KTMB Double Track Project, Malaysia
The new 329 km long electrified double track infrastructure and systems was planned, designed and constructed by MMC Gamuda JV (MGJV) and was built over the period 2008 to 2014.
It was part of MGJV’s contract to have a proper operation and maintenance programme prepared and handed over to the operator, KTMB. JTK Consult was appointed as a consultant to prepare the technical maintenance manuals for the civil and structural elements for all the assets and facilities.
The new assets and facilities included the land viaducts, marine viaducts, Prai Swing Bridge, tunnels, all other civil works and earth retaining structures, stations, depots, staff quarters and sewage treatment plants.
JTK produced 8 no maintenance manuals for each type of facility and this included inspection procedures identification of the key intervention needs, procedures for escalation to special inspection and reporting.
A series of training programmes to the MGJV and KTMB staff were organised to ensure the manuals were understood. The basic investigation knowledge and tools required for effective on-going maintenance was provided as part of the training delivery.
Ipoh to Padang Besar
MMC Gamuda JV
2013
Facilites Management:
facilities and asset management with the development of a manual and training
Datuk Ir Joseph M Rajaratnam :
Board Director
Datuk Ir Rajaratnam has over 50 years of experience in the engineering industry. He has worked in Malaysia and South Africa holding senior management positions in Jabatan Telekom Malaysia, Telekom Malaysia Berhad and Telkom South Africa respectively over the period August 1964 to June 2002. He was instrumental in establishing and developing staff training facilities and programmes for Telkom South Africa and while at Telekom Malaysia was intimately involved in developing new infrastructure facilities including buildings to house the growing Telcom business.
Since joining JTK Consult as Director, he has used his in depth understanding of the built environment garnered over several years of management and implementation of construction projects throughout Malaysia in supporting the JTK consultancy. Besides overseeing JTK projects, he also undertakes peer reviews and acts as a critique to ensure that our projects are not only delivered to the highest standards but also are appropriate for the requirements at hand and are technically sound.
Dr Kribanandan : Managing Director
Dr Kribanandan has a keen interest in design, materials technology and forensics in civil engineering. He has, over the years, built a wealth of knowledge and experience in value engineering, construction and technical risk management, concrete technology, forensic engineering, the appropriate use of NDT diagnostic tools, undertaking durability assurance audits and design life prediction for an entire spectrum of buildings and civil structures. He also often acts as an expert in dispute resolution.
Starting his career with Taylor Woodrow in the UK, he then spent three years in southern Africa working as a consultant to the Botswana Technology Centre where he focused on harnessing alternative and appropriate technologies for design and construction including considerations in Rain water harvesting, Ferro cement technology, Earth construction, and Passive solar design in projects ranging from housing and office buildings to product development for construction.
He returned to Malaysia in 1993 as technical manager and then director of Taywood Engineering, a subsidiary of Taylor Woodrow, covering Singapore and Malaysia. He was responsible for setting up and developing Taylor Woodrow’s unique Design and Technology consultancy in Malaysia and in this capacity delivered projects over a wide geographic area including in the UK, Middle East, Hong Kong, Australia, Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia. In 2001, following a management buyout, Taywood Engineering merged with JTK Consult and he assumed the role of managing director.
He is a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers (MICE) UK and a member of the Institution of Engineers Malaysia (MIEM). He represented Malaysia in the ISO Committee TC59/SC14 on Design Life of Buildings and chaired the local committee spearheading the implementation of this new standard. He was the founding president of the American Concrete Institute KL Chapter and has been on the steering committee for the conference series on durability of building materials and components (DBMC) which is held every 3 years since the 10th DBMC in 2007. He has published extensively and is the author of over 250 Technical Reports in various aspects of engineering.