Chek Lap Kok information technology supervision in question

It is interesting that the failures at the new airport seem to have centred on information technology rather than construction engineering.

I assume that the construction contractors were required to meet the government standards of the Buildings Ordinance, and that government engineers ensured they met those standards. I expect that either the Government or the Airport Authority laid down the acceptance tests and employed top-level engineers to ensure they were carried out.

Was the information technology installed to government standards? Which ordinance was it required to adhere to? Who drew up the acceptance tests? Was the supervising information technology engineer of a level comparable to that of the leading construction engineers? I wonder if the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers would care to comment on the relative professionalism employed in the supervision by the authorities of the construction engineering and information technology of the new airport.

KEN BRIDGEWATER New Territories