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Established in 2011, Etika Hijau is a BQSM-registered multidisciplinary consultancy delivering professional excellence across Malaysia and Southeast Asia.

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Quantity Surveying

Budgeting, cost planning, and rigorous financial control from inception to completion.

Dispute Resolution

AIAC-registered adjudicators providing recovery strategies and CIPAA 2012 experts.

5D BIM Services

Award-winning BIM capability ensuring digital precision and real-time cost integration.

Insights & Research

Publication Series

April 2026
PUBLICATION SERIES

Redefining Affordable Housing in Sabah

A Consumer-Centred Framework for Lifecycle Affordability

Affordable housing should not mean cheap housing. It should mean housing that is genuinely affordable to own, to occupy, and to live in — across all income segments, across all life stages, and across the entire period of ownership.

This publication proposes a five-dimensional framework for understanding what "affordability" truly means, examining acquisition cost, occupation cost, resilience cost, accessibility, and long-term value.

April 2026
CONSTRUCTION ADVISORY SERIES

Navigating the Minefields: A Structured Tendering Strategy for Sabah Contractors

Why pricing the BQ is only the final act — not the first

Every year, contractors across Sabah submit tenders that contain the seeds of their own failure. They price Bills of Quantities without reading the contract conditions. They commit to programmes without visiting the site. They bind themselves to rates without understanding the risks they are absorbing.

This paper sets out a structured, three-tier tendering framework calibrated to contract complexity, covering the complete process in seven phases, from receipt through post-submission review.

April 2026
PROPERTY OWNER ADVISORY SERIES

Before You Renovate: A Sabah Property Owner's Survival Guide

How to protect your money, your time, and your sanity

You have just acquired your property — and now you want to make it yours. You ask around for a contractor, settle on one you feel comfortable with, pay an advance of fifty or sixty per cent before a single tile has been laid, and then the miserable journey begins. The contractor's attendance declines. The work sits half-done for months. The quality is shoddy. Changes cause endless demolish-rebuild cycles. And when it is finally over — if it is ever over — you have paid double the initial cost and wasted three to five times the original construction time.

This story is not unusual. It is the norm. And it does not have to be.

This publication by Etika Hijau Sdn. Bhd. provides a practical, step-by-step guide for property owners — residential or commercial — to protect themselves when undertaking renovation works. It covers: how to define your requirements before approaching contractors; how to obtain and compare quotations on a fair basis; how to check a contractor's track record; why a written agreement is the single most important protective measure; how to structure payments so your money follows the work, not the other way around; how to document progress and manage changes; and when to engage professional help.

The measures in this guide are not complicated. They do not require legal expertise or construction knowledge. They require only discipline — and the understanding that the contractor who is competent, honest, and professional will welcome them.

July 2025
PRACTITIONER SERIES

Preliminaries in Construction Contracts

A practitioner's guide to SMM1, SMM2, MySMM, and the current SMM3

Tracing the subject from RICS/NRM origins to detailed Malaysian practice. Covers all major procurement methods, the CQS's role, six valuation methodologies, contractor pricing advisory, and reconciliation for JKR/PWD and PAM forms.

Distinctive to this publication is a dedicated section on the Sabah and East Malaysian uplift — setting out the structural market characteristics that push local preliminaries materially higher than Peninsular benchmarks would suggest.