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New Airport Contracts

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British Participation

1. Of the 21

awarded to

consultancies

British

let SO far, 14 have been

their Hong Kong

firms

or

affiliates, a further four to consortia with British partners. (Two were awarded to US firms, and three to consortia with a US partners.)

2.

Of the four major

far, one was to a

engineering

contracts awarded so

Hong Kong firm with 50% British

interests, namely the West Kowloon reclamation, Phase

Contract awarded to Gammon Construction Ltd. (None

I

of the contracts went to US firms.)

3. of the four prequalified

4.

Bridge

(One of

element

tenderers for the Tsing Ma

Contract, one is a UK/Japanese consortium.

the competing consortia includes a small US there is no other US involvement.)

Of the six consortia on the shortlist for the airport site preparation contract, three include British firms (three include US firms).

5. Although the US firm Bechtel has the overall programme

management consultancy, it has no influence over the selection of consultants and contractors. The design

work for the two largest elements of the project have

been undertaken by :-

(a)

Greiner-Maunsell, a US, British and Hong Kong

consortium, who are doing the civil engineering design work for the airport; and

(b) Mott MacDonald

HK, a Hong Kong company with

British affiliations, who are doing the design

work for the Tsing Ma Bridge.