However, when Legoland Malaysia confidently announced that they are opening its door to the public "ahead of schedule", all the concerns were finally answered. Indeed truly a "Malaysia Boleh!"
So was the project well-planned to complete on time which ends up ahead of schedule?
Building a theme-park is definitely not a walk in the park. Challenges were faced along the 17 months journey and here we would like to share some of their challenges.
1) Scope Gap
Sunway Construction main contract mostly involves in the construction of the buildings and infrastructure. For this project, there were other scope of works where Sunway only coordinate with other contractors such as the installation of all the rides, interior design works at the front portion of the buildings (public area), theme-ing works (interior and exterior) and landscape works.
As the saying goes, too many cooks spoil the broth, this situation definitely suits the idiom. Unless there is a very clear indication "which what is for who", everybody/anybody/somebody/nobody situation will bound to happen.
There may be numerous reasons why the scope was separated, one of them could be due to the works require specialist. No matter what the reasons may be, it was done so.
To overcome this obstacle, the best method is having regular meetings with ALL parties. One of the downside of a meeting is that it tends to be tiresome and having no answers/decisions during and after the meeting made things worse. Hence, in order to achieve any progress, the meeting should be attended by competent people who are willing to make decisions on the spot and taking calculated risks. With these attributes, works can proceed without much delay and consents from all parties.
2) Additional works
No theme park in the world was built without expansion or addition to their parks and Legoland Malaysia is no different. Did you know that Legoland Malaysia was actually a close replica to Legoland Deutschland in Germany? Search for it and you may see quite a number of the attraction here in Malaysia had already existed in Germany.
Nevertheless, Malaysia is not Germany. We definitely cannot have a 95% replicate of Legoland. So the design of Legoland Malaysia has to suit the country it is in and accommodate to the public needs. With incoming suggestions and ideas, Legoland Malaysia was 'growing' even before the park was opened!
With the additional ideas to implement and a fixed dateline to complete, time is the enemy. From a contractor's view, additional works if affecting their main contract works, they are always granted extension of time. However, with a fixed dateline, no extension can be granted. As a result, working extra hours was inevitable. Another alternative is to bring in more people into the project. Cost will definitely increase.
We are humans and we always try to better ourselves. Ideas and suggestions to make the theme park more user-friendly, interesting and safe cannot be avoided. However, to avoid the similar situation above from happening, proper planning during design stage should have been implemented. Further to that, during construction, early notification may have served a better position. Finally, someone has to make a stand to what extend the additional works is required for the theme park. And any further ideas and suggestions can be reserved for further development of the theme park in the future years. Good ideas if implemented at wrong timing will not only jeopardise the whole completion but also causes the cost of the project to rise unless it is a very much required work then it is unavoidable.
There are many other factors but the above I feel that it is more reflecting the project and can serve as a guideline and advice to others. Even with the above obstacles, they all manage to complete 'ahead of schedule'. Just imagine if everything goes smoothly...maybe they could have done it in 15 months??
Yours truly,
SPSkrs
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