Consulate-General should be up and running well before the transfer of sovereignty on 1 July 1997.
7.
Para 8 of your letter under reference requested
information on how this project will be managed on the ground in Hong Kong from our position as client. Our Project Manager, Swire Properties Projects Ltd, are a well established
and experienced project management company based in Hong Kong. They have been given delegated authority for the majority of
the PM activities indicated in Annex 3 of PCPU Guidance 33.
Swire are obliged to report regularly on progress and to anticipate and notify the Project Sponsor, at an early date,
of any possible difficulties with recommendations for any
necessary remedial action to rectify the situation. We have
an effective working relationship with Swire; we frequently have daily contact via the telephone or fax and I have also
visited Hong Kong for discussions with them and the Design
team when need has arisen. I anticipate that these practices will continue throughout the project. The OED professional advisory team provide me with support and advice as necessary. There will be a need for continual site supervision during construction and suitably qualified site control staff,
reporting to PM, will be resourced from within the existing
consultant team.
lt.marr.NATjoyce
8. Your letter of 22 July to Alan Wootton asked us to review
the question of financial arrangements with the British
Council. The background to the assumption that the British
Council should not pay rent stems from the Ministerial decision in 1990 that collocation in a high quality building
was the best way to demonstrate Britain's commitments to and
interest in Hong Kong after 1997. We understood that Treasury
acceptance of our total PES bid for the collocation of the
Consulate-General and the British Council meant in practical
terms that the capital cost of creating the British Council
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