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Professional Practice: Guideline for Quantity Surveyor Chapter 2

 Distributors of construction materials

 Distributors of construction equipment

Financial Institution

Financial institution directly involves in a construction process by providing
financial services to client or contractor. Present-day construction projects have

grown in magnitude and scope and therefore involve tremendous sum of money.
Invariably the owner/developer requires to borrow funds from banks and
other financial institutions to finance or provide adequate funding to their projects.
This also applies to contractor, manufacturers, importers and other material and

equipment suppliers. Many projects run into difficulties due to lack of funds and
inadequate financial planning. Example of financial institutions are banks.

Approving Authorities
A complete application from any individual or organization needs to be submitted

to the relevant local authority according to the stipulated rules and regulations.
Federal and state departments usually interested in matters regarding land, town

and country planning, drainage and irrigation, supply of public utilities, etc.
Local authority is normally the building authority and is therefore
entrusted with the power to approve layout plans, building plans, etc. Other

parties involve in evaluating and approving the submission are also TNB,
Telekom, JBA, JPS, IWK, Bomba etc.).

Manpower
The availability of sufficient manpower in quantity and quality to the contractor is
another factor that can determine the capacity and productivity of the industry.

The categories of manpower required are as follows:
a. Unskilled workers

 Unskilled workers are those who do not possess skill in any building
trades but are working on construction sites.
 They perform such basic function as carrying materials, clearing debris,

cleaning site offices and other general work as may be directed

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