Slope survey

The panel of expert speakers at the Slope Management Seminar - Overcoming Challenges and the Way Forward (from left) lawyer Derek Fernandez, SlopeWatch programme director Eriko Motoyama, Slope Safety Expert Standing Committee chairman Daruk Dr Gue See Sew, JKR slope engineering department director Dr Che Hassandi Abdullah, KPKT Local Government Department (Building Control Division) director Ahmad Redza Ghulam Rasool and MPAJ slope engineering division head Zafrul Fazry Mohd Fauzy discussing and answering queries from the floor in regards to slope issues.

A hazard and risk map covering slopes not previously surveyed is being compiled under a project which will be completed by 2016.

“The purpose of the project is to create a database of such slopes and identify their level of hazard and risk,” said Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government Ministry’s Local Government Department (Building Control Division) director Ahmad Redza Ghulam Rasool