KUCHING, April 8: A total of 13 contractors undertaking thermal, hydro, transmission lines and substations projects have been awarded the Sarawak Energy’s Contractor Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Compliance Award (CECA) 2020.
A virtual ceremony for the CECA 2020 was held today with three contractors awarded gold, four silver and another four bronze while two received merit ratings for successfully fulfilling the CECA assessment criteria.
According to Sarawak Energy in a media release today, under the 2020 assessment, more projects showed improvement in overall performance, which was reflected in their ratings with more contractors managing to elevate their environmental compliance performance from silver to gold and from bronze to silver.
The contractors were assessed by Sarawak Energy’s internal assessors jointly with experienced officers from both the Natural Resources and Environment Board (NREB) and the Department of Environment (DOE) Sarawak.
Sarawak Energy Group chief executive officer (CEO) Datu Sharbini Suhaili officiated at the virtual event which was also attended by DOE Sarawak director Hamzah Mohamad as well as Sarawak Energy Project Delivery executive vice president Ir Pramod Kumar Karunakaran and Health, Safety, Security and Environment senior vice president Marconi Madai.
Sharbini applauded the contractors for their commitment towards meeting government-mandated environmental requirements, and the partner organisations who have contributed to Sarawak Energy’s environmental initiatives.
“Congratulations and well done to all the winners. A strong culture of HSSE Excellence and sustainable operations are key enablers for our Sarawak Energy Excellence 2022 aspiration of moving from good to great and becoming a regional powerhouse.
“Contractors play a vital role in enabling the creation of a sustainable future for all and the realisation of this aspiration,” he said.
Sharbini also highlighted that Sarawak Energy achieved 100 per cent compliance with all relevant environmental regulations and legislation at its main power stations and project delivery for the first time in 2020.
“We hope to replicate this success at all our facilities and by all our contractors,” he added.
Ir Pramod explained that compliance with environmental regulations and legislation was necessary to achieve timely completion of Sarawak Energy projects by preventing the issuance of stop work orders and notices which can delay project timelines.
“Towards this end, our Project Delivery team and contractors have consistently worked together to ensure that all project sites comply with the EIA, Environmental Management Plan (EMP) and any other relevant environmental laws,” he said.
CECA was introduced in 2017 to promote a culture of self-regulation in environmental compliance among its contractors. Contractors in Sarawak Energy’s projects are evaluated for various levels of compliance with EIA or EMP approval conditions and statutory environmental requirements.
Marconi emphasised that the assessment standards of CECA 2020 have been elevated to include a set of comprehensive HSSE criteria, including policy adherence; operations; maintenance and general environmental conditions.
“These enhancements are vital to our efforts to encourage our partner contractors to be more vigilant towards ensuring full compliance to our HSSE practices and to institute self-regulations to comply with relevant environmental laws and requirements while implementing Sarawak Energy’s projects.
“Thank you also to DOE Sarawak and NREB for guiding us in making and implementing these improvements,” he said.
Meanwhile, the gold award recipients for CECA 2020 were GE Power Solutions (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd and Sinohydro Corporation (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd Consortium for the Tanjung Kidurong Combined Cycle Power Plant Project; EPC Synergy PESB Engineering for the Sg Merah 132kV Substation; Shanghai Electric Power T&D (M) Sdn Bhd JV Pembinaan Kuantiti Sdn. Bhd. for Bunut (500)/275/(132)/33 KV Substation.
The silver award recipients this year were Hock Peng Furniture & General Contractor Sdn Bhd (Balingian Operator Village Project – C5); Consortium of GE Power Services (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd and Fook Lai Construction & Development Sdn Bhd (Tatau 275/(132)/33/11kV Substation); and Consortium of Larsen & Toubro (East Asia) Sdn Bhd and Pekerjaan Piasau Konkerit Sdn. Bhd. (Lawas Town 275/33kV Substation); KEC International Limited (Serudit – Sri Aman Transmission Line).
The bronze award recipients were Consortium of Larsen & Toubro Limited, Hock Seng Lee Berhad and Larsen & Toubro (East Asia) Sdn Bhd (Matang 275/132/33kV Substation); Consortium of KEC International (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd & Golden Harvest Construction Sdn Bhd (Bunut – Medamit 275kV Transmission Line); Shanghai Electric Power T&D (M) Sdn Bhd (Marudi Junction – Bunut 275kV Transmission Line); and Hock Seng Lee Berhad (Balingian Operator Village Project – C5).
Sarawak Energy also awarded merit ratings to Persafe Engineering Sdn Bhd JV XD Power Transmission (M) Sdn Bhd (Marudi Junction to Miri Airport 132kV Transmission Line); and Perbena Emas Sdn Bhd (Baleh HEP Project – BLP 1 Jetty, Bridge & Road).
