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MoA to construct highway on peat soil signed by CREAM, LLM

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EXCHANGE of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Centre of Research Excellence Construction on Peat Soil (CoPS) Director, Ir Dr Zuhairi Abdul Hamid (right) and Chief Executive Officer of Geo Crete Specialist Sdn Bhd, Dato Sri Abdul Aziz Hassan (second left) witnessed by Minister of Works, Dato Sri Fadillah Yusof (centre). PHOTO: YUSUF SHUKRI
EXCHANGE of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Centre of Research Excellence Construction on Peat Soil (CoPS) Director, Ir Dr Zuhairi Abdul Hamid (right) and Chief Executive Officer of Geo Crete Specialist Sdn Bhd, Dato Sri Abdul Aziz Hassan (second left) witnessed by Minister of Works, Dato Sri Fadillah Yusof (centre). PHOTO: YUSUF SHUKRI

KUCHING: A Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) was signed between the Construction Research Institute of Malaysia (CREAM) and Malaysia Highway Board (LLM) yesterday.

The agreement was to undertake a Research and Development (R&D) effort to develop a solution on constructing highways on peat soil with a project called the Development of Foam Concrete (FV) and Eco Raft Pile (ERP). Through the MoA, a grant will be channeled to the Centre of Research Excellence Construction on Peat Soil (CoPS) who will manage the R&D.

CoP Salso signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Geo Crete Specialist Sdn Bhd, a local construction company that has the expertise in road construction and soil stabilization. Minister of Works, Dato Sri Fadillah Yusof was present to witness both motions held at Imperial Hotel here yesterday.

In his speech, Fadillah said that if the output of the research is successful, it will be beneficial not only to Malaysia, but to the world at large.

“We want to set an internationally recognized method of overcoming problems faced by contractors and developers with peat soils in the most economical and time efficient way possible. “Here in Sarawak, we are constantly faced with this problem of constructing roads on peat soil.

Hence, it is only right for Sarawak to be the case study of constructing the trial embankment that will be undertaken soon,” he stressed.

Fadillah further stated that the research will be conducted in three segments which are FC that will be developed by Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), while the ERP will be developed by the Drainage and Irrigation Department (DID) and its technical aspects undertaken by the Works Department. “The project will take about two years.

We estimate that it would be completed by the end of 2019,” said Fadillah. He also called on other industry players in Sarawak to work together with CoPS to find a solution on construction on peat soil.

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