KOTA KINABALU, May 12 -- The federal government is intensifying efforts to strengthen Sabah's construction sector through greater investment, stricter project monitoring and enhanced industry capacity-building, said Works Minister Dato Sri Alexander Nanta Linggi.

He said the ministry is committed to improving technical capabilities in Sabah to ensure smoother project delivery.

"If we lack capacity, when we want to build or implement projects, many problems and challenges arise, which can be very costly. It may require extensions of time and sometimes projects become abandoned," he told a press conference at the International Construction Week (ICW) Borneo and BuildXpo here today.

"That is why building capacity is important. We are comm...