KUALA LUMPUR, April 26 — A machine operator died after he was hit by a reinforced concrete pile that sprang loose from its hook near a construction site in Rawang on Thursday (April 24).

PORT KLANG, June 25 — The Covid-19 vaccination programme for the construction sector will begin on July 1.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 21 — A total of 150 construction sites nationwide have been ordered to close since June 1 for failing to comply with the stipulated standard operating procedure (SOP) of the movement control order (MCO) 3.0.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 27 — The Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) has given the assurance that monitoring and enforcement of the prescribed standard operating procedures (SOP) at construction sites will be enhanced to curb the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 26 — Four new Covid-19 clusters were reported today, two of them involving construction sites in Kuala Lumpur.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 7 — A total of 84 per cent of 3,282 construction sites are operating within the standard operating procedure (SOP) set by the government to curb the spread of Covid-19 pandemic, said Senior Minister (Infrastructure Cluster) Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 23 — The Ministry of Home Affairs’ (MOHA) proposal to allow illegal immigrants detained at the Immigration detention centre to be employed by local employers could help deal with the shortage of labour in the construction sector, says Malaysian Bumiputera Contractors Association (PKBM) president Datuk Azman Yusoff.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 4 — Eight out of 1,398 construction sites which had resumed work during this conditional movement control order (CMCO) have been ordered to close after failing to comply with the CMCO standard operating procedures (SOP).