CHAPTER 5 : FINDING AND RECOMMENDATIONS

While undergoing a 20 weeks of industrial training at PERUNDING NFL SDN. BHD., there are a lot of new knowledge that I have learnt, regardless of the knowledge which related to our respective course or the knowledge for office management itself. With the implication of industrial training, students get to experience the real nature of working environment. This enable students to instill certain a certain quality in them and can reduce nervousness. Other than that, by implementing industrial training, students were able to adapt oneself with problems that often faced by every employee, this will enable students to become more mature and can carry out the duty that was given to them with the best efforts. Everything that has been learned by the students while undergoing the industrial training will be useful to them when they reach their working days later in their life .

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Apart from that, there are also a few matters that need to be improved by either the Polytechnic or the firm or the company itself. Among the improvements that can be suggested are : 1. Implement the usage of English Language during lecture in class. The usage of English language is very important when working in the field that revolved around development because most of the business deals were carried out using English language. Most of the Polytechnic students are unskilled in speaking in English. For example, business meetings were usually carried out by using English language. So, to student that less skilled in that particular language, the matter of discussions in the meetings will not be understood by the students. This will affect the students learning experience. I hope that the management of the Polytechnic will stress more on the English language usage among students.

2. The managements of Polytechnic especially UPLI (Unit Perhubungan Dan Latihan Industri ) should hold more visits to the place where trainees who were undergoing the industrial training as often as 2 or 3 times along the 20 weeks of training to monitor their development and to ensure that students are always on the watch and monitored at all time.

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3. The firm were supposed to understand students more. What does it mean by understand students more is that the firm should not give the student any work that they do not know without giving any guidance on how to do the work correctly and leave the students to figure it out by him/herself. This is because sometimes, the work that had been given was yet to be learned by the students, so, they need some guidance first before they can start working on the task that were given to them.

Generally, by undergoing industrial training, students has been given a valuable experience and the understanding on the relationship between what they had learned theoretically with what they need to do practically. However, during this industrial training period also, the students had been given the opportunity to adapt themself with new discovery that usually are not learnt at polytechnic.

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CHAPTER 6 : CONCLUSION

After undergoing a 20 weeks of industrial training at PERUNDING NFL SDN. BHD., there are a lot of new knowledge that can be learned and I get to understand altogether on how this firm plays an important role in industrial field, especially in Quantity Surveying. Exposure that have been given to me by PNFL Sdn Bhd staff about the working and technical aspect is a very meaningful knowledge to me in order to prepare my self before stepping into the real work environment on the upcoming days. I hope with the implication of the Industrial Training, there will be no more anomalous feelings when the students started working after they have finished their course later. The staff at PNFL SDN. BHD. Are very helpful. They gave me a lot of exposure on the terms of reference and procedures related to the process of preparing tender, contract document, variation order and ect. Other than that, the exposure on site visit, meeting atmosphere and so on also give a useful knowledge to me.

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Exposure that were given to me at this firm can provide the picture on a real life situation, the task and responsibility that would be carried by some people on the field. Lastly, students involvement in industrial training like this can prove and further strengthen student's identity in undergoing training in technical field, in the same time making Politeknik as practical platform of education. Apart from that, the format report that needs to be done by students after undergoing industrial training also can train each of the student in preparing a technical report that is complete, compact and in a right order that can be made as an important knowledge when they face a real situation later. This is fit with the Polytechnic objective that is to produce a workforce that are high in quality and partially professional in this country.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Ahamad Abdullah. January 1 (2009) - Professional Practice III (QSM 659). Department of Quantity Surveying. 2. Standard Form Of Contract P.W.D. Form 203A (Rev.2007) Government Of Malaysia (2007) 3. En Zulkarnain Ayop Perunding NFL Senior QS.

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ATTACHMENT

Wisma NFL (PNFL Office)

Picture 1 - PNFL Office of JB Branch

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Contract Document

Picture 2 - Example of Contract Document (Drawing)

Picture 3 - Example of Contract Document (BQ)

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Site Valuation

Picture 4 - QS with Contractor (Site Valuation)

Picture 5 - Site Plan

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Picture 6 - Site Valuation Location

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