Course Overview

This course will improve understanding in the following areas:

•  Understand the contractual requirement of the site
•  Define the scope of works
•  Prepare strategies for completion of works
•  Manage safety and health of workers and public at the site
•  Review existing site conditions
•  Carry out the quality assurance and compliance plan
•  Requirements of engineering survey
•  Ensure proper communication and documentation
•  Administer project control and scheduling
•  Site safety, health and environmental requirements

Course Format

The course consists of classroom presentations. Participants are encouraged to actively engage in discussions.

For online class, the participants are required to switch on their camera for verification purposes any time requested.


Biodata of Facilitator

1) Ir. Faizal A. Sanusi

Ir. Faizal A. Sanusi has served the Project Management Technical Division in IEM since 2005, including as its chairman in 2012. He has a BSc in Civil Engineering from the George Washington University, USA in 1988 and an MBA from Open University, Malaysia in 2005. His engineering and project management experience spans across the oil & gas and building industry since he began his career 30 years ago. In his career, he has performed various roles ranging from design engineer, resident engineer, project engineer, project manager and project advisor for a myriad of engineering projects – civil Infrastructure works, commercial buildings including an intelligent office institutional building, gas processing plants, offshore gas pipeline installations and offshore gas producing platforms. He also challenged himself as an entrepreneur in the business of facilities management for oil and gas on-shore installations and has provided trainings in various project management topics to the Royal Malaysian Navy and private commercial property developers.

Some of his notable career highlights as follows:
1.    Senior Vice President/ Head of Technical Advisory, Bank Pembangunan Malaysia Bhd
2.    Project Advisor and Project Services Manager for Oil & Gas Exploration & Production MNCs
3.    Project Services Division Head for a local Offshore Oil & Gas Service Provider
4.    Project Manager for the Malaysian Securities Commission 4 star intelligent building project
5.    Director of a local Facilities Management company overseeing Oil & Gas O&M projects

Ir. Faizal has used the MS Project software since it was launched in the DOS version in the early 1990s when he was a young project engineer in PETRONAS and has been using its many iterations since then. His keen interest in the use of this software resulted in him being an internal trainer in the use of this software to PETRONAS at that time.

Ir. Faizal is now employed as the Technical Advisory Head of Bank Pembangunan Malaysia Bhd (BPMB) providing in-house technical advisory services on Malaysian development projects funded/facilitated by BPMB.

Apart from his interest and passion in Project Management is computer programming coding in Python where he indulges his time in creating  microapps and AI research for Project Management applications.


2) Ir. Gunasagaran Kristnan

Ir. Gunasagaran Kristnan graduated from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan USA with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Civil Engineering) in 1984. He obtained his Professional Engineer status in 1990. He also a Fellow member of IEM and Honorary Fellow of AFEO.

He had experience as a Road Contractor for over 35 years and Civil Engineering consultant.

He was also the Past Honorary Secretary of IEM, Excomm and Council Member, Past Chairman of HTETD, a Certified IBS Trainer by CIDB, Certified MYscessm trainer by CIDB and Working group Committee member of CIDB on the conversion of MYscessm to MS Civil engineering standard of measurement.

Experience in civil construction work: building, factory, resist one retaining wall system and structural design works.

He is also specialised in Special interest Civil Engineering Contract, Adjudication and Arbitration, Geotechnical, Pavement and Transportation, IBS.


NOTE:
* HRD Corp Claimable Course: Applying
* 3 Saturdays course = 10 May 2025, 17 May 2025 and 24 May 2025 (subject to changes)*
* Closing date for Registration:  8 May 2025