REAAA (MALAYSIAN CHAPTER) 

On 15 June 1973, some 300 participants from 19 countries attending the Conference on Road Engineering in Asia and Australasia in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, unanimously resolved that the Road Engineering Association of Asia and Australasia (REAAA) be formed with a permanent secretariat in Kuala Lumpur. A Governing Council consisting of 15 persons was elected and the Association began to function.

The Malaysian Chapter was officially launched by the then Minister of Works, Malaysia Datuk Leo Moggie on 17 April 1993. In his speech, the Minister expressed hope that the formation of the Malaysian Chapter will help coordinate REAAA's activities in Malaysia, especially in facilitating intratechnology transfer.

RENAMING 

At the 4th Annual General Meeting of REAAA (Malaysian Chapter) held on the 21 April 1996, a proposal for renaming the Chapter was received. Subsequently, the Committee of the Chapter was given the mandate to form an ad-hoc committee to study the proposed change of name from REAAA (Malaysian Chapter) to Road Engineering Association of Malaysia.

At the 5th Annual General Meeting of the REAAA (Malaysian Chapter) held on 11 May 1997, the meeting resolved on the change of name from REAAA (Malaysian Chapter) to Road Engineering Association of Malaysia (REAM) with approval received from the Council of REAAA in April 1997 at their 59th Council Meeting.

The Registrar of Societies, Malaysia approved the change of name and the new constitution of REAM. The main objective for renaming was aimed at having a national body which can formulate and establish standards, guidelines and specifications for road engineering in Malaysia.

• To promote and advance the science and practice of road engineering and related professions.

• To encourage communication between persons charged with the technical responsibility for the planning, design, construction and maintenance of roads and allied structures.

• To obtain and diffuse among the members, information on road engineering and related matters affecting the profession, subject to the prior approval from the authority concerned to print, sell, publish, issue and circulate the records of transactions of the Road Engineering Association of Asia and Australasia (hereinafter referred to as REAAA) or any papers, periodicals, books, circulars and other literary understandings or any extracts there from as may seem conducive to any of these objects.

• To educate and seek to improve, extend and elevate the technical and general knowledge of members and persons concerned with road engineering to serve as a focal point for exchange of ideas related to road engineering.

• To conduct, encourage and collate research in road engineering.

• To formulate and establish standards, guidelines and specifications for road engineering in Malaysia.

• To establish, form and maintain an index of available existing literature and articles of interest in connection with road engineering.

• To co-operate, as may seem conducive to any of these objects, with national and international organisations and to support and supplement their work.

• To foster membership in Malaysia and to seek means to assure benefits for Malaysian REAAA members.

• To foster and support Malaysian participation in the activities of REAAA.