Ir KB Lee is responsible for the company’s overall business direction, supervision and management of the company’s technical department. He graduated from the National University of Malaysia with a first-class honour in Civil and Structural Engineering in 1993, before commencing his path in the field of temporary works for construction. He is a professional engineer registered with the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) since 2001. Ir KB Lee then co-founded a leading scaffolding company in Malaysia in 2014 and was appointed as a Director. Subsequently, Ir KB Lee was appointed as a Director in Era Scaffold System Sdn Bhd in 2021.
Ir KB Lee has over 20 years of experience specialising in temporary works for construction, which include scaffolding, falsework, formwork and self climbing platform system. He offers solution-oriented advices and designs on wide range of distinct sectors, including buildings, structural and infrastructure works, warehousing and factories, oil and gas, aircrafts and shipyards.
Ir KB Lee is currently an active technical committee of Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) for CIS22 “Safe Use of Scaffolding in Construction” and CIS23 “Safe Use Falsework in Construction” and the Chairman for the technical committee of Department of Standards Malaysia (DSM) for “Malaysia Standard for Scaffolding & Falsework”. He was the committee member of Civil & Structural Engineering Technical Division, the Institution of Engineers Malaysia (IEM) and was also the Chairman of committee for “Prevention of Collapse of Scaffolding & Falsework” and had published a position paper for IEM in 2015 on the same topic.
Besides being invited frequently to speak in seminars, forums and workshops on various topics pertaining to scaffolding and falsework organised by IEM, CIDB, DOSH, NIOSH and JKR, he had also participated in the following committees for the drafting of the Malaysian Engineering Standards:
(i) SI RIM-I EM SWO Technical Committee for “Code of Practice for Design of Structural Steel (EC3)”;
(ii) SIRIM Technical Committee for “Steel Materials for Structural Purposes”;
(iii) SIRIM Technical Committee for “Steel Products”;
(iv) SIRIM Working Group for “Metal Equipment for Falsework & Propping”;
(v) SIRIM Working Group for “Tubular & Prefabricated Scaffoldings”.