KUALA LUMPUR: Sime Darby Property Bhd (SDP), the property division of Sime Darby Group Bhd, has won 13 quality building awards at the Quality Assessment System in Construction (QLASSIC) Excellence Award 2017, making it the most awarded developer at the event.
SDP was awarded for its various products in townships such as Bandar Bukit Raja, City of Elmina, Bandar Ainsdale and Nilai Impian.
The awards included a commercial development in Ara Damansara by its subsidiary Sime Darby Brunsfield.
"This honour is indeed a motivation for us to continually deliver products that are of the highest quality and standards to our customers," SDP chief operating officer Datuk Wan Hashimi Albakri said in a statement yesterday.
SDP was among high-achieving developers and contractors of 43 projects which received awards for quality and excellence during the event which was organised by Construction Industry Development Board.
CIDB also presented SDP with a special appreciation award at the ceremony, the QLASSIC Excellence Awards 2017 for being the developer with the most wins.
The QLASSIC is a system or method to measure and evaluate the workmanship quality of a building construction work based on the Construction Industry Standard (CIS 7:2006).
It enables the quality of workmanship between construction projects to be objectively compared through a scoring system.
QLASSIC assessments are carried out through site inspection and is based on the principles of first time inspection.
Construction works that are rectified after an assessment will not be reassessed.
The objective of this principle is to encourage the contractor to "Do Things Right the First Time and Every Time".
“We implement strict internal quality measures to complement the external assessment by CIDB through QLASSIC.
"These awards further highlight the outstanding efforts by the Sime Darby Property team, whose hard work and commitment has produced exceptional results despite a challenging market environment,” Wan Hashimi said.
SDP’s QLASSIC results have shown tremendous improvements year on year, such as the reduction of non-compliance at the structural construction stage as well as a decrease in defects per unit.
QLASSIC is one of the final stages in SDP’s product quality assessment system, following its own stringent internal assessments.