Ingenieur Vol 73 ingenieur Jan-March 2018 | Page 62

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 6 60 VOL VOL 73 55 JANUARY-MARCH JUNE 2013 2018