LEARNING KEY OUTCOME

At the end of the training course, participants should be able to:
1.    Understand  the basis to determine the cold water storage demand and size the transfer pump accordingly
2.    Select the suitable type of pumping system to meet the water usage requirements namely direct, variable speed drive, pneumatic tank
3.    Select the piping material amongst the many choices of plastic and metal
4.    Calculate the piping size for cold water in accordance to the BS6700 standard methodology of Loading Units
5.    Take preventive measures to minimize the impact of water hammer to the pipe lines by way of design and selection of the right equipment
6.    Determine the stack size of Soil, Waste, Vent (SWV) using Discharge Unit methodology and understand the constraints impose on branch discharge pipe in particular on the gradient to minimize blockage
7.    Observant of poorly installed plumbing and SWV systems which are preventable. Solutions to overcome smelly toilets.


Note: Participants are required to bring along a scientific calculator to work on the case studies and the SPAN Uniform Technical Guidelines (draft) deliberated.


SPEAKER

Ir. Gary Lim Eng Hwa
BE(Mech.) NZ, Mgt Dip. FIEM, P.Eng, Asean Eng.

Ir Gary Lim is an experienced and qualified Professional Engineer with over 20 years of manufacturing experience in these areas; Industrial Engineering (Work Study), Project Management, Maintenance, Production and Factory Management. The 20 years of his work spanned over various industries namely industrial chemicals, diary products, jam, sauces, chocolates, confectionnaires, industrial gases (liquid nitrogen, oxygen, argon, etc), blow moulding of plastic containers and paint manufacturing (highly fire hazardous). In the diary industry involved in the design of Clean-In-Place (CIP) system of the process pipings.

His last 11 years of his working experience was with a multinational insurance company where he received further training in the area of Fire Engineering from an insurer perspective, started as the Risk Engineer and retired as the Risk Manager of the MNC insurer.  He attended a course from HSB Industrial Risk Insurers at Hartford, United States of America  on the Implementing The Concepts of Industrial Fire Control in August 1998. He also attended The Insurance School (Non-Life) of Japan Advance Course on Risk Management in year 2008 and was presented a Diploma.

Gary had conducted numerous risk management surveys of various industries from wafer plant to power plants. Currently, a  council member and committee member of the Building Services Technical Division and member of the Fire Advisory Board of the Institution of Engineers, Malaysia. He has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand and a Management Diploma from New Zealand Institute of Management. He is a Professional Engineer registered with the Board of Engineers, Malaysia and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM).  He spoke in many public seminars both for the insurance industry, Malaysia Fire Protection Association and the Institution of Engineers, Malaysia.

Currently, he conducts courses regularly on the concepts and design in the area of Fire Engineering and Plumbing Engineering at all the IEM branches in Malaysia. He also conducts courses with Malaysia Institute of Insurance on these topics: The Art of Property Underwriting Profitabily and Essence of Survey Report; Applying Fire Engineering Knowledge in Property Survey and Loss Control; Enterprise Risk Management & Business Continuity Management. He is an active member in number of SIRIM Work Group in drawing up Malaysian Standards on plastic pipes.