1. MECHANICAL &
ELECTRICAL
ENGINEER
LEE AH
NAM
30 OVER YEARS
EXPERIENCE
"DO
THINGS
RIGHT AT
THE FIRST
TIME"
NO
REGRETS
DESIGN,BUILT,
CONSTRUCTIONS,
SITE VISIT
NAME: LEE ERN HUI
ID: 0319703

2. INTRO
The intention of doing this magazine is to develop a
deeper understanding towards a certain career. For
example,its responsibilities,skills required,problems or
difficulties faced and many more.
Therefore,on the 2nd of June,my teammates and I
went and interviewed Mr Lee Ah Nam which had 30 years
experience as an mechanical and electrical engineer.A few
questions were prepared for the interview so that we can
learn more about M&E engineering and their personal
experience throughout their experience in this career.
I would like to thank my teammates for working this out
together as a team and has made this interview went on
smoothly.I would also like to thank Mr Lee Ah Nam whom we
interviewed for giving us this opportunity.

3. BIOGRAPHY
Mr Lee as the senior
engineering manager of
M&E has 30 over years
experience was
graduated from Nothern
University.
His role as an engineer is
to design and built related
to the clients' services
He has worked for 5 years in
Kuala Terengganu and also
few more years in Kuantan.
He quit government and now
is currently working at IJM
Construction sdn bhd in
Petaling Jaya.

4. What does a
mechanical &
electrical
engineer do?
How do you balance your work life with your family life?
• Sometimes there is sacrifice
• You must know how to distribute your time
How's the experience throughout working as an M&E engineer?
• Role as M&E engineer is to involve in EPC (engineering,procurement
&construction) engage and coordinate with private consultant
• make sure that coordinate well with architect
• make sure layout fits with the architecture's design
What's your job in pre-construction,during construction and after
construction?
• From day 1 to the end
• - site visit,acquire design,construction,conclusion and end of work

5. Problem
solving in
M&E
engineering
What's the PROBLEM you face as an M&E engineer?
• Air-cond,firefighting,plumbing work,security surveillance,etc.
• Make sure to have a coordination drawing
• Miss out a lot of opening and installation in the coordination drawings
• ONce there is mistake,you will have ti hack again and redo
• M&E have to give feedback to architects
• The room size provided can fit according to the requirement for the installation
How does the quality and quantity of workers affect the project?
• have high qualify skilled workers initially but nowadays there are unqualified
foreigners as workers due to lack of workers
• These workers will end up wth defect work
• Nowadays we can't get high quallity buidings
• Do you agree that a sustainanle building is a successful project?
• Yes
What are the fundamental aspects in making a sustainable building?
• MAke sure that the quality of work is per what the clients' requirements
• Have to make sure that specs given are followed
• If you do not follow the spec,then you are not doing a good job

6. ACHIEVEMENTS?
FAILURE? REGRETS?
Throughtout working as an M&E
egineer ,do you have any regrets of
what you've done?
•No
•If you've chosen this course,until the
end, you don't ever regret
•Had a vision of being as M&E engineer
from the beginning
Do you have any mistakes in any
project? Had any projects come to
failure?
•No
•Any mistake is not allowed
ADVICES GIVEN BY
MR LEE
 Study HARD & study SMART
 Distribute and balance your life
 Follow the procedure given
 Lead and get help from seniors
 What you don't
understand,ASK
 To be successful person in the
future
 Not to make mistake in design
work
 Did a lot of Putrajaya
project
 one of it is Iskandar
Melawati
 Finish the job in time and
made a lot of profit
 "Once we carry out a
project,people say do things
right at the first time"
 Teamwork is important
 Coordination work
between architect,civil
engineer & M&E engineer is
very important
 Do things right at the first
time,so you can avoid
redraw or redo again

7. ACHIEVEMENTS?
FAILURE? REGRETS?
Throughtout working as an M&E
egineer ,do you have any regrets of
what you've done?
•No
•If you've chosen this course,until the
end, you don't ever regret
•Had a vision of being as M&E engineer
from the beginning
Do you have any mistakes in any
project? Had any projects come to
failure?
•No
•Any mistake is not allowed
ADVICES GIVEN BY
MR LEE
 Study HARD & study SMART
 Distribute and balance your life
 Follow the procedure given
 Lead and get help from seniors
 What you don't
understand,ASK
 To be successful person in the
future
 Not to make mistake in design
work
 Did a lot of Putrajaya
project
 one of it is Iskandar
Melawati
 Finish the job in time and
made a lot of profit
 "Once we carry out a
project,people say do things
right at the first time"
 Teamwork is important
 Coordination work
between architect,civil
engineer & M&E engineer is
very important
 Do things right at the first
time,so you can avoid
redraw or redo again