CENTRAL Waterfront Property Project Management Co, developing the $40 billion International Finance Centre complex on the Central reclamation, said costly piling repairs have been made to part of the facility.
The Central Waterfront company is a joint venture between Sun Hung Kai Properties and Henderson Land.
But it said the problems have occurred on the nine-level northern podium, close to the new ferry piers, rather than at the 38-storey South West Tower.
The podium will contain three levels of shops above ground and a six-level basement including three storeys for the MTR.
David Dumigan, Central Waterfront project manager, said of the 110 bored piles used in the northern podium complex 'most of them were short'.
Thirteen had not reached rock level and others 'were down to rock or going into rock but had not been socketed', he said, adding that '25 per cent had been constructed properly'.
Remedial measures involved the construction of two new bored piles either side of each of the 13 that had not reached rock level.
