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Date:

Time:

25.11.86

2.15 to 5.00

Reporter:

JPM

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MR CHEONG:

Have these two Institutes now been

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completed?

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DTEIT:

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last September

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Yes, Sir. They were completed and opened

September of this year.

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MR CHEONG:

Bay completed before these two, or after these two?

The training complexes Sir, they were

finished before these were completed; in fact they started and were

finished before these were completed.

Were the Institutes at Kwai Chung and Kowloon

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MR CHEONG:

In relation to the other two complexes,

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was it through an architectural competition, or through an appointed

architect?

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DTEIT:

At that time we had a list again of

architects but there was no competition; we selected upon a basis of interviewing the architects concerned. But the point was Sir, I

think there we were on slightly better grounds because we knew more what we were trying to achieve which is basically a simple industrial

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we had been told that we had to improve the standard of accommodation

and the standard of facilities inside; there was noone in Hong Kong

who we knew and could identify positively, who could do this

particular work, and that is really the reason why we had a compet- ition, to see what was in fact available, and this is done I think in other cases with similar institutions the City Polytechnic and

the Hong Kong Polytechnic I think, just to quote two in this particular field.

MR CHEONG:

Personally I feel it is rather unfortunate

that in the light of experience of your having two major complexes

built in Kowloon Bay and Kwai Chung by appointed architects, that the

standard of Technical Institutes were to be compared with the

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