I was away today to Tawau to attend the progress meeting of a project that has been on-going for the last 40 months and is still only 95% completed. It was supposed to be 22 months but delayed and delayed and delayed for a further 18 months. From the look of it, we are likely going to be stuck with it for another 2 more months!
The annoying thing is that a RM36m project is run by 1 man only. He is trained as a QS but has to also assume the roles of project manager, site engineer, QS, purchasing man, foreman, liaison man, finance man all in one. He is a nice chap but the work load is just too much for him to handle. It is really ridiculous. The sad thing about some of Malaysian contractors is that they hope to make maximum profit with minimum overhead and management cost! So far, this is the kind of scenario we see in Sabah. Not very promising as far as construction industry is concerned.
We had a fairly hard drilling on him in the meeting and hoped that he could at last get his act together and mobilise whatever resources within his grasp and finish the project once and for all by the end of March.
All of us want to move on from this project which has been dragging on far too long. Wish me luck!
2 comments:
Try working in Australia with militant union members.The railway construction company is having lots of problems at the moment. The constract specified "no strike" so workers are sick with "flu",they stopped work when temp is 37 degree but now it is going to be 29 degree. Some union can hold the construction company to ransom. Union is important to workers' right and I support the concept; but I do not support unreasonable demand which not just delay the project; but also painted Australia as a very "Lazy" country......So..count yourself LUCKY!!!
I don't think I can ever get used to a place where employers are at the mercy of workers. I believe in reasonable and fair-minded employers and employees in order to have conducive working environment.
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