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.