With Best Compliments from - BQSM

1. Practise without a permit from the Board
Best Practice Corner
LESSONS LEARNED
3. Good Practice
• A Registered QS practice was found practising
without a permit from the Board and receiving fees
for the services rendered during the period when his
registration expired or when he was suspended.
• To verify whether the QS is practicing without a permit
request from one of his clients, documents such as
interim valuations or variation orders or statement of
final accounts, which bear the signature of the QS. The
date of the letter of appointment or memorandum of
agreement signed between the QS practice and the
Client will confirm whether they were appointed during
the period of their suspension.
• Lesson learned: keep tab of your expiry date of
registration with the Board or if you have been
suspended for some reason, make sure the suspension
period has passed before you accept a new job.
2. Complaints must be supported by proper
documents
• Complaints against a Registered QS must be supported
by proper documents or else they will not be considered
valid. The respondent or the person being subjected to
the complaint must also gather proper and relevant
documents to rebut or refute the allegation .
(i) Preliminaries section to be itemized
• Good practice by QS is reflected by the degree of
details of documents prepared. There was a case
of a mega project where the QS did not itemize the
Preliminaries works but allowed the tenderers to insert
a percentage of the costs of works for the Preliminaries.
(ii) Final Accounts to be based on As-Built Drawings
• Very often as-built drawings are not available when we
start the preparation of the final accounts. Do we just
use the construction drawings and hopefully nobody
object?
• This is not professional and should be avoided
• If accounts have to be prepared by a certain deadline
and you only have an up-to-date set of construction
drawings, which you can confidently use as a basis,
then you may proceed. However, do insert a clause
qualifying yourself for using those drawings in lieu of
the pending as-built drawings.
• If the parties involved are willing to wait for the as-built
drawings, then you should defer the closure of the
accounts. This should be our preference so that there
will not be any disputes on the final accounts.
Prepared by: Dato’ Sr Nik Farid Kamil.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Book : Joint Ventures in
Construction
Author : Dr Khairuddin Abdul
Rashid, George Ofori and
Stephen Ogunlana
Publisher : Thomas Telford Ltd
ISBN No. : 9780727736512
Synopsis:
Contractual relationships in international joint venture projects can be
affected by different cultural foundations, language barriers, political
sensitivities, and the uncertainties and risks involved throughout the
life of a construction project. Joint Ventures in Construction is the
selected proceedings of a series of international conferences on
multinational joint venture contracting for construction works, held
each year since 2005. The wide range of chapters contained in the
book offer a timely and international perspective on joint ventures
and partnering in construction projects, and provides a unique
reference to readers requiring state-of-the-art information on both
theoretical research and empirical practices in the field.
1. QS International Convention 2010 (QSIC)
Date : 12th and 13th October 2010
Venue
: Grand Dorsett Regency, Subang Hotel
2. Essential for Professionals 2010
Date : 26 October 2010
Venue
: Kuala Lumpur
Who should attend : Principals, Partners, and Directors of Professional Practices.
The registration form can be downloaded from the website www.bqsm.gov.my.
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