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> Big Construction Companies mean Big Problem in our Construction Industry. >
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> A big problem in our construction industry is that our government allows
> the construction companies to grow to unreasonably large sizes.
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> It is quite easy to explain the problem with an example. Suppose a
> construction company is currently carrying out construction works for 50 > different
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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
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> working hours is longer than that.) Simple arithmetic tells us that the
> boss and the general manager would only have approximately one hour or
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> 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
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> 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
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> such.), they may not even be able to read through the relevant documents
> for the works (There are 50 DIFFERENT sets of project documents including > drawings,
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> amended drawings, contract documents including main contracts and
> sub-contracts and correspondence that can easily fill up any office etc.)
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> 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.
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> What if they make the wrong decisions and override the correct decisions
> of their project managers?
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> 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.
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> cc. The Chief Executive of the Hong Kong SAR Government
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