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Date:
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Reporter:
structure
26.11.86
8.30 - 12.15 p.m.
MEP
Let us face it. Nobody in Hong Kong has built that type of structure before. That is the expertise side, but in a complex post-tensioning
a building structure. I won't go into why is it so
difficult, so complicated. Perhaps the organisation has something
to do with it. Rather than to deal with the problem on a day to day
basis. If you have the organisation if the contractor has the organisation capability, he could plan his work much better.
CHAIRMAN:
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Well you know, it is amazing to me that first of all the super-structure contractor doesn't have any experience of building such a super-structure for the stadium, and then there is a delay of twenty-seven months, caused by the difficulties, and then he turns out to come back and claim the Government for money. It should be the other way around.
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D of Ar. S:
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also include, additional
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CHAIRMAN:
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talking about?
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Sorry, the twenty-one month delay is --
work and inclement weather.
What type of additional work are you
D of Ar. S:
Additional work like ordering an ice-
skating rink. For instance, adding a tele-screen. These are major or additional works and this is the sort of price you pay as it were, if you change your mind in mid-stream, which we have
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CHAIRMAN:
of the building?
D of Ar. S:
Does that alter the super-structure
Well it lengthens the time, so the
twenty months you were referring to is not entirely due to the difficulty in construction which we agree. It is not twenty-seven
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months.
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CHAIRMAN:
Well that is again it is beyond me.
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Here is a stadium to be built.
What is going on inside. You want