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Regime change
In Malaysia, as the general election held inMay 2018, a change of government took
place for the first time in the history ofMalaysia. Then, Mr Mahathir, over 90 years
old returned as the prime minister again forthis country. After the inauguration, he has
already visited Japan for 3 times and has
high expectations for investment, financial
support, etc. from Japan. Companies inMalaysia, especially Japanese companies,
have high expectations for economic growthfrom Mahathir’s regime. Even the Chinese
representative who is a friend of us working
for one of the china’s biggest company isalso looking forward to the trend of new
Mahathir regime.

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Recently, we attended a seminar on thebudget (policy) of the current government
and the revision of the tax system. We wereinterested in what kind of concrete plan
would come out in this budget proposal andpolicy announcement. The new government
announced the hidden debts from theprevious government, and revised tax
system to be implemented by the country.

As far as highlights are concerned, majorityof the policies remain as the previous
government’s policies but attention is paid on
thefinancial
reviewforlarge-scale
infrastructure investments.

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However, if it is an ordinary case, the termthat is called "Finance Bill“ should beannounced along with the draft budget andtax reform system (as of 13 th November,2018) which is unofficially announced yet.

Hitachi Transport System (M) Sdn Bhd

We look forward to the "New Look East
Policy“ for Japan, and the expansion theconstruction investment in Malaysia fromJapan and other countries. If construction
investment from foreign countries will bebooming, and the business performance ofthe company will develop, which will increase
the tax revenue in Malaysia.
As a PM company, Plus PM Consultant
hopes to contribute as much as possible toMalaysia'seconomy
bymaking
theconstruction investment progress smoothly.

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Hitachi Transport System(M) Cold Warehouse
Operation Begins

We witness from the seminar that both
domestically and internationally have many
expectations from the current government,from the leadership and ability to take action
to continue receiving high level of support,
meanwhile, leaving the negative image fromthe previous government (corruption, debt,etc.). In order to eliminate these factors, it isnecessary to consider increase tax that were
not included in the pledge, and it is also
possible that the currently well performing
Malaysian economy will stagnate if they do
not invite investment and financial support
from China.

Staff Introduction
After working for a Japanese generalcontractor in Japan, I moved to overseas
where I was responsible for several projectsin Singapore, USA, Myanmar & Spain. After
that, I was engaged in a skyscraper
development as a PM for a developed
company in Australia.
With the experienced I
gained, I am currently
working in our Malaysia
Office providing PM/CM
consultancy services.
My hobby is road bikes,
and I enjoy high-speed
and long-distance riding inKL during weekends.
IKUO MORITO

Plus Update

After 13 months of construction work from October
2017, Hitachi Transport Malaysia Sdn Bhd's refrigerated
distribution warehouse “Nilai Chilled Center" began fullscale operation in November 2018 as scheduled.

C l i e n t/

Hitachi Transport System (M) S/BLocation/

Selangor, Malaysia

U s a g e/

Cold WarehouseCM/

Plus PM Consultant S/BDesign/Build/Matsuoka ProjectTA/

7,400m²Structure/

RC structural Steel RoofF

It is located at 50km from Kuala Lumpur,
25km from KLIA international airport, only
3km from nearby highway interchange andsuitable as a logistics base, and is a facility
with an area of about 55,000m2 with arefrigerated warehouse of -25° of 600m2,refrigerated warehouses of 4,500m2 with 2temperature range of 0° and 5°, and officesof 2,300m2, including a total floor area of 7,400m2.
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Introduction

Revolution Speed
Recently, not only in Japan, but also in Malaysia,
the requests for PM services in logistics industry areincreasing. With the EC (e-commerce) market
expansion, improvement of the distribution network
and increase in the need for food products anddevelopment of frozen refrigerated warehouses areaccelerating. Furthermore, there is no doubt that
the TPP 11, which was withdrawn by USA, willcertainly enter into force at the end of 2018, themovement of goods in ASEAN region will become
more active in the future, and the maintenance oflogistics network will also expected to speed up.
For EC conversion ratio of all retail transactions,
China is the world leader with 19%, Japan with 5%,
and Malaysia with 3%, I think the EC ratio of
ASEAN countries will have a sudden growth.

It is said that those control the logistics will control
the EC, but we can catch the future moves from theworld biggest market, the China market. Additionally,
the huge market of China has a wide land, so thedevelopment of new technologies is progressing. These
include warehouse robots, patrol robots, transport
drones, and unmanned delivery vehicles. Furthermore,
new technologies and services are emerging, such as
the automatic calculation of the size of the cardboard
used to utilize AI (artificial intelligence). I suppose thePM business of logistics facilities in ASEAN region will
increase, and it is important to turn to technologicalinnovation in China than looking at Japan’s advanced
technology.
Plus PM Consultant Sdn Bhd
JOJI KIMURA
President/CEOTokyuLand Indonesia Puri Botanical Project

HTSM's Cold Warehouse operation begins
Continuation…

45,000 square meters on the remaining 33,000
square meter site, with the aim of operating inNovember 2020.

The 24 dock shelters are available to keep
fresh ingredients ready for delivery.
In February 2017, Plus PM Consultant joined
this as a project member from the initialplanning stage. We started with the selection of
D&B contractor, and we were able to support
construction management, completion, anddelivery. Prior to the commencement ofoperations, an opening ceremony was held on
20 th October and phase 2 project wasannounced to construct a dry warehouse of
approximatelyOur representative came to Malaysia fromJapan to attend the ceremony and participatedin the opening ceremony. Above all, all of ourstaff members were filled with gratitude and joy
to the people involved in the completion ofconstruction project without any delay and any
incident. We sincerely hope that Hitachi
Transport Malaysia Sdn Bhd's business willcontinue to grow.

24 dock shelters

TOKYU Land Indonesia
C l i e n t/

Tokyu Land Indonesia

Location/

Jakarta, Indonesia

U s a g e/

CondominiumCM/

Plus PM Consultant S/BA/

86,500m²Structure/RC (35-storey, 608 units)

TF

Loading Bay at 15℃

Refrigerated Warehouse
at 25℃

Refrigerated warehouses
with temperature zones of0 ° c and 5 ° C

PENTAX Medical Project in PENANG

Expansion work for manufacturing plant of Japanese company in PerakTOYO TYRE MALAYSIA SDN BHD
C l i e n t/

Toyo Tyre Malaysia Sdn Bhd

Location/

Taiping, Malaysia

U s a g e/

FactoryCM/

Plus PM Consultant S/BA/

100,801m²

Structure/

RC Structural Steel RoofTFTokyu Land Corporation established in Indonesia inMarch 2018 as known as “PT.TPB Development
Indonesia” made joint venture with a subsidiary ofSumitomo Corporation and PT. In cooperation with asubsidiary of Jakarta Setiabudi Internasional Tbk, they
started a large condominium development project“Puribotanical Project" in Jakarta.
While Tokyu’s design and implementation design will becarried out by a design company in Jakarta, Plus PM
Consultant
supports
theoperationtocompile
implementation design while following the design purposeof the basic design.
When it comes to business, it is important to design acondominium with a high degree of maintainability, inparticular, the contents of the design that can guarantee
the design quality that can be proud to Japan. We aim tocreate work design drawing and documents that canmaintain quality even at local construction companies
with good workability.
This project is coordinated by two of our staff, one isexperienced staff in Indonesia and another one isJapanese staff with experience in Japan Apartment
Design. The project meeting is held in 3 languages:
English and Indonesian language for the preparation ofauthority documentation and Japanese language forcommunication with the Tokyu group. Our project
members understand the technologies, cultures, customs
and other aspects of design and construction in both
Japan and Indonesia to promote the project.

It is a project to construct and expand a Phase 2 factory on the site of an existing factory with a
total floor area of approximately 100,000m², with a planned construction period of about 1 year.
Plus PM Consultant is managing in main contractor's bidding, evaluation and support pricenegotiation with main contractor in the design & build contract and on-site management duty. In
tender evaluation work, we checked the quotation and proposal submitted by tenderers, clarified theunknown points in interview with tenderers, carried out comprehensive evaluation, and supported theselection of D&B contractor. After that, we checked the contract’s contents from the client's point ofview and negotiated with the main contractor. Currently, the project entered the construction stage
where we are conducting priority management of the foundation work at the construction site. Infuture, in order to realize the completion in the short construction period of 1 year, we will implement
cost & quality management while placing emphasis on schedule management, we will manage theproject to the client’s satisfaction.

PENTAX Medical Sdn Bhd’s plan is to lease and renovate
from an existing factory in Penang, Malaysia to establish abase for maintenance of medical endoscopes in Asia. At
this project, our company involved in checking problems of
the existing factory, review lease agreement with thebuilding owner, make basic plan for renovation, application
for the office, selection of contractor, site management
after construction commencement and various inspection
works.
For overseas renovation projects, it is very important toconduct due diligence (legal compliance survey) andevaluate the performance of existing buildings. Based on
our experience, there are only few illegalities even if theowner is not aware of most factories in foreign countries,
and in repeated renovation due to over time, we see manycases where the completion drawing and the current
situation are different. It is not secure even there areexisting drawings and government inspection certificate. In
this project, we checked the legal compliance and defectsof the existing building before lease contract. Apparently, it
was found that the fire fighting passage was blocked, illegal
expansion, troubled air conditioner, non-operational cooling
tower, and non-operational lift, etc. We were able toconclude a lease agreement in anticipation the burden ofthese renovation costs.

Pentax Medical (Penang) Sdn Bhd
C l i e n t/Pentax Medical (Penang) Sdn Bhd

L o c a t i o n/

Penang, Malaysia

U s a g e/

Manufactures of Medical Endoscopes

M/

CDesign/Build /TF

A/Structure /Plus PM Consultant S/B
TTE Engineering (M) S/B
6,000m²
Steel (2-storey)

This was not only helped in reducing
renovation costs, but also made itpossible to apply and inspect formunicipal offices to commence theconstruction and as a result, theconstruction was completed as planned.