1.
New Airport Contracts: British Participation
Of the 21
awarded to
consultancies let SO
British
firms
14 have been
far,
or their Hong Kong
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
engineering
contracts awarded so
3.
far, one was to a Hong Kong firm with 50% British interests, namely the West Kowloon reclamation, Phase I Contract awarded to Gammon Construction Ltd. (None
of the contracts went to US firms.)
Of the four prequalified tenderers for the Tsing Ma Bridge Contract, one is a UK/Japanese consortium. (One of the competing consortia includes a small US
there is no other US involvement.)
element
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4.
5.
Of the six consortia on the shortlist for the airport site preparation contract, three include British firms
(three include US firms).
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
consortium, who are
US,
and British
Hong Kong 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.
B
(22
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