TNAG-2410-FCO40-3504-Hong-Kong-Port-and-Airport-Development-Strategy-(PADS)-Brit-1992 — Page 59

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Overseas AMEC have led projects in La Guardia, O'Hare and Hobby in the USA as well as Kansai in Japan and Charles de Gaulle in Paris. (Enclosed is a short video of AMEC's airport experience, which was made specifically for the Hong Kong airport project.)

AMEC intend to prequalify and bid for the Terminal complexes together with its major electro/mechanical systems.

In discussions with the Provisional Airport Authority (PAA) AMEC have made the following observations out of which has been carved a bidding strategy:

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The programme is shorter, 20%, than anybody else has achieved around the world.

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The skilled labour requirements available labour particularly in the E&M sector by a significant amount, say 15%.

The likely PRC involvement is low skilled and of a rudimentary nature

nature caused by the lack of training and capital investment.

The oil and gas industry is moving into South East Asia to exploit the Indonesian, Malaysian and PRC fields, in moving into the region AMEC and others are investing and converting shipyards into production platform facilities.

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The facilities being created are highly invested computer aided engineering to counter low technical skills and lack of trained labour.

The new Airport can be approached by barge on three sides for 365 days per year.

Parallel working on sites and facilities away from Hong Kong, but particularly in

in the PRC, could shorten the programme, albeit at some cost.

Barging modules by sea to Hong Kong is not

problem.

As a consequence we at AMEC believe that if a modularisation approach was made in the design and construction then the programme could be protected by parallel working away from Hong Kong

Kong without deterioration in the quality standards. The use of computer aided engineering in the offside facilities would protect the high standards required, these investments are being made in these new yard facilities to oil industry needs and as a consequence would not need to be wholly funded by the airport project. The parallel site working would of course reduce the number of trade skills necessary in Hong Kong and also reduce the itinerant camp facilities.