SIBU: The enforcement of the Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication Act 2012 (CIPAA) to expeditiously resolve construction industry issues can help improve work quality and reduce ‘sick’ projects.
“Now, we have three avenues to address issues related to construction industry.
“CIPAA, that is (the) adjudication process and secondly, arbitration process and thirdly, construction court.
“Hopefully, through this all disputes related to construction, namely payment by clients to contractors; contractors to sub-contractors, suppliers,consultants and so on, can be resolved expeditiously.
“With that, we hope the quality of work will improve and sick projects reduced,” Works Minister Datuk Fadillah Yusof told The Borneo Post yesterday.
Fadillah, who is also Petra Jaya MP, said this when asked if the enforcement of CIPAA was a step forward to curtail the number of ‘sick’ projects in the country.
CIPAA 2012 was enforced starting Tuesday.
When launching the Construction High Court at the Jalan Duta Court Complex in KL, Fadillah had said CIPAA 2012 only applied to disputes related to payment following contracts signed after the date the Act was enforced.
He had expressed confident that the implementation of CIPAA would provide significant remedy to problems associated with protracted resolution of construction disputes, delayed payment and non-payment.