Abstract: With the large road network currently at about 17,500 km for Federal Roads and about 61,000 km for the state roads in Malaysia, roads maintenance budget accounts for sizeable proportion of public expenditures and is currently at about RM 580 million a year. If road user costs or vehicle operating costs (VOC) are taken into considerations, the total expenditure by road transport sector is even greater. Before any maintenance activities taken over from the project team, there are few acceptance criteria setup mainly for pavement, bridge and road furniture. For the pavement component, the major parameters considered in the criteria are surface regularity, pothole, crack, rut depth and bleeding. All these criteria are based on the Public Works Department (JKR) standard specification for road construction and must be complied accordingly. For those locations which are not fulfilling the criteria, the project team has the responsibility to rectify all those non-compliance items within the stipulated period. Failure to do so, the JKR has their right to retain the performance bond or engage third party to take action against those defects. Apart from that, the JKR is now initiate an internal audit to inspect all those new road construction project which is involve both sides i.e. maintenance and project team in order to facilitate both party in handing over the project after Defect Liability Period end.
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-09-01
Language: en
Type: article
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