INGENIEUR
M ALAY S I A
BOARD OF ENGINEERS MALAYSIA
CIRCULAR NO. 006
ENGINEER’S RESPONSIBILITY FOR
SUBSURFACE INVESTIGATION
(Generally also known as soil investigation)
In exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 4(1)(f) of the Registration of Engineers Act 1967 [Act
138], the Board of Engineers Malaysia hereby determines as follows:
1. Subsurface Investigation (S.I.) shall be planned by the Submitting Person after a desk study
and site reconnaissance, including reviewing of all available information of the site and adjacent
areas. The methods of subsurface investigation and sampling for laboratory tests must also be
adequately specified and be relevant to the geological and the ground conditions. Guidelines can
be obtained from MS 2038 Code of Practice for Site Investigation and MS 1056 Method of Test
for Soils for Civil Engineering Purposes.
2. S.I. shall be carried out by qualified and experienced personnel according to approved
methods.
3. S.I. shall be supervised by the professional engineer who is responsible for the design or by
qualified person under his control
[326 th Board Meeting / 25 th May 2017]
DATO’ SRI Ir. Dr. ROSLAN BIN MD. TAHA
President
BOARD OF ENGINEERS MALAYSIA
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