy but their high rates nowaday are killing the industry. They are very demanding nowaday, unlike old day.

If we opted with Bangala or Nepal or Vietnamese as construction workers, although their wages are much cheaper than Indon, but 80% of them are unskilled and lazy.

What would be the best way to overcome this labour issue?

Main Contractor profit margins. Years before 2008, Main Con still can secure a project at least with 15% profit margin

But nowaday, Main con are suffering thin line of profit margin around 5% to 10%. That if there are no excessive wastage, site corruption and LAD imposed.

Are Main Con business secured nowaday? From my opinion, 8 out of 10 Main Con firms nowaday are poorly performed.

There are no association in malaysia that will safe guard their best interest from these main con. I believe CIDB and MBAM only interested with big player Main Con.

Still many queries in my mind, but i want to see how good is your understanding for my above stated. thanks

How much 1 kilo simen?

Why are subcontractors so terrible? Why mrt keep accident. Why locals dowan to work in construction?

nowaday all construction site wanna safe cost, hence hired PART TIME cheap safety officer just to comply the paper work to JKKP. Thats why

rm25 for 50kg, u do the math

The packing is 50kg? Do they come in smaller packing? Maybe 10kg, so when can put in car boot and haul back home. (For DIY home improvement project).

thanks for your enquiries, you may look for smaller packaging at any hardware shop for DIY purpose. They do sell repackaging for any mansory product. take note mansory product shelf life span is 3 months due to local high humid.

i hv a question.. this tered here

https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3381419

Not all subcon are bad.

Not only MRT, almost all construction sites got accident occurred, for MRT such huge project just 3-4 cases considered very less d. Other small project maybe ur current house got pipu died during construction period u also dont know.

Cuz will old faster and low pay. Just like Singapore construction always got vacancy for Malaysian or Indonesian engineer. Because Singaporean want work inside office.

FYI for project like MRT, people in mmc gamuda who doing all these paper work is very high paid

OPC (ordinary Portland cement) is control price item. RM17 / bag. 50kg per bag. minimum purchase is 400 bag la. when unload the cement from trailer they will charge abt 30 cents / bag.

if u only wanna buy 1 bag, hardware shop sell RM20++.

cement will "expired" also. mean those cement that remain unsold for long period after manufactured. so those cement will sell at control price minus RM2 or RM3. just like BLR -2% something like that.

this is more on safety precaution. anyway need to differentiate what is accident and incident. some could be prevent if done proper precaution. some cannot as it is unforeseen. clearly MRT is due to negligence of all parties.

Why no hot girls working as labourer in construction industry?!

fuel hike is impact on everything. this is called domino effect. however, in order to be competitive in construction industry, u have to bid the lowest u could. however please take note that this only apply on transparent bidding process, if u know what I mean

not suitable for girl working there. there do have some girl are engineer, but very very less. but there have a lot of girls worked as QS.

generally girl is not suitable.

yes, standard package is 50kg. government control price is RM17 but will up down up down like stock market. those hardware shop repackage it into 1kg per pack also have. RM2 per kg. so u know how much they really earn. RM100 selling price when they split the 50kg pack when actual they just paid for RM17 for 50kg. but of course, minimum order is 400bag in a trailer in order to get that price. deal with trading house normally.