PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITIONEver since the first edition of the SMM made its appearance in 1960 the building industry has seen many changes and innovations in methods and modes of construction
This has resulted in demands for an efficacious communication and cost controlling tool for the benefit of better management and eflective monitoring of the works
The need for a new SMM is premised on these requirements
The first Sub-Committee under Mr
Cheah Kow Chye was set up under instruction of the Quantity Surveying Sectional Committee of The Institution of Surveyors, Maiaysia in 1984 to look into this and thereafler Mr
Noel Lim took over the chair of the Sub-Committee in 1989 when the decision to adopt the British SMM6 as a basis for our proposed second edition was made and agreed upon We