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I have yet to receive the checklist from Mr. David, he said it takes sometime to get done as there are so many forms that the architect has to prepare. I think Mr. David has misunderstood what I am trying to ask for. I just need a list of all the required “sokongan” from the correspondent authorities, but not the paperworks or documents they need to submit to the authorities.

The Certificate of Fitness (CF) is an official document that is issued by the city’s authority to acknowledge that a building is safe to be occupied. I have searched through the internet and got some information about CF. I also called Mr. David to remind him about the checklist, I asked Mr. David about access road from Wang Soon site, and checked on the status of work progress.

The Certificate of Completion and Compliance (CCC) has been introduced since April 2007, and came into force effective by April 12, 2007. The CCC replaces the Certificate of Fitness Occupation (CFO) previously issued by the local authority (Pihak Berkuasa Tempatan, PBT). The CCC is issued by the project’s Principal Submiting Person (PSP, not PlayStation Portable) who is a professional Architect, Professional Enginner or Registered Building Draughtsman.

Then, why are we waiting for the CF instead of CCC? The reason is that CCC can only be issued for projects that have obtained their Building Plan Approvals after April 12, 2008. This is because under the new CCC system, a responsibility process matrix is introduced. Each construction process needs to be verified by professionals and contractors or trade contractors. Twenty-one stage certification forms need to be endorsed along the entire process. These are included as new schedules (Form Gs) under the revised UKBS 1984 (Amendment) 2007 (Uniform Building By-Laws). The list of all twenty-one stage certification forms shown as below:-

FORM G 1 Stage Certification : Earthworks
FORM G 2 Stage Certification : Setting Out
FORM G 3 Stage Certification : Foundations
FORM G 4 Stage Certification : Structural
FORM G 5 Stage Certification : Internal Water Plumbing
FORM G 6 Stage Certification : Internal Sanitary Plumbing
FORM G 7 Stage Certification : Internal Electrical
FORM G 8 Stage Certification : Fire-Fighting (Passive)
FORM G 9 Stage Certification : Fire-Fighting (Active)
FORM G 10 Stage Certification : Mechanical Ventilation
FORM G 11 Stage Certification : Lift/Escalator Installation
FORM G 12 Stage Certification : Building
FORM G 13 Stage Certification : External Water Supply System
FORM G 14 Stage Certification : Sewerage Reticulation
FORM G 15 Stage Certification : Sewerage Treatment Plant
FORM G 16 Stage Certification : External Electrical Supply System
FORM G 17 Stage Certification : Road and Drain
FORM G 18 Stage Certification : Street Lighting
FORM G 19 Stage Certification : External Main Drain
FORM G 20 Stage Certification : Telecommunication
FORM G 21 Stage Certification : Landscape

According to David, the stage certification of CCC and CF (or CFO) are more or less the same. But CCC endorsements are done by the professionals, but CF is by the local authority, the local authority is MPSJ for our case. Since we have had a meeting with En. Ismail, the Pengarah Perancangan Bandar of MPSJ, and he has said to us that the process of CF application can be completed within 2 weeks provided the developer meets all the requirements and completed the project according to the DO (Development Order), it sounds good for us and the developer too.

I am still waiting the CF application checklist from Mr. David, he said his architect needs sometime to prepare it. He said we can refer to the CCC checklist for the time being. I am fine with it as their main priority is not to please us by showing us what they are going to do, but to chase their time to complete everything the soonest. Therefore, we will refer to the CCC stage certification list until Bukit Ikhlas’s architect has got the proper list for us, even so, we can call up Bukit Ikhlas to check the status of the CF process regularly, I will check with either David or Kenneth on this from time to time, and update you guys here.

According to David, they will start submitting the first form which is the “soft-scape” by the third week of October, but he is pushing the architect to get it done by mid of October. The “soft-scape” is something like grass and trees as what David told me. He said there are about fourteen endorsements in CF, it is not as many as twenty-one in CCC. He said the rest of the endorsements are from Syabas, Indah Water, the Fire Department, also for the “hard-scape” such as the roads and drains, and a few more which he can’t remember.

He also said that TNB has just got all the underground-cabling done in the site. Now, their workers have to clean up the sites before tarmac repavement starts as the digging work for laying cables by TNB had caused the whole site very messy. You can see this in Chafoo’s photos.

In one of the previous entry, I did mention that it looked as if we are getting a twin double-lane access road connecting to Wang Soon site. I was wrong, it has been confirmed by Mr. David that it is a one lane road for each direction instead of something like I what illustrated here.

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I reillustrated the Wang Soon access road after the getting clarification from Mr. David. It is a two-single-lane road instead of a two-double-lane as I mentioned previously.

Reference links:-
1. MPSJ Perakuan Siap & Permatuhan (CCC)
2. Board of Architects Malaysia (Lembaga Arkitek Malaysia, LAM)
3. The Association of Consulting Engineers Malaysia (ACEM)

I spoke to Mr David of Bukit Ikhlas today on the progress. Surprisingly he is no longer mentioning the development of the project, instead we are talking about CF application or when we will get the CF. Can you imagine how soon we can move in to our new house? I would say very soon, very very soon…

The last issue that we had is on the access road, and thankfully it has been sorted out and we are ready for CF. The solution is to open an entrance at Court 15 to directly access to Bukit Ciri, this will be the first access road. We will have other access roads in the near future for our convenience such as access through Sun Garden and Wang Soon site. I have uploaded a layout plan with the location of the new guardhouse to please your curiosity, check it out:-

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The new guard house is expected to be located next to Court 15, northwest of Bayan Villa.

This gives you an idea where Bukit Ciri is.

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