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INTERVIEW
The Malaysian Surveyor

Q&A

RISM and Its Future

What are your visions and expectations
Q.for RISM and its members?
RISM now has about 11,000 members. It shows RISM
is relevant to those practising as surveyors in the built
environment. The public is becoming increasingly aware
of our “Sr’ title which is officially registered with under
the Trade Marks Act. RISM members need to continue
being relevant and proud of our “Sr” title. However,
we must remember the professional responsibilities
that come with it. We must ensure that we have high
competency standards and a code of conduct that the
public can respect.

RISM must also be relevant to the public and be the
centre of excellence in surveying. We can offer services
to the public and industry through our RISM Academy.
We have a Centre for Knowledge Enhancement and a
Center for Competency Enhancement. We can do more
programs through these centres. Recently our Board
of Building Management has done a lot of enhanced
renovation works to enhance our Bangunan Juruukur.
We have the capacity and resources to conduct courses
at RISM.
We recently signed a memorandum of corporation with
statutory bodies such as our Property Surveyors with
Jabatan Penilaian dan Perkhidmatan Harta Malaysia
(JPPH) and our Building Surveyors with NIOSH. All
Figure 1: The President with his Generals
our previous cooperation and collaboration are now
formalised into a structured working framework in areas
of research, training, education and data information.
We will build on our different strengths and resources
for the benefit of the public, the profession and the
In this respect, we aim country.
to be the centre for RISM must be in line with our vision, continue to provide

construction information quality, value-added and comprehensive service to the
industry. In this respect, we aim to be the centre for
and provide advisory construction information and provide advisory services
on construction economics. We are achieving this with
services on construction the setting up of Building Cost Information Services
economics. Malaysia Sdn Bhd (BCISM) in conjunction with CIDB
where the public can download construction cost
information such as construction cost benchmark,
tender price index and construction material prices.
BCISM will also provide training services, cost
consultation and perhaps even extending to publishing
construction economic reports.
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