KUALA LUMPUR (June 24): The Master Builders Association Malaysia (MBAM) has urged the government to look into disruption to the supply chain of the construction industry since the commencement of the full movement control order (FMCO), which has affected the operations of critical construction works that are allowed during the lockdown.
In a statement, MBAM president Tan Sri Sufri Mohd Zin said quarries are not allowed to operate, while supply of building materials such as aggregates had decreased, and the few ready-mixed concrete batching plants allowed to operate cannot meet the supply of concrete to contractors.
If the situation persists, he said the essential construction works will not be able to continue.
“On June 10, the industry was informed that quarry operators are only allowed to supply building materials from their existing stockpiles. Blasting and extraction are barred. Currently, steel and cement players are only allowed a 10% workforce idling doing maintenance works, with no production operations.
“The steel and cement players both are critical supply chains of the construction industry supplying steel and cement products to critical infrastructure projects like the MRT (Mass Rapid Transit), LRT 3 (Light Rail Transit 3), ECRL (East Coast Rail Link) and others,” said Sufri.
Due to the stoppage of production for nearly one month, he said the supply chain serving these projects will be disrupted, which may result in the delay or temporary suspension of the projects once the existing stocks of building materials are exhausted.
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