Congratulations to Miss Chooi Yan Wei, Third Year Urban and Regional Planning Student who has been selected for the International College Student Exchange Programme between ASEAN and Republic of Korea. This project is a project of cooperation between the AUN and Daejeon University. She and 16 other students from various Asean universities will spend 2 semesters at Daejon University.
– The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Accreditation –
Following the accreditation visit by the evaluation panel on the 16 February 2006, The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has accredited the B.QS (Hons) and BSc (Hons) in Construction Programmes for the 2004-2008 academic year. Both programmes are conducted by the Department of Quantity Surveying, Faculty of Built Environment.
In line with the above recognition, the RICS Education Development manager for the Asia Pacific region, Mr. Nick Hudson and the RICS Malaysian representative Madam Oh have visited the department on the 17th January 2007 to meet up with students and briefed them on student membership as well as matters relating to Assessment of Professional Competency. Mr. Nick Hudson also presented the certificates of accreditation for both programmes to the Dean of the faculty.
Mr Sundra Rajoo, a Professional Architect and Town Planner and a specialist in construction law and arbitration has delivered a lecture titled “The Conduct of the Arbitration Proceedings” on Monday, 15 January 2007 from 9.00am to 1.00pm at Bilik Seminar FAB. The lecture was organised by the Construction Contract Management team from the Department of Quantity Surveying.
The talk was well attended by about 25 post-graduate students undertaking the MSc Construction Contract Management course and 60 undergraduate students comprising of students from the Quantity Surveying and the Construction course. Lecturers from the faculty as well as within the university were also invited to attend the talk.
The talk highlighted the principle of law in regard to the conduct of arbitration proceedings together with relevant case law. Arbitration Proceedings may be conducted in many different ways as there are no fixed rules of procedure. Being a Chartered Arbitrator, Ar Sundra Rajoo explained in great detail on how an arbitrator would conduct the proceedings commencing from oral hearing, drafting the arbitration agreement, choice of the arbitration rules, types of arbitration approach and the preparation of the award.
In conclusion, he commented that the parties in dispute are free to agree in the arbitration agreement on the procedure that should be adopted and what powers the arbitrator should have in the event of an arbitration taking place.