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Date:

18.12.86.

Time:

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9.50

Reporter:

PMO

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MR CHUNG:

the work ?

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That's not true. We still had very much a supervisory role to play whilst the construction gets underway. This would be in the form of not constant supervision but the supervision that is called for under the Government regulations and under the RIBA conditions.

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your answer you say that there was a Clerk of Works on the site

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MR MOTTRAM: Yes.

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MR CHUNG:

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who is a Government servant, I presume ?

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MR MOTTRAM:

We still had a supervisory responsibility.

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MR CHUNG:

granted that once a Clerk of Works was on

your responsibility to supervise

Yes, but I want to know whether you took it for

site, it was no longer

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MR MOTTRAM:

No.

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MR MOTTRAM:

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CHAIRMAN: Peter ?

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MR MOTTRAM: For day to day matters if I may, we would normally rely upon the Clerk of Works for feed-back for instance and this was the case in this job. If the Clerk of Works thought there were going to be problems or if he was in a position to

anticipate problems, then he would ring the structural engineer.

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MR CHUNG: The Clerk of Works was not your servant, or agent, is that right ?

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MR MOTTRAM:

No, but we were responsible for the

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supervision.

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