INSIGHTS · TEN OF 12 PIECES, FIVE SUBJECTS
Insights.
What a Kuala Lumpur management committee needs to know before it appoints anyone — grouped into the five subjects this business actually turns on. Ten of 12 pieces are published, each linked to the guide it belongs to; the rest are in preparation.
IN SHORT
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.
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.
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.