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Date:
Time:
28.11.86.
8.30
12.30
Reporter: PMO
Well, Mr Chui who was the designer, says
CHAIRMAN:
So it is the only one that we have. So during .
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went to Canada.
MR CHEUNG:
Mr Chui was the designer. He retired and he
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MR CHUE: One more point we wish to make is the additional work is 54 per cent of the original contract, so you can see how
serious is the additional work.
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CHAIRMAN:
Oh yes, there is absolutely seriousness in this case, as far as cost is concerned, delay is concerned. So, we have in Hong Kong right now, that stadium is practically and probably, one of its kind. Is that correct ?
MR CHEUNG: Is this the only stadium of its kind in the world, this inverted pyramid ?
CHAIRMAN :
Yes.
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MR CHUI: That's it. Especially supported on four columns only,
CHAIRMAN: Especially what? Supported on four columns only?
MR CHEUNG: May I refer to Professor Harris' letter, Sir. I am not an engineer myself. In paragraph 3 of his letter, where
he says:
[Reads]
"The choice of structural form was sound.
A pre-stressed
concrete box structure consisting of a top and bottom slab united by webs in two directions is well known to be strong and rigid in both bending and torsion. It is a structural form which I have myself used to advantage in such diverse major applications as highway bridges, floating structures,
[I don't know what he meant by floating structures] and buoyant foundations heavily loaded."
MR CHUI: I think he means a cantilever.
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