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Reporter: PMO
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is the obvious impossibility of setting up of any kind of mass
production techniques, when the work was not straight-forward."
forgive me please, you and your client, I am not a contractor, I don't
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construction industry, but in my own experience in other fields of manufacturing, mass production techniques do mean certain along a
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and organisation. Now, if the work, if the progress of work has
not been progressing as rapidly as desired, then surely the contractor
would be concerned about the progress and that they would look at the problem and say, look, we do need mass production techniques and
flow line techniques, what other problems are there, apart from the
drawings, what other problems were there, in order for us to solve
all these problems because later on in Mr Andrew's report, he not
only dealt with the procedure for overcoming problems he dealt with
labour, quantity, etc etc. So it was all due to organisation and
quantity and, quite honestly, on reading through the report the
layman's question that springs to my mind is, here is a problem,
for one reason or another the contractors are facing it.
order to catch that up the contractor must try and anticipate more
problems and must try and deal with it with all the resources. He
might have, but it does not borne out in this particular report. This
particular report, Mr Andrew prepared, seems to have laid the blame
totally on the inadequate supply of the drawings. I mean, you know, a large element of it.
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MR CHEUNG: That is right. Sir, I hope by "mass production" 28 you did not mean repetitive work because there was no repetitive
work in this job. 2. You must consider the increase in scope which brought things to a halt at various times.
Problems,
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because of the lack of drawings, could not be identified in advance.
I think Mr Andrew refers to a number of instances where this occurred.
Take, for example, page 12, labour. He said : [Reads]
"A good deal has been said both in correspondence and at meetings about the number of men on site, particularly steel fixers, and repeated requests have been made by the architect for gang working. I quite agree that the only way the grandstand could