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New Airport Contracts

: British Participation

1. Of the 21

awarded to

consultancies

let So far, 14 have been

British firms 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

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.)

3.

Of the four prequalified

Bridge

4.

tenderers for the Tsing Ma

Contract, one is a UK/Japanese consortium.

(One of the competing consortia includes a small US

element there is no other US involvement.)

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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)

(b)

Greiner-Maunsell, a US, British and Hong Kong consortium, who are doing the civil engineering

design work for the airport; and

Mott MacDonald HK, a Hong Kong company with

British affiliations, who are doing the design work for the Tsing Ma Bridge.