NAME: MUHAMMAD AKMAL HAKIM BIN ZAIDI

MATRIC NO: AF160092

SECTION: 3

1. Identify at least 3 parties who involve in the M&E design procurement. Provide the roles and
responsibilities of each party.

a) M&E consulting engineer

- Commence the design contribution during the concept and outline scheme design stages with
the specialist contractor during detailed.

- Constrained to a large extent in their design input by the rapid advances in technology and
onset of fee competition design.

- Generalised knowledge of the huge variety of systems available e.g. lifts, fire alarms,
sprinklers, IT & communications, environmental & energy control systems etc.

b) Suppliers & manufacturers

- Provide an element of design detailing

- Looking towards the development of the next generation of plant and equipment.

c) M&E specialist installers (contractors)

- Comprises a performance specification containing separately designed packages which suit

the individual specified plant and equipment.

- Developing prefabrication facilities to maintain competitive advantage.

2. List down (at least 3) impacts of late inclusion of M&E design in construction project.

- Rise to an industry dominated by price rather than value and by initial price rather than actual
price.

- Rise of the management contracting system has been cited as a further underlying cause of
difficulty.

- The management contractor has lost the ability to manage construction works due to the
remoteness of the management team from the work.

3. Identify the advantages of early involvement of M&E contractor in project design phase.

- Lead to cost and time savings.

- Smoothing out the co-ordination and integration problems identified earlier although no
authoritative research has been undertaken to show this.

- Improved working relationships between the various parties involved combined with a desire to
find solutions rather than problems.

- Reduces confrontational posturing and allows all parties to fully participate in what should be
everyone's ultimate aim - fulfilling client requirement.