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construction starts, now if there were no detailed drawings would it
not fall upon the contractor's responsibility to chase the Government
up for it ? Point No 1. Especially in the light of the fact that in the headquarters building they were supplied right from the start with the detailed drawings. No 2. If I may refer you, Sir, to
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the minutes of the meeting between the Government Architect and the contractor's consultant in discussing Andrews Report, and in paragraph 6 of that minute and if I may read, Mr Berry, who is the contract adviser (maybe the Government). Mr Berry emphasised that PWD had warned the tenderers of the particular complexity of the
project and has asked for additional information from the contractor which was somehow not quite available at tender stage. [Reads]
"Special effort was made by PWD to discuss problems with Technic's specialist sub-contractor."
Now, that indicated to me, as a layman, anyway, that right from the start the design, although termed to be "simple", was recognised by the staff of the PWD to be perhaps more than meets the eye, and therefore, you know, they want the tenderers, and I presume "tenderers" includes all other tenderers rather than just the contractor in question. So therefore, if the contractor in question was to send a representative to that meeting, which I am sure they would have, they would have recognised that this could be a very complex project, and if they would have recognised it could be a complex project, at the construction stage, it would really be to their advantage to ask for detailed drawings then. I am looking at it totally objectively and from a layman's point of view. I am not
involved in construction so I don't know whether the sort of lines of
arguments and proceeding, overturns any trade practices.
MR CHEUNG:
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The concept was simple, an inverted pyramid, but not very practical. 2. It was recognised that although the concept was simple, translating it into an actual construction job was very complex. Everybody knew that including the contractor.
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Drawings were given to show the structure required but the steel bars were indicated by single lines instead of by detailed drawings. Not only do you have to have drawings showing the position and shape
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