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Date:
26.11.86
Time:
8.30
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12.15 p.m.
Reporter:
MEP
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go this far, but he gave the wrong reasons, and happens to be in this case, because of the reasons he gave, it is proving that he is incompetent even. I think I want to put that very straight.
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is no grudge about a consultant standing on his own opinion, but he gave that opinion on the wrong reason, and that is what we are concerned about, the Committee here.
D of Ar. S :
the
It is the performance of the consultants, we are not quite happy about. Performance not professional judgment. In Government there are eight basements built and there are five basements built with waterproof concrete. O.K. So that proves that the method or the design is a workable one. That is one thing. The other is perhaps one should put it in a proper perspective leakage the Report mentioned, four 38-litres per day at the worst. When viewed in the total context of the water surface area of the basement, this amounted to.0000263 litres per minute per square metre. Success or failure is perhaps relative. We are, O.K., in the building industry, especially waterproofing
underground waterproofing
-- is very difficult. Everybody knows that. The contractor knows it but he signs his contract with the tender documents. difficulty before he starts, but he could have
He knows the
you know
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going into the contract with Government, with that kind of difficult
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CHAIRMAN:
All right Mr Lei, those were done. Let us
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talk about what are we doing now because in paragraph 143 this waterproofing material whatever it is, you applied, doesn't work. Proved it doesn't work, and now resulting in the latest proposals to provide an internal waterproof tanking system. that been going on?
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D of Ar. S :
Yes, it will be completed
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CHAIRMAN:
How much will it cost?
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D of Ar. S:
Total waterproofing cost is about eight
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