Quantity Surveyor: Featuring: An Interview With Tan Lay Kwan

QUANTITY
SURVEYOR
INTRODUCTIONTOTHECONSTRUCTIONINDUSTRY
FEATURING:
ANINTERVIEW
WITH
TANLAYKWAN
JUNE2015 ISSUE
CONTENT
- COMPANYPROFILE
- HISTORY
- STRUCTURE
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- ABOUTTHEINTERVIEWEE
- BIOGRAPHY
- PROJECTSINVOLVED
- Q&AINTERVIEW
COMPANYPROFILE
HISTORY
GEORGEKENT(MALAYSIA) BERHAD
George Kent (Malaysia) Berhad is an engineering-based company
with diversified business interests in many industries. The company
was established in1936 and is a renowned player in the water
industry.It is aMalaysian-based companywith active business
interests in the global markets.George Kent has been a pioneer in
many products and solutions and continued to be amarket-leader in
Malaysia in many industries. In recent years George Kent has
successfully ventured into other new businesses such as construction
and project management that has further strengthened its market
position.
LOCATIONANDCONTACT
Address:
George Kent Technology Centre, Lot 1115,
Batu 15, Jalan Dengkil,
47100 Puchong, Malaysia
Phone: +60 3-8064 8000
COMPANYSTRUCTURE
George Kent Malaysia is divided into two business divisions:
The IWC division (Infrastructure Investment, Water and Construction) and
the MMI division (Manufacturing, Meters and Industrial)
THEIWCDIVISION
Infrastructure Investment - Involved principally in water and water-related
industries overseas. Build Operate-Transfer (BOT) and
Transfer-Operate-Transfer (TOT) projects.
George Kent will act as investor, developer and contractor for the
implementation of major water infrastructure projects.
Water - Project management, Planning and design, Construction,
installation and commissioning,
Rehabilitation, upgrading, expansion of water treatment plants.
Specialist in water treatment, M&E Works, SCADA & Telemetry
Construction - Specialist in Project management, Planning and design,
Construction, installation and commissioning
THEMMIDIVISION
Besides water meters, the manufacturing unit also produce other
non-ferrous products and components for the water and other general
industries. Building on the strengths of its resources and expertise in the
brass manufacturing technology, George Kent is also an established
Original Equipment Manufacturer producing brass parts and components
for world-renowned companiesin many other industries throughout the
world. The plant iswell-equipped withadvanced hot-forging presses,
casting, machining lathes and testing facilities that are designed for a wide
range of high-precision engineering brass products like water meters, stop
valves, draw-off taps, float-operated valves, ferrules, ball valves, water
connection fittings, LPG cylinder valves and other machined parts.
BIOGRAPHY
- Graduated from Tunku Abdul
Rahman (TAR) college in 1984.
- Has been working for almost 30
years now and have joined
various companies like The Lion
Construction & Engineering, PJD
Construction, Latimer
Corporation, Namfatt
Construction, Kitakon and many
more.
TANLAYKWAN
- Head of the Tender & Proposal Department which is part of the

Commercial Department also known as the Contracts
Department/ Quantity Surveying Department.
(Senior Contract/ Proposal Manager)
- His job is to oversee and manage the tendering process of the IWC
division and coordinating with other support departments namely,
Finance & Control, Human Resource, Project department for specialist
input such as mechanical works, electrical works, process engineering,
planning department, etc to submit a competitive and compliant bid.
- As a Quantity Surveyor, Mr. Tan does analysis of bid prices and pricing
by specialist input departments and
suppliers/ vendors/ sub-contractors. Besides that, he establishes
pricing strategies in tenders & estimates. He will also review and
establish Joint Venture and Consortium agreements for formidable
tenders including risk and contract review of salient terms.
PROJECTS
MENGKUANGDAMEXPANSIONPROJECT
The existing Mengkuang Dam was built in 1983 with storage capacity of 22
million cubic meter. It supplies raw water to Sg Dua water treatment plant
during drought season each year to compensate the shortage of raw water
in Sg Muda. With the increasing water supply demand in Pulau Pinang, the
raw water supply from existing Mengkuang Dam is unable to meet the raw
water requirement of Sg Dua water treatment plant. Therefore, under the
10th Malaysia Plan, Federal Government has approved the Expansion of
Mengkuang Dam Project, Pulau Pinang. The objectives of the project are to
increase the reservoir storage from 22 million cubic meter to 73.5 million
cubic meter and the raw water supply capacity from 300 MLD to 1000 MLD
for the consumption at Sg Dua water treatment plant.
MENGKUANGDAMPROJECT
ROLES&RESPONSIBILITIESINTHISPROJECT
- To administer the various work packages of this mega project to
tune of RM680 million to ensure timely progress payment claims
and progress payments made to work package sub-contractors.
Variation claims must be submitted on timely basis and claims for
extension of time with valid grounds also forms the role of the
contract manager duly assisted by Site Quantity Surveyors.
- Negotiate rates with contractors on negotiated contracts and

deal with cost reimbursement contracts, design and build,
management and other forms of contract.
- Valuing work in progress and making recommendations as to
payments to be made to the contractor, including advising on
the financial effect of variations.
- To prepare the final account on completion of the contract
works.
- To advising on the financial and contractual aspects of
contractors?claims.
ADDITIONALBLOCKFORPUTRAJAYA
HOSPITAL- ENDOCRINE
(DESIGN&BUILDPROJECT)
In this currently ongoing project, the proposed endocrine hospital
with a multi-storey car park is a new extension block of the existing
hospital Putrajaya at Precinct 7. Proposed medical facilities and
amenities is to cater to a ?Centre of Excellence? specialist hospital
with Endocrinology, breast & endocrine, bariatic and metabolic
surgery. The project is administered by JKR under a Design & Build
framework with a completion period of 36 months including the car
park block.
ARTIST IMPRESSION - EYE LEVEL VIEW
ENDOCRINEPUTRAJAYAHOSPITALPROJECT
ROLES&RESPONSIBILITIESINTHISPROJECT
- To manage the design concept and detail technical
submission/ detail design prepared by the various consultants
engaged including the pricing strategy and estimation of the Cost
Plan for this tender proposal.
- To prepare approximate estimates of cost in the very early stages
of the formulation of a building project, giving advice on
alternative materials, components and types of construction and
assisting with feasibility studies.
- Cost planning and value analysis during the design stage of a
project to ensure that the client obtains the best possible value
for money, including adding value to property assets, preferably
having regard to total costs using life cycle costing techniques.
Costs should be distributed in the most realistic way throughout
the various sections or elements of the building and tender
figures should be kept within the client?s budget.
- To advising on the most appropriate form of building
procurement, having regard to the type of project, quality, speed
of construction, apportionment of risk and price certainty.
- To prepare the bills of quantities and other contract documents
relating to the project.
- Examine tenders and priced bills of quantities and reporting the
findings
Q&AINTERVIEW
ISITDIFFICULTTOBEAQS?
"In my opinion, it is not hard to be QS as long as you like your job.
However, you need to be meticulous, have good formatting and
tabulation skills. Not forgetting time management skills and most
importantly a QS must have favour in paperwork. It is similar to how a
college student will have to align their numerous
assignments/ projects properly so that they can manage them easily."
WHATARETHEMAINSKILLSTHATNEEDSTOBE
DEVELOPEDTOBECOMEASUCCESSFULQS?
"First of all, you will need to be efficient at meeting deadlines of
projects in which like I said, you need to have good time
management skills to allocate your work systematically. Not just that,
a QS must be good at figures and number as they will be quantifying
all the materials in buildings like calculating the amount of bricks
needed for a house, the number of cement bags used, the weight of
steel bars, the amount of timber required and etc. "
WHATWOULDBETHEMOTIVATIONFORASPIRING
QS'S?
"QS are high in demand in the construction industry so fresh
graduates can easily get a job to start off. Not forgetting they won?t
have to worry about money because QS will be paid decently even
when they just started off. "
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THANK
YOU
GROUPMEMBERS
TANTEEJANE
YEOHSINYUEN
YEWWINGKEE
KINGSLEYTHAM
TANYANJIE
ZACHARYOOI
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