Here are some letters that need to be written to HKR

In nine years of working in the HK construction industry I have never seen a construction project more poorly organized or with less consideration for the people affected.

Some examples:
-On my building work which should have taken four to six weeks is still not completed after six months. Repeatedly the contractor would chip off plastering in one area, let it sit for a month before re-plastering, then let it sit for another month before painting, then start the process all over again in an adjacent area. Such a programme would be wholly unacceptable for most clients, particularly when the work is being carried out on occupied buildings.

-The floor tiles in my stairway were chipped off, the debris covered with plywood, and new tiles/sand/cement stacked outside. Everyone entering my building, including children, had to navigate through this hazardous mess for six weeks, instead of the three or four days the work should have taken to complete. Anywhere else in the world the contractor would have been terminated if not sued for turning a public entrance (and required means of escape) into an unprotected construction site and then leaving it unattended for days at a time. As of today the new tiles have still not been cleaned nor all of the debris removed.

-In addition to blatant disregard for the resident’s comfort and safety there is also a high degree of stupidity involved on the part of whoever organized this work. After five months of re-plastering and repainting our stairway portions of the new work were chipped out to install a new door & associated wiring, and have not yet been patched. Furthermore, while the new doorframe has been installed the new door has not. I expect that if the new door is ever installed another month of noise, dust, and laughably slow work will occur for removal of the old door.

This is nothing but sheer incompetence.
Tuesday, 06 June, 2006