OVERVIEW

PKNS initially awarded the consultants from Surbana International Consultants (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd. The company had the Architects, C & S Engineers and M & E Engineers to start the design works for submission. After the final design works were completed, PKNS’s CEO, Datuk Othman Omar wanted to explore the Value Engineering exercise for the whole building structural elements and had the structural drawings re-designed to obtain more savings for the project. This was when Ir. Mohd. Fariz was engaged to work into this re-design work back in July 2012. The project was so large that the client decided to conduct wind tunnel testing in Canada in 2013 (see photo).

CHALLENGE

It was the single largest high-rise building (176m tall, 42 story high) to be re-designed based from another engineer’s design and Ir Fariz had a few months to do it. He had to find savings from both the foundation structure and super structure.

SOLUTION

Fortunately, Ir Fariz was already well versed with 3D Finite Element (FE) software since his days in Australia. This time he had used them to replace the initial pile and pile cap foundation design to his raft pile design method.

RESULT

PKNS accepted the structural VE design work and found around RM 20 million in structural cost savings.