Update 3

Hello fellow members

Continuing with the President's activities in July it started off with BIPC dinner on 7 July at KL convention centre. I had just came back from Ipoh and was half an hour late for the dinner. Imagine my horror and embarrassment having to meekly smile to the guest of honor (KSU of Ministry of Works) and seated at the same VVIP table. The speech by the Chairman of BIPC (President of IEM) highlighted issues with regards to the memorandum that we forwarded to the government.

On 7 July I attended the meeting on the CIDB Excellence Award being in the committee for the CEO of the Year Award and Player of the Year Award. I was again in CIDB on 9 July for the discussion on the CIDB Strategic Thrust 1 of their Masterplan.

We had our Management committee meeting on the morning of 13 July and the afternoon we met P.E Chong of IEM who highlighted on the issues of concern by IEM on the construction industry Payment and Adjudication Act. On 16 July I had a brief discussion with ISM COO Katherine on secretariat issues. Then I was off to Australia on a personal business.

The 2nd council meeting was held on 27 July. It was a real bummer when at the last minute not even one of the management committee was able to attend the MITI dialogue held on 28 July. ISM forwarded a memorandum to MITI with regards to the surveying profession and the construction industry. On 29 & 30 July I represented ISM at the International Construction Conference held in Padang Indonesia as ISM was invited as one of the VVIP. I took the opportunity to discuss with QSs in Indonesia on their formation of Institusi QS Indonesia (IQSI).

So that wraps up the President's activities on behalf of ISM for the month of July. If you need to see the detail of the discussions, minutes and memorandum mentioned above, do call up our COO Katherine. Selamat berpuasa and take care