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