Wednesday, July 11, 1973
SOPHISTICATED CONTRACTING FORCE NEEDED FOR HONG KONG
The Director of Public Works, Mr. A.S. Robertson, said tonight the
disorganised and inefficient contractor would not be acceptable for the many
large engineering projects now being planned by his department.
"We must have a sophisticated contracting force to achieve minimum
guaranteed time schedules," he said.
Mr. Robertson, who was speaking at the Lu Pan Festival dinner of the
Building Contractors' Association, said the trend was for "the rewards" to
go to the contractor with a permanent professional and technical management
team, with equipment and "know-how" and with a record of successful projects
completed within the time schedule.
This pattern, he said, should be welcomed "for it implies more than
merely doing things more speedily, efficiently and profitably; it implies
doing things better; it involves that quest for excellence which should be
at the centre of all our endeavours."
The Director said that the coming year will see a great deal of
building work private building is going on at an extremely rapid rate,
the public housing programme in the new towns is beginning to accelerate,
a start will be made on many large road projects and the mass transit railway
will get under way.
All of these projects, he said, would call for a great effort from
the building industry and if the benefits were to be seen - good sound economic
buildings for the community and the assurance of a fair return for contractors -
the industry must rise to the demands placed on it.
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