MALAYSIA HOTEL ENGINEERS ASSOCIATION
In the year 2006, we started with a small group of gathering among the Maintenance Manager, Chief Engineer and the Director of Engineering to discussed about the issues that we are facing in the hotel’s industry especially in the Maintenance/ Engineering department where we had lot of challenges as the properties were aging. Our intention for the gathering is to sharing our Problem Experiences, Best Practices, Fire Life Safety, Sustainable Energy, Green Initiatives, Environmental Protection and Information of New Technologies.
Hotels are operates 24/7 with much more extensive and demanding as we are here to ensure that all the systems of the building are continuing to work and well maintained. The role and mandate of any property’s maintenance/ engineering department is not only to protect the building’s and owner’s assets but also to establish and implement program such as best practices to eliminate energy waste, energy conservation and water usage in the Hotels. This includes the electrical transformers and the distribution system throughout, the domestic water supply and sewage discharge, the air conditioning mechanical ventilation system, (ACMV), the fire alarm system and fire life safety components, the vertical transportation system (elevators), the property surroundings like parking and landscaping and even pest control. Utilities management such as electricity, fuel, LPG, NG, steam and water for kitchen and laundry equipment, lighting, sound systems and so on and on. Without minimizing the contribution of other departments, of which there may be as many as five or more, the bottom line is if no Maintenance/ Engineering department, there is no hotel at all.
As the group is expanding from year to year and now with more than 150 leaders across the country especially in the hotel’s industry who’s joining the group, we would like to bring to your attention that we had formed an association and officially registered on 8 September 2016. Cheers.
James Au
Chairman & co-founder of Malaysia Hotel Engineers Association
(2016 – 2022)