Report on Visit to Housing Development Board (HDB) of Singapore from 26th-27th June 2013

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Report on Visit to HDB Singapore 26th-27th June 2013

Workshop Report 4th Annual Housing Project Marcus Evans 19th June 2013, Hilton KL

Workshop Report 4th Annual Housing Project Marcus Evans 19th June 2013, Hilton KL

Strategic Collaboration on FM with BIFM UK

A meeting with British Institute of FM (BIFM) was held at Faculty of Built Environment Univ Malaya on 20th June 2013. BIFM was presented by Mr Gareth Tancred, CEO of BIFM. Senior officer from UKAS JPM, MAFM, CREAM and UM attended the discussion. The meeting concluded to have strategic partnership in terms of training and accreditation, establish Centre of Excellence in FM, to facilitate FM industries in Malaysia to the greater height as what has been achieved in UK and Europe.

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4th Annual Affordable Housing

Meeting with YB Ar Iskandar Abdul Samad, an EXCO of Stateof Selangor in charge on housing on 18th June 2013 at Hilton KL Hotel.Among the discussion to seek for potential of housing and facilities research and also green features.

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BIM performance measurement overview

Mr Bilal Succar from ChangeAgenta AECAustralia highlighted 3 measurement scales i.eindividuals,organisation and markets-Seminar BIM 23 April 2013 Cyberview Resort

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Courtesy call by Chairman of BIFM UK Ms Ismena Clout

A courtesy call has been made by the Chairman of British Institute of FM (BIFM) UK, Ms Ismena Clout to Construction Research Institute of Malaysia (CREAM) recently. BIFM is the second largest FM institution in the world. The visit is part of her trip to Malaysian and other countries. Among the points of discussion is to seek for any collaboration relating to FM in PPP/PFI. Other officers attended the discussion are Mr Massuan Ahamad, a consultant and expert officer of PPP Unit (UKAS) Prime Minister Office (PMO) and lecturer from University Malaya. All parties had agreeable to work in collaborative for mutual benefits in particular of FM areas. 

Visit to BIFM UK

Study visit to British Institute of FM (BIFM) was held on March 2013 to get the latest development of FM in UK. The presentation has been made by Neill Everett Manager of Bus Development. A delegation comprise post grad student of FM from Univ Malaya.

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Learning and Research Visit to University College of London (UCL) UK will  be held from 11th-21st March 2013, an outbound programme by FM post graduate students from Faculty of Built Environment University Malaya. Some 11 students and supervisor Assoc Prof Sr Dr Syahrul Nizam will lead the delegation and tour in London. During the trip students will be joining FM strategic planning classes conducted by Professor Michael Pitt and other FM Professor in UCL. The delegates will also visit to Defense Ministry to see FM development. Besides, an arrangement has been made with British Institute of Facilities Management (BIFM) to discuss on further potential research and collaboration in FM and get some insight and taught on the development of FM in UK and Europe.

CREAM Event of the Year 2013 : 3rd CIRAIC

25th-26th March 2013, Seri Pacific Hotel PWTC Kuala Lumpur

 

Construction Research Institute of Malaysia (CREAM), CIDB Malaysia and Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Surveying UiTM Shah Alam will be organizing the 3^rdConstruction Industry Research Achievement International Conference 2013 (3^rd CIRAIC 2013) with the theme “Integrated Sustainable Village and Housing” on;

Date    :           25^th March 2013, Monday (Conference)

                        26^th March 2013, Tuesday (Industry Workshop)

Time    :           8.00 am – 5.00 pm

Venue  :           Seri Pacific PWTC Hotel, Kuala Lumpur

For more information and registration, please communicate with;

MrFranky        -           019-482 2037 / franky@cidb.gov.my

MrFarhan        -           016-713 2034 / farhan@cream.com.my

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To view latest updates of the event, visit our official website www.cream.com.my

New Ventures CREAM and UMS on Green Construction and Sustainable FM

On 7th February 2013,CREAM and Universiti Malaysia Sabah UMS had signed a letter of intent to seek the potential collaboration on research covers in facilities management and sustainablr construction. The collaboration will mutually benefits for UMS in developing Eco Campus without leaving sustainable components in its agenda. Congratulation and credits for smart partnership in these initiatives

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Vacancy : Researcher for Facilities Management

CREAM is seeking reputable candidate to post a vacancy for researcher in FM at our institute immediately. The task is to assist research related to asset and FM which currently working gor in collaboration with UKAS JPM. Basic requirement BSc in Built Env. or BEng Civil or Electrical. Priority will be given those posses MSc in FM. Interested send resume to me khairolden@cidb.gov.my

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Plenary Session Workshop Asset and Facilities in PPP Project @ 10th Dec 2012

The plenary session is held in the afternoon session was facilitated by En. Mohamad Shahrizal Idris, Executive Director of GFM Sdn Bhd representing as a consultant for CIDB Malaysia. Some of the pertinent points had been captured during the discussion;

a) Categorisation of soft and hard FM should be well defined and deliberated further in the next workshop
b) Level of Service (LoS)  should involve right from design stage
c) Another service for consideration i.e Energy efficiency and Green Building
d) Benchmarking tool for ASL and KPI

At the end of the session, the workshop has came out with four themes for immediate research to be undertaken in collaboration with UKAS, govt agencies and FM practitioners. The willingness to share information, data on FM related are paramount. Themes reflected to the urgency and critical problems need to be addressed in PPP in Malaysia. Researchers could think to ponder in terms of detailing and scoping with regard to this topic.

a) Level of Service (LoS) and performance measurement
b) Benchmarking
     - Cost and performance
     - Best practices
c) Risk management in PFI projects
d) Pricing strategy and cost structure

Thereby, researcher interested to do FM in PFI can think further on these.

Workshop Asset Management and Facilities for PPP

Today 19th Dec 2012, Unit Kerjasama Awam Swasta UKAS JPM is organising the workshop to discuss the direction of asset and facilities including value managament. The definition of hard and soft FM should be clearly defined. The issue of pricing,level of service, benchmarking need to be tackled out by the government.

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Updates from seminar more info on bim in usa can be viewed and dowload from bim.psu.edu

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Seminar on future direction of building info modelling BIM

Presentation by Prof Chimay Anumba from Penns State Univ USA entitled developments of BIM. BIM was pioneered by Prof Gilbert Albright Penns State back 1961 with introduce Modcon

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FM Asia 2012, 20th November 2012 Prince Hotel KL

Group photo taken after conference ends. Mr Kenneth Foo of RQAM Singapore presenting his keynote address.

Short report on the Workshop Strategic Facilities Management Procurement for Organisation on 20th Nov 2012 at Prince Hotel KL

REPORT

WORKSHOP: A STRATEGIC FACILITIES MANAGEMENT PROCUREMENT FOR ORGANISATION IN CONJUNCTION WITH CONFERENCE FM ASIA 2012

Facilitator                    : Prof. Ir. Dr. Zuhairi Abd. Hamid, Executive Director CREAM

Co-facilitator               : Mr. Mohd Khairolden Ghani, R&D Manager of CREAM

Date                            : 20^th November 2012 (Tuesday)

Time                            : 5.30 pm until 7.00 pm

Venue                         : Prince Hotel Ballroom, Kuala Lumpur

Participants                 : 20 participants

Introduction

A workshop was held in the late afternoon after the conference session ends. The workshop was specifically design in conjunction with Facilities Management Asia 2012 Conference in focusing on identifying challenges, opportunities and sharing strategies, current edge technologies in FM industries. Around 20 participants had participated in the discussion

FM is not only focusing on the optimizing the cost of buildings but also on efficiency and suitability for people and process as well. One of the main processes that embrace the fast-forwarding FM is procurement. The improper selection of FM procurement process will leads to failure in its implementation. The current uptake of FM is at operational level, while its implementation involves short and medium term and also long term activities. The recommended organisational approach towards FM is at strategic level and this has to be adopted by the top management. It is prerequisite for an organisation to be equipped with management capability, individual competency and economic robustness to successfully implement FM. This workshop will discuss on FM procurement practices based on the current organisation’s performance.

·         Discuss current FM procurement practices in Malaysia

·         Determine the elements for hard and soft FM in building

·         Identify issues and challenges in preparing FM procurement practices in your organisation

·         Assess industry performance in implementing FM based on current FM procurement

·         Propose a strategic framework on practical FM procurement in your organisation.

1.      Discuss current FM procurement practices in Malaysia

Generally, the participants agreed in principle that the practice of FM in their organisation is run at operation level rather than strategic approach. It is due to that FM is not widely adopted and practiced in Malaysia. FM is merely perceived as maintenance per se. Currently FM is not widely being practiced in East Malaysia (i.e Sabah and Sarawak). The company out there are more practice more on maintenance exercise rather than FM. The people in East Malaysia generally do not really know what FM is is all about and its functionalities. They know more on maintenance in such organisation.

2.      Determine the elements for hard and soft FM in building

Overall participants of the workshop agreed on the elements in hard and soft FM.  Hard FM in this context is covers below;

Hard FM: Engineering, Information Technology, Biomedical Engineering, Security

Soft FM: Administration, Professional

Issue raised during the discussion is on the security whether it can be considered as soft FM. In the finding from previous workshop, security has been considered as hard FM.  Security in this case may considered as designing security post rather than looking on the maintenance per se. However the issue rose can be considered as soft FM by putting security as activities relates to maintenance.

3.      Identify issues and challenges in preparing FM procurement practices in your organisation

Some raised the issue of FM in Malaysia still new even though the term maintenance has been popular in Malaysian people for long time ago. People will only see the FM is only maintenance of building.  In terms of budgeting on FM, some said that common approach is based on yearly budget. FM is grouped under operation and maintenance (O&M) budget. The money will be channelled to the activities of operation and maintenance that would comprise day to day activities, landscaping, and renovation and so on. This approach is not strategic planning but is more on short term planning.  Another issue is on the people mentality especially officer in charge in government who only thinks on the cost per unit. They should think outside the box in finding way how to generate revenue from the FM. The participant also commented the research should not only focus to the government hospital but also looking on the private hospital. The issue of predicting the cost after certain period of time may also a challenge to FM in future. The concessionaire agreement will also play roles in determining the right cost with the right purpose and relevancy. Some pointed out that, should the ruling government change after general election (GE) there is possibilities to terminate all existing government agreements. This issue not being discussed detail by facilitator but is according to understanding such agreement could not be easily terminated without proper judgement and analyse. If and unless there some new consideration and approach to rectify the activities involved in the process could be materialised.

INETEGRITY

Integrity aspect is also pertinent factor need to be focus while dealing in procurement method. Parties involved in tendering process.

LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS

In procurement process the Government should engage the involvement of legal people right from beginning of its process to ascertain that legalities of process are in accordance to the client requirement.

4.      Assess industry performance in implementing FM based on current FM procurement

There are suggestion that activities and budgeting in maintenance and facilities should be audited by independent parties to ensure the integrity and transparent of a good governance such organisation. We should emulate Indonesian counterpart effort in carry out auditing exercise for energy efficiency in their building. In terms of service quality in hospital (taken as example), most of participants are opted for private medical centre to get their treatment after their retirement age compared to government hospital. This issue should be looked for why government hospital is lack behind in terms of services as compared to private hospital. They are more advance in terms of facilities, experts and many more. 

5.      Propose a strategic framework on practical FM procurement in your organisation.

Suggestion for Researcher;

·         An officer from government agency had proposed that the proposed framework by researcher should not only develop by open tender per se but also covers direct negotiation tender process. It will create more transparency and openness for people to know detail of procurement process in PFI project

·         Should develop more method of procurement process i.e Open tender, Negotiation tender

·         Should also include procurement for new contract services to look on the services i.e Service Level Agreement (SLA)

Concluding Remarks;

A short workshop has been successfully achieved its objective even though the time allocated by organiser. The supportive participant had aired their views pertaining to what is maintenance and FM is all about had really make workshop lively and good interaction. FM should position itself as a high value area rather than is viewed only doing things related to maintenance. The position of FM people will also be more respectful as compared before. The awareness and knowledge sharing of FM will be shared and inculcate will give top management consider FM as priority when it comes to the matter of budgeting.

FM Asia 2012 : Highlight of Workshop on Procurement

Current practice of FM in Malaysia is more on maintenance. Not strategic planning approach but short term gain. Yearly budget allocated under operation and maintenance. Mindset and culture should change to generate revenue of FM rather than cost centre.

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Conference FM Asia @ 20 Nov 2012 Prince Hotel KL

Address the issue of input of design in FM, whats happening in the Middle East Burgeoning region,challengea of outsourcing and many more.

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Selamat Hari Raya 1433H

The research team would like to wish Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri to all muslims and maaf zahir batin.Together we transform FM agenda towards sustainability

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