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, not ours’, says main contractor at MTR commission of inquiry | South China Morning Post

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 30/05/2019 Defective construction work at Hung Hom station tunnel ‘was subcontractor’s fault, not ours’, says main contractor at MTR commission of inquiry | South China Morning Post

View of a building site at the Wan Chai Exhibition Centre station overseen by Leighton Contractors (Asia), for the MTR Sha Tin-Central link. Photo:
Dickson Lee

The main contractor at the scandal-plagued Hung Hom MTR station has hit back at allegations it engineered defective construction
work at the station tunnel, saying it was caused by a subcontractor’s failure to do its job correctly.

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Leighton Contractors (Asia) made the counter-attack at an extended government-appointed commission of inquiry on Tuesday.

The extended commission is looking into issues reported at three more locations of the station on the HK$97.1 billion (US$12.3 billion)
Sha Tin-Central link.

The issues concern shoddy construction on the north approach tunnel’s stitch joints, missing documents known as RISC forms and the
unauthorised change of design at the north and south approach tunnels and the Hung Hom station’s side tracks.

The new reports followed last year’s allegations of defective work on the station’s platforms and walls. The commission concluded in
March that those structures were safe despite the shortcomings in the work.

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The Hung Hom station on the Sha Tin-Central link has been plagued with allegations of shoddy work. Photo: Dickson Lee

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It claimed Leighton had bought the wrong type of threaded rebar and insisted its staff screw the ill-suited bars into the tapered couplers,
resulting in the rebar being left unconnected.

Making his opening submissions on Tuesday, Paul Shieh Wing-Tai, SC for Leighton, admitted there was miscommunication within
Leighton as those who knew about the mismatch of materials did not tell their site engineering staff.

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