SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND DESIGN

BACHELOR OF QUANTITY SURVEYING (HONOURS)

ASSIGNMENT
AUGUST 2017 SEMESTER

MODULE NAME : PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE I

MODULE CODE : QSB 60604
LECTURERS NAME : WONG CHONG WEI
: SR ANG FUEY LIN

A client from an established public listed company, Landowner WCW & AFL Berhad
wishes to build an extension of the Kuala Lumpur Twin Tower by developing a RM 1.2
billion hotel and shopping complex in the center of the Golden Triangle, Kuala Lumpur
with a construction period of five (5) years. All design consultants have been
appointed.
His requirements for the project are as follows:
He wishes to have full control of the design and able to introduce changes from
beginning till the completion.
He wants to ensure that all quality and Health & Safety requirements are
captured in the Contract and that there will be minimum variations to the
Contract Price during construction.
He wants the project to complete on time and imposed Liquidated Damages of
RM 250,000.00 a day.
He is not interested in the daily dealing with too many parties except the few key
members of the project.
Being a public listed company and thus accountable to other shareholders and
board of directors, he wants the selection process of the successful contractor
to be reasonably transparent. However, the selection process should be able to
eliminate potentially non-performing contractors.
As a consultant quantity surveyor, you have been invited to submit a proposal on the
best procurement, tendering and contract arrangement to meet all of the above
requirements if possible.
Give a presentation outlining the various proposed arrangements to your client
who is unfamiliar with the construction industry and making a final
recommendation based on reasoned argument on the best approach for this
prestigious Mega project.
 Date issued: 25 October 2017 (week 8)
To be presented on 24 November at 9.00am (Week 12)
Oral presentations should not be more than15 minutes long, 5 minutes for Q&A, 2
minutes for transition to the next presenter.
Visual aids should be used if at all possible. Presentation schedules will be strictly
enforced. A time keeper will inform you when your 15-minute presentation time has
ended.

NOTE: SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

The assignment is to be submitted in a report format and as such should have a
formal structure and layout. It should be presented as a neatly bound professional
document single sided. Length: should not exceed 3000 words for the task.

Requirements: all submissions should have a cover sheet identifying the module, the
date and the group students name. All submissions shall have a bibliography of
references and sources used in the preparation of the project. APA style of
referencing should be used.

Group reports must include the Peer Review from each member and collected by
the team lead and put into a sealed envelope, a description of the specific
contributions of the various members of the assignment group and an assessment of
the percentage contribution of each member.

If any student disagrees with their colleagues on the percentage allocation they have
been given, they may attach to the appendix of the group report, their argument as to
why they should receive a different allocation. Where the allocations are equal, all
students in the group will be awarded the total mark assessed for the report.
Students who make a less-than-equal contribution will be awarded a lower mark (as
judged by the lecturer on the basis of the students comments; for example, students
who make half the contribution of their colleagues will receive half the total mark for
the report).

Work must be submitted through Turnitin and a hard copy to the lecturer on or
before the due date.

Turnitin will be used to check the originality of the report. Similarity Index is 35%
maximum.