I started my first job as a Project Engineer in a small company that specialized in building district cooling plants with thermal energy storage back in the year 2013. I was assigned to assist a few project managers on tender, design and submission work. Back then, I mostly just follow managers around meeting clients and taking notes. After a few months, I learned to become more independent and that’s when I and two other project engineers, who joined the company about the same time as me, were assigned to a hospital energy audit and retrofit project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While working on the hospital project, I got to use many cool measuring devices such as temperature and humidity data loggers, ultrasonic flow meters and pitot tubes. Back then, I was primarily responsible for data analysis and reporting. In the following year, I worked on a primary school air conditioning system construction project. After the project was completed, I decided to move on to another company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nearly two years after my college graduation, I still worked as a Project Engineer. In my new company, I was assigned to work on two luxury high-rise residential towers simultaneously. But, the project had already started and we were behind the schedule. Thus, I was having a very difficult time trying to adapt and catch up with the schedule. At that time, I was managing more than 30 direct workers and two sub-contractors at peak with over a thousand air conditioners and mechanical fans waiting to be installed and commissioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was very stressful because I barely have any experience in high-rise building construction. I was staying up until late at night almost every day during the commissioning stage. Furthermore, I had to do many tests by myself as workers were generally unable to handle instruments, causing delays on some of my RFIs and submissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\nOut of all, the bomba test is the most critical part for me. I teamed up with a few general workers to finish up the entire smoke spill and pressurization system as my supervisor had to bring another team to commission air conditioners for the residential units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fortunately, we were able to pass the bomba fire safety test in one shot and got all air conditioners tested and commissioned thereby minimizing the delay and ultimately obtaining the certification of practical completion (CPC) for the project. Although the project was very difficult for me, I grew a lot since then. I learned time and stress management as well as people and relationship management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the same year, my colleagues and I went to Beijing, China to attend one of the largest HVAC&R exhibitions in the world. The exhibition center is so big that we had to split into 4 teams and stay for 3 days. Every night, we’ll exchange the information and knowledge gained from each team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\nSince we are in China, we wouldn’t want to waste it. So, we took the opportunity to go around Beijing and visited some tourist places like Great Wall, and Muzeum before flying back to Malaysia. I have many great memories of the trip to Beijing and we learned so many new things from the HVAC&R exhibition. Till today, I still keep in touch with most of my ex-colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\nBack to my work. After the two residential towers were handed over, my service team took over and I was transferred to work on another high-rise building but this time, it was an office tower. Remarkably, I was told that it is the first-ever hybrid chiller project in Malaysia. It has a whopping 54 units of hybrid chillers sitting on the roof. My colleagues and I always talk about it during tea breaks. The project also involved a few industry experts to guide all of us involved the project on energy efficiency and green building codes. I was lucky to be able to join a few factory visits with them and it was eye-opening for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\nAfter more than 4 years of working, I was promoted to become a Senior Project Engineer. I was doing multiple design projects including value engineering work, 3D Revit drawings production and the installation of VRF air conditioning systems for high-end retail stores. Meanwhile, I also reported directly to the managing director on business development work. Though I like my company at that time, I decided to challenge myself a year later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I took an offer from another company and became a Project & Service Manager at the age of 28 where I was working primarily on hot water heat pump systems. For about 2 years, I was serving hundreds of customers every week, solving their hot water and heat pump issues before I decided to quit and start this website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is so much more I want to share but this is getting too long. If you want to know more details about me and what I do previously, you can check out my LinkedIn profile and follow me on various social media platforms. Also, you can subscribe to my newsletter using the signup form I’ve prepared around my website to get notified of new posts and updates on aircondlounge. Thank you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Project Experiences<\/h2>\n\n\n\n I’ve handled not many projects compared to people who worked in the HVAC industry for 10-20 years. However, I manage each and every project in detail; almost every aspect of the project from costing to commissioning and after-sales service, in Malaysia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Menara TCM<\/h3>\n\n\n\n A 32-storey premium office building designed for GBI and Leeds gold accreditations that consists of multiple office floors, a banquet hall and a food court. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nEvaporative hybrid chiller system<\/li>\n\n\n\n Chilled water air handling & fan coil unit<\/li>\n\n\n\n Variable air volume system<\/li>\n\n\n\n Ultra violet germicidal irradiation system<\/li>\n\n\n\n Pre-cool fresh air & CO2 sensor system<\/li>\n\n\n\n Smoke spill & pressurization system<\/li>\n\n\n\n Carpark CO sensor system<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Tropicana Gardens<\/h3>\n\n\n\n Two blocks of luxury high-rise condominium with 4 basement carparks, two recreation floors and multiple types of residential unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nDX split unit<\/li>\n\n\n\n Multi-split system<\/li>\n\n\n\n Residential VRF system<\/li>\n\n\n\n Ducted fan coil unit<\/li>\n\n\n\n Kitchen & toilet exhaust system<\/li>\n\n\n\n Smoke spill & pressurization system<\/li>\n\n\n\n Carpark CO sensor system<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Village Grocer @ Tamarind Square<\/h3>\n\n\n\n A premium supermarket that has high standard for the aesthetic of mechanical services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nAir-cooled VRF AHU system<\/li>\n\n\n\n Ductwork<\/li>\n\n\n\n Noise and vibration control<\/li>\n\n\n\n VRF centralized control system<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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BookXcess @ Tamarind Square<\/h3>\n\n\n\n A large bookstore consists of a study area, a children area and common space for shoppers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nAir-cooled VRF system<\/li>\n\n\n\n Fresh air system<\/li>\n\n\n\n VRF centralized control system<\/li>\n\n\n\n Condensation prevention<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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SJK (c) Wangsa Maju<\/h3>\n\n\n\n A primary school consists of office rooms, common space and a 11,000 sqft hall that can hold 1000 students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nAir-cooled split AHU system<\/li>\n\n\n\n Ductwork<\/li>\n\n\n\n Noise and vibration control<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
Credentials<\/h2>\n\n\n\n I don’t spend a lot of time attending courses and seminars to get certificates for the sake of getting certified and the proof of credentials. These are what I have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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HVAC System Knowledge<\/h2>\n\n\n\n From my work, I learned about many air conditioning systems, both residential and commercial. Unfortunately, I didn’t have much experience in industrial applications. Nonetheless, these are the systems that I know and had experience with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nChiller System<\/strong> – Evaporative hybrid chillers, water-cooled chillers, air-cooled chillers, cooling towers & pumps.<\/li>\n\n\n\nVRF System<\/strong> – Air-cooled VRF condensers, central monitoring system, VRF troubleshooting, VRF copper pipe, VRF AHUs & water-cooled VRF systems.<\/li>\n\n\n\nDX Split System<\/strong> – Split units, multi-split systems, ducted split systems, AHU splits.<\/li>\n\n\n\nExhaust System<\/strong> – Toilet exhaust, kitchen exhaust & exhaust for mechanical rooms.<\/li>\n\n\n\nSmoke Extraction System<\/strong> – CO sensors, fire compartmentation, fire dampers and fire curtains.<\/li>\n\n\n\nPressurization System<\/strong> – Staircase pressurization, lift lobby pressurization, VSD fans, motorized fire dampers and differential pressure sensors.<\/li>\n\n\n\nDistrict Cooling Plant <\/strong>– Thermal energy storage tank, load profile and underground pipes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\nIn addition, I also have a few years of experience with hot water system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nHeat Pump System<\/strong> – Air source heat pumps, water source heat pumps and hot water storage tanks.<\/li>\n\n\n\nWater Heaters<\/strong> – Instant water heaters, storage water heaters and heat pump water heaters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n
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