-BRIEF HISTORY-
The Company was established in Penang in 1990 and its Kuala Lumpur office started operations in 1998 to serve its clients in the Selangor and Kuala Lumpur.
WEA Penang office was closed in 2024.
The Company has provided engineering consultancy services to the government and private sector on many significant and complex projects.
It is well known that WEA Engineers & Associates Sdn Bhd is a specialist on geotechnical engineering and high-rise designs and is well recognized by the Authorities. The difficult and challenging Pulau Langkawi Cable Car project is one of WEA’s many successful projects.
INTRODUCTION
The Company started practicing in Penang in 1990 under the sole-proprietorship of Ir. Dr. Wong Fook Keong. It was incorporated to WEA Engineers & Associates Sdn. Bhd. in 1998. WEA’s Penang Office was closed in 2024 to enable the Company to consolidate its practice to be based in Selangor / Kuala Lumpur.
WEA offers engineering consultancy services in the following disciplines in West and East Malaysia:- Geotechnical Engineering
- Civil and Structural Engineering
- Geotechnical & Structural Engineering Design Reviews
- Infrastructure Planning & Design, including Rock Blasting Design
- Building Condition Surveys & Audits
- Forensic investigations in Geotechnical, Civil & Structural Engineering
- Expert Witness Services in Geotechnical & Structural Engineering
- Building Demolition Design
WEA is committed to provide a high quality of professional services with full recognition of modern economic considerations, and takes pride in securing many repeat assignments from its many clients.
WEA’s projects include:
- Shopping Malls
- High-rise & Medium-rise Residential Buildings
- High-rise & Medium-rise Office Buildings
- High-rise & Medium-rise Hotels
- Geotechnical Engineering – deep basements
- IBS Buildings – precast concrete and metal formwork
- Industrial / factory Buildings
- Housing Developments
- Building Condition Survey and Assessment including Structural Repairs
- Hill-slope Developments
- Soil Slope Engineering
- Rock Slope engineering including rock blasting designs
- Bridges and Cable Car (Pulau Langkawi)
- Infrastructure including sewer distribution (PJ) & water supply systems (AiS)
WEA is registered with the Department of the Treasury, Langkawi Development Authority and the Penang Development Corporation and is on the Geotechnical, Civil & Structural Engineering Consultant Panel of Putra Perdana Development Sdn. Bhd. (formerly Kamunting Development Sdn. Bhd.) Forensic engineering investigations / studies for the insurance claim sector were frequently carried out and WEA has many repeat assignments from insurance companies and insurance loss adjusters on construction related insurance claims. WEA is on the engineering expert panel of loss adjusters, including Mestari Adjusters Sdn. Bhd., MSM International Adjusters (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, Charles Taylor Adjusting (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd., Crawford & Company Adjusters (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, McLarens (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd and Sedgwick Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. (for construction related insurance claims). WEA has been engaged by insurance companies such as Allianz General Insurance Company (Malaysia) Berhad, AmGeneral Insurance Berhad, Berjaya Sompo Insurance Berhad, Generali Insurance Malaysia Berhad, Great Eastern General Insurance (Malaysia) Berhad, Lonpac Insurance Berhad, MPI Generali Insurans Berhad, MSIG Insurance (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, The Pacific Insurance Berhad, Zurich General Takaful Malaysia Berhad.
Examples of such forensic engineering studies include:
- Structural & foundation distress / failures
- Slope and embankment distress / failures
- Earth retaining wall damage / failures, including reinforced earth walls
- Bridges / flyovers / cable trusses / prestress concrete beams damage / distress
- Fire (residential and factories) damage / losses
- Timber structure damage / losses – including timber chicken houses at many locations
- Wind damage to structures
- Roof damage / failures, including belian shingle roof at Tawau (Sabah)
- Flood / OSD damage / losses
- Road subsidence / failures
- Soil consolidation failures
- Earth dam / slope distress / failures (Sarawak)
WEA served as technical adviser for the MASCON Formwork System from 1990 to 1994 and for the BINARI Formwork System from 1994 to date. It participated in establishing the working details of BINARI’s formwork components. It also served as the technical adviser for the PRIMA Formwork System during the system’s formation stage.
WEA has vast experience in the design of shear wall buildings using the aforesaid formwork systems.
In 2001, WEA worked on a research grant from the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment on research “relating to the design and development of factory manufactured/ industrially produced low and medium cost houses”. The resulting precast concrete building system is very cost effective and produces high quality concrete structures. The precast structural elements include precast half slabs, wall panels, columns, beams and staircases. Special and efficient joint details were researched and developed to provide expediency in forming connections at site. The system underwent thorough review by the Structural Division of the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok.
WEA’s HILL SLOPE PROJECTS
Layout and earthworks plans of 52 acres
WEA’s international activities include housing and medium rise apartment projects in Thailand, Vietnam, Mauritius and the Seychelles Islands.
For Structural Analysis and Design, WEA uses Tekla Structural Designer (TSD) , a powerful Structural Analysis and Design Software, TSD is often used in conjunction with various BIM Software including Autodesk Revit. For a Project using Revit, TSD has Direct Integrator to convert the Structural BIM Model into RVT Native Formats without having to remodel the BIM Model. Our design is therefore BIM compliant which will assist Developers, Main Contractors, Architects and M&E Engineers to collaborate and coordinate their designs.