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Development Of Building Surveying Profession In Malaysia: Current State and Challenges
Vol.51 No.1 & 2 2016
standards. This has resulted in a Other 0 26.7 58.8 Female % (N=42)
lack of standardisation in term of 56.8.7 Male % (N=38)
subjects offered by universities. Building surveyor 5.8
5. Lack of response for professional Property valuer 0 13.3
membership: it was reported Site engineer 0
that, there were only 216 people 13.3
who are registered as members Quantity surveyor
of the BS Division of RISM Civil engineer 0 20
up until the end of 2006. This 172.07
number is only a fraction from Project executive 11.7
the number of BS graduates
from Malaysian universities. Contract executive 0
Findings from a Universiti
Teknologi MARA (UiTM) study 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
showed that there have been
535 BS graduates since the Figure 1: Gender of the Respondent and Job Title
introduction of the diploma and
bachelor degree programmes 12.5 6.2
in 1999 and 1995 respectively.
This scenario shows that Salary Range, Below RM2,000
many of the BS graduates have (N=80) Below RM3,001-RM4,000
failed to register with the BS Below RM2,001-RM3,000
Division of RISM (Abdâ€Rashid Below RM4,001-RM5,000
and Haniza, 2007). This weak
response and lack of enthusiasm 37.5 43.8
has contributed to both the
delay of the BS Act and lack of
recognition of the profession
from the public, government and
private sector.
6. Lack of promotion: the BS Figure 1: Salary Range for BS Graduates in Malaysia
profession was recognised by
the Malaysia Public Services and Subang Jaya Municipal was followed by interviews with
Department (JPA) in 1999. Council (SJMC) (Ahmad, 2003). selected respondents. The interviews
The service is placed under Without awareness within the provided feedback from respondents
the Scheme in Engineering government sector itself, it on the challenges faced by the BS
Classification (J), which has pay becomes even more difficult for profession and recommendations
scales, which are comparable BSs to gain recognition from the to overcome these challenges.
with other professional services industry. The questionnaire was divided
as recognised by government into three sections: Section A,
(Ahmad, 2003). However, 3.0 Survey on Building respondents particulars; Section
Abdâ€Rashid and Haniza (2007) Surveying graduates B, respondents’ perspective on the
noted that there has been BS profession regarding challenges
slow encouragement from A survey was carried out to faced by the BS profession using
government for state and investigate the employment trend a Likert scale which required the
local authorities to employ BS of BS graduates and identify the respondent to rate the significance
professionals. The BS post is challenges hampering the full of challenges ranging from 1 (least
only being offered in three local recognition and development of BS in significant) to 5 (very significant);
authorities (municipal and city Malaysia. The questionnaire survey and Section C, respondents opinion
councils) namely Petaling Jaya and recommendations on the BS
City Council (PJCC), Bentong
Municipal Council (BMC)
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