INSIGHTS · TWENTY-TWO OF 24 PIECES, FIVE SUBJECTS · UPDATED
Insights.
What a Kuala Lumpur management committee needs to know before it appoints anyone — grouped into the five subjects this business actually turns on. Twenty-two of 24 pieces are published, each linked to the guide it belongs to; the rest are in preparation. Every piece is built on primary sources — chiefly the Strata Management Act 2013 and the 2015 Regulations made under it — and lists the passages it relies on. So are the figures a committee arrives looking for: the 10% of the Charges that section 25(4) sets as a sinking-fund floor, and the 95% availability and 20% spare capacity a published video surveillance standard asks of a building’s system. Both are yardsticks for a committee’s own tender, not undertakings.
Insights is where Occhio Tec publishes what a Kuala Lumpur building committee needs before it appoints anyone: how to read a failing system, what a takeover involves, how the work gets scoped and funded, and what high-rise buildings in Mont Kiara, Bangsar and KLCC require. Each piece sits in one of five subject areas and links back to it.
A FAILING SYSTEM — read the guide
- IN-01Your condominium intercom has stopped working. How to find out why.Working out why, from the pattern of which units are affected.
- IN-02How long a building's CCTV, access control and intercom actually lastWhy age in years is the wrong question, and what the four real signals are.
- IN-03Repair or Replace: Deciding on an Ageing Building Security SystemThe four questions that settle it, and the evidence each one needs.
- IN-04Analogue vs IP CCTV for a CondominiumWhat the cabling in the riser decides before anyone picks a camera.
- IN-13Condominium CCTV not recording: how to find out whyWhat to preserve before the overwrite, and what the pattern of the gap points to.
- IN-14Condominium access card not working: how to find out whyWhat to rule out in the building's own records, and what the pattern of refusals points to.
- IN-15Condominium CCTV footage requests: what a JMB may releaseThe police route, the resident route, and what to do when other people are in the frame.
TAKEOVER & MAINTENANCE — read the guide
- IN-05Taking over a security system another contractor installed: what actually happensThe as-found survey, the documentation, and what actually transfers.
- IN-06What a condominium security maintenance contract should cover - and what most leave outWhat an agreement must oblige — and the clauses most of them leave out.
SPECIFYING & FUNDING — read the guide
- IN-07Sinking fund or maintenance fee? How a Malaysian JMB pays to replace a security systemWhich fund the expenditure belongs to, and who has to approve it.
- IN-08How to write a scope of works for a condominium CCTV tenderDescribing the outcome precisely enough that three prices mean something.
- IN-09Three quotes, three different systems: comparing security tenders fairlyNormalising three proposals that each describe a different job.
EVERY LAYER, ONE CONTRACTOR — read the guide
- IN-10One contractor or five? What goes wrong when a building's ELV systems are splitIN PREPARATIONThe fault that lives in the shared layer, and why nobody owns it.
- IN-16Condominium guard patrol system: how a JMB checks roundsWhat a checkpoint read proves, who should own the record, and what the guarding contract must say.
- IN-17Condominium fire escape doors: what access control may lockWhat by-law 173 requires of an exit door, what must happen on the alarm, and where the lock stops being an access-control question.
- IN-18Can a condominium guardhouse keep your IC?What the law lets a building require at the gate, what may be recorded instead, and who holds the visitor log when the contractor changes.
- IN-19Condominium car park entry: RFID tag, card or number plateWhat each method at the lane actually identifies, and which by-law power it lets the building enforce.
- IN-20Condominium lift access controlWhat a building must pass to restrict lifts by floor, who is allowed to work on the lift, and what must still happen when the fire alarm sounds.
- IN-21Condominium security control roomWhere the recorder should sit, who answers for it, what the monitoring position must be able to produce after an incident, and the five things to settle before pricing it.
- IN-22Condominium perimeter fence securityWho owns the boundary, why a perimeter alarm is a probability and not a switch, and the two separate Energy Commission approvals an electric fence needs before it may be switched on.
- IN-23Condominium visitor managementWhat a visitor pass is actually presented to, the by-law that makes registration binding, what deliveries change, and who stays responsible for the records.
- IN-24Condominium key managementWhich keys belong to the building, what the by-laws really oblige an owner to do, the two keys you are not free to hand out, and what a custody record has to produce.
KUALA LUMPUR HIGH-RISE — read the guide
- IN-11What a JMB inherits from the developer's contractor - and what to check in the first 90 daysWhat transfers at handover, and the ninety-day window to close the gaps.
- IN-12What high-rise buildings in Mont Kiara, Bangsar and KLCC need from a security systemIN PREPARATIONWhat these towers have in common, and what separates one from another.