Re: Big Construction Companies mean Big Problem in our Construction Industry.


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Big Construction Companies mean Big Problem in our Construction Industry.

A big problem in our construction industry is that our government allows
the
construction companies to grow to unreasonably large sizes.

It is quite simple to explain the problem with an example. Suppose a
construction company is currently carrying out construction works for 50
different construction sites and it has one director (Here we call him the
boss.), a general manager and ten project managers working under him for
overseeing the construction works. As the boss and the general manager
have
higher authority than the project managers under them, they can override
any
decision of the project managers if they have disagreement with respect to
certain issues. Actually, the boss has nearly the absolute power, as he
can
control his staff with his money. Suppose further that the boss and the
general manager work 6 days per week and 9 hours per day. (It is more
likely
than not that their actual working hours is longer than that.) Simple
arithematic tells us that the boss and the general manager would only have
approximately one hour (or one and a half hour, if they are willing to
work
harder) available for "understanding and monitoring" the activities of
each
site per week. Under such situation, how likely is it that the boss or
the
general manager can make good decision? Unless they are supermen with
supernatural power (Actually, some would pose as such.), they may not even
be able to read through the relevant documents for the works (There are 50
DIFFERENT sets of project documents includings drawings, amended drawings,
contract documents including main contracts and sub-contracts and
correspondence that can easily fill up any office etc.) for 50 different
construction projects and they have to spare time for tendering for new
jobs, even though they sign many of the documents willy-nilly with a
"gentle" smile. What if they make the wrong decisions and override the
correct decisions of their project managers?

Clearly there is collusion between the government and the big companies.

Greed of the big construction companies is one of the main reasons for the
problems in our construction industry.

cc. The Chief Executive of the Hong Kong SAR Government
Dr. Ronald Lu









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