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CIDB Malaysia celebrates
20 years of achievements

Fellowship Awards conferred on 65 construction industry leaders for
outstanding contributions to the industry and nation.
IT MAY SEEM like only yesterday but the Construction Industry
Development Board (CIDB) Malaysia has been around, and active, for
a good two decades, going about its mission to “develop the capacity
and capability of the Construction Industry.” In this journey, much
has been achieved in the space and time of 20 years and milestones,
to date, include the Construction Industry Master Plan (CIMP),
Industrialised Building System (IBS) Roadmap, Quality Assessment
System in Construction (QLASSIC), Building Information Modelling
(BIM), to name but a few. Come 2016, in partnership with the private
sector, CIDB will be the driving force behind the recently-launched
initiative, i.e., the Construction Industry Transformation Programme
(CITP).
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Commemorating these and other feathers in its cap, CIDB
celebrated its 20th Anniversary with a series of activities, culminating in
a gala dinner on which occasion Fellowship Awards were conferred on
65 leading figures in the construction industry, in appreciation of their
outstanding contributions to the industry and the nation, as a whole,
and in recognition of their own success stories (see table below). Award
recipients included developers, contractors, consultants as well as other
building professionals, the academia and CIDB Board Members, as
well as Government department/agencies involved in construction
projects. In addition, eight CIDB employees were awarded long-service
medals of appreciation (20 years) whereas twelve others were similarly
recognised for serving either 15 or 10 years.