260 Units Rumah Selangorku, Semenyih

Scope of works

Electrical, plumbing, fire protection and infrastructure services design.

Technical particulars

Units

260 units

What this kind of commission involves

Residential and township work is engineering at volume. A detail that is merely inconvenient on one house becomes a warranty programme across six hundred. The value is in getting the repeated unit exactly right, then holding that standard across every phase — and in the site-wide infrastructure that has to serve phases which will not be built for another five years.

Disciplines engaged

• Repeated unit services design — the detail that gets built hundreds of times
• Cold water storage, boosting and internal distribution
• Sanitary plumbing, soil, waste, vent and below-ground drainage
• Electrical supply, metering position, distribution boards and earthing
• Site-wide HV and LV reticulation, substations and feeder pillars
• Street lighting design, lighting levels and control
• Fire protection for high-rise and community buildings
• Community facilities — surau, clubhouse, management office services
• Telecommunications and ICT provision to each unit
• Authority submissions, utility applications and phase-by-phase certification

What we watch for

The failures that recur on this building type, and where we look for them.

• A repeated detail approved without a mock-up, then multiplied by six hundred
• Infrastructure sized for the current phase only, stranding later phases
• Utility application lead times not reflected in the sales launch programme
• Below-ground drainage clashing with ground beams because it was never modelled

The following describes the standard engineering scope for this sector. The specific scope of any individual commission is set by its brief and contract.

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