Engineering booms, yet lacks human resources

Engineering booms, yet lacks human resources
Phnom Penh: Cambodia’s engineering sector is booming and creating a lot of works for qualified people but this sector still lacks human resources and needs to improve legal management, according to Dr. Lim Sokthai, Dean of Architecture and Engineering Department at Norton University. Dr. Lim Soktai told KHB Media reporter that Cambodia's engineering sector is now stepping up to work on construction and designs which require essential human resources. "Human resources in Cambodia are still weak," he said, "I say that our human resources are very poor, we cannot train 100 people with 100 qualified outcomes because some of them fail in the middle path or after they graduate are extremely proud and cannot adapt to others at work." The Law on Engineering Management is not good enough required to be attentive from line departments/ministries to avoiding from unsafe and low standard designs as the design and construction work is not a job for every person can do, he added. "We should strengthen the law. For any problem at any buildings someone must be responsible, not just point to each other. So we have to have a firm law in place as a requirement for soil testers, designers and contractors."          
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