بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيْم
Salam Syawal,
My mistakes in this posting is of my own.
Allah SWT is Perfection.
I only have the best of intentions. The opinion put forth here is personal.
All that are beneficial comes only from Allah SWT.
SubhanAllah Walhamdulillah.
For submitting persons defined under the latest amendment of the SBDA 1974, the submitting engineer shall be a Professional Engineer with Practicing Certificate (PE-PC). After the amendment 2015 of the REA came into effect.
The copy i'm referring to is the edition As of 10th March 2020 (which i believe is the most current - as far as the amendments under Act 133), where it says
"qualified person" means a Professional Architect, Professional Engineer or building draughtman registered under any written law relating to the registration thereof
i'm hoping that the Act shall be amended to replace Professional Engineer with Professional Engineer with Practicing Certificate.
this is how i understand the role of a Professional Engineer with respect to the REA 1967 - Amendment 2015.
He/She can submit plans
He/She can also submit drawings
He/She can submit plans to any person
He/She can also submit plans to any authority (authority given the power under Street Building and Drainage Act 1974, or any other acts that are related to the practice of engineering in Malaysia).
if you work out the 'or's in the clauses, inshaAllah you'll get the idea.
What drawings and what plans?
in relation to the equipment or a plant or a specialized product
which is invented OR sold by him OR his employer
but the employer cannot be a client.
imagine the following scenario :-
Hexagon who is working for a company that specializes in the design and build of a district cooling plant (notice the 'design and build' and relate that to 'fit-for-purpose').
Hexagon is an employee. the company is his employer. In this case, the company is the one selling the product, which is a design-and-build district cooling plant.
The plans or drawings related to the design of the chiller plant, which is deemed fit-for-purpose is to be submitted to an authority which issues a 'receipt and denial' letter, similar to the one issue by Air Selangor, whereby the design and build responsibility lies solely with Hexagon, which probably being the only Professional Engineer in the company.
He could even be the Managing Director of the company. Well, still an employee to a sendirian berhad company, which has shareholders.
Although i'm not into district cooling design-and-built, i can say that the scenario above is plausible, though i have yet to find out from a friend who is in this industry - matters pertaining to authority submission when it comes to DCS.
So, there's a use for Hexagons after all.
SubhanAllah. Walhamdulillah.
Wassalam,
FbI
As we enter or stride into true professionalism in Engineering profession, what you wrote is most apt. We should have disposed off the crutch to realise the 2015 ammendment. The crutch was only meant to give confidence to our up and coming professionals to compete in the world. Now we have passed the 2020 milestone which was supposed to mark our place in the world. Hence the crutch must now be relegated to the museum as a lesson, not drooled over as a child looking at the ice cream.
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