TNAG-1642-FCO40-2289-Public-finance-in-Hong-Kong-Supplementary-Appropriation-(198-1987 — Page 246

Date:

28.11.86.

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Reporter:

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12.30

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give details of the rooms that might be available for (i) avoiding ducts and so on and (ii) so that you can put your vibrator in to 4 vibrate the concrete.

1 of the various steel bars to be put in, but a small drawing doesn't

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MR CHEONG: Yes, Mr Cheung, I don't argue with whether you have just said. All

I am saying is, shouldn't the contractor be asking, having recognised that this would be a complex problem, 9 shouldn't he be asking for more detailed drawings when the

construction starts

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MR CHEUNG:

He did.

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and not afterwards ?

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MR CHEUNG: No, no, he did. He asked for drawings. But I think the point of your question is, why didn't he ask for a set of detailed drawings

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MR CHEONG:

That's right.

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MR CHEUNG:

A complete set of detailed drawings, when

construction started. The answer is PWD didn't have the manpower

available to provide the complete set of drawings at that time.

MR CHEONG: Well, then

MR CHEUNG: I can add one fact; the engineer who designed this project it so happened retired after the contract had been awarded and the engineers who succeeded him perhaps did not know as much about the concept as he did. At any rate in fact they didn't have the manpower and they did not and were not able to 33 supply the detailed drawings as a batch.

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CHAIRMAN:

You mean from PWD ?

MR CHEUNG: Yes.

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