Construction Law (QSB 4414)

This module introduce and provide a basic understanding of principle of construction law. It also provides an overview of construction and contractual responsibilities of a Quantity Surveyor in the construction industry from the inception stage to the final account stage. It focus on the importance of a clear understanding of the organization and contract administration of quantity surveying practices and the legal and contractual procedures in relation to construction industry.

Besides, we are required to prepare a seminar presentation in tutorial section. For the group assignment, we attended a 2 days seminar of FIDIC Contract by Ms. Eugune Lip, director of Davis Langdon KPK in Singapore. Ms. Eugene Lip is a very experience people on FIDIC. She gave a clear explanation and easy for us to understand about the FIDIC Contract. On the second day we prepared a presentation of the answer from the question given by Ms. Engune Lip a day before. Actually, I attended Ms. Eugene Lip FIDIC Contract talk in Semester 5. At that moment, I still do not really understand about the FIDIC Contract. After attend the seminar 2 times, I believe I have enough understanding on this FIDIC Contract. 

Cost Value Engineering (QSB 4215)

This module introduce  the history, background, theories, concepts and principles of value engineering / value management in decision making process. The module also give an idea of unnecessary cost and cost cutting exercise in the cost planning and control stage. The module concludes with a series of discussion on the problem and constraint in the implementation stage based on some significant case studies.

Upon successful completion of this module, I able to identify the appropriate time to carry out Value Engineering throughout different construction phases, recognise and recall the contribution of the value engineering /value management in the development process, apply the value management to a value outcome in the decision making process and analyse the cost and value implications of project scope .and generate a Job-Plan for the implementation of Value Management workshop.

From group assignment, we learn how to implement the vm study into a project. The group as a VM team with a leader. The opinion or idea that brainstorming by the group member will be discussed and check the suitability to apply on the project. All the group members is very important in the team. 

Development Economic (QSB 4224)

This module introduce me, let me more understand on property development in the market. It is initiated with the introduction of the process in a property development and factors that influence the development process. The subject also covers various techniques of development appraisal and source of finance available. It is then concluded with the important of market research to the overall development process and its impact of research to the development.

Upon successful completion of this module, I able to calculate the developer’s budget (i.e. total development cost and gross development value) during the initial development process, execute the Cost-benefit Analysis in the early stage of investment proposal and valuation system to help on decision making during the feasibility stage and classify various source of finance available in the construction industry and to outline the requirement in a quality market research.

Research Dissertation (QSB 4924)

Research Dissertation is continuous module from the Research Methodology from previous semester. Besides, it also continue the research study from the previous semester. The title I selected is "Investing Opportunities of Green Building by Developers in Malaysia". In semester 5, we wrote introduction and literature review. This semester, we continues with research methodology, data analysis and conclusion. The most interesting part are preparing questionnaire and analysing the questionnaire from respondents. In additional, we also required to prepare research paper for lecturer to select the best paper to be presented in 2016. 

Project Management (QSB 4424)

Project management is a module which covered about roles, duties, responsibility of project manager, planning and budgeting for a  project, arrange the work schedule for a project, monitoring and controlling of a project, resources allocation and etc.

For group assignment, we are required to proposed a building on 1200m2 land based on Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) basic for 20 years. The proposed project are required to make minimum spend on the building and make maximum profit for the client. For individual assignment, we required to prepare a project work schedule including critical path, network diagram and gantt chart using Microsoft Project. I believe this module may useful and guiding me become a successful manager in the future.