A decision on how to punish the contractor held responsible for the Sha Tin piling scandal has been delayed after Housing Authority members failed to reach a conclusion during a four-hour meeting yesterday.
The Housing Authority building committee decided to postpone until Saturday the decision on what penalty should be imposed on Zen Pacific, the main piling contractor of the Yuen Chau Kok Estate project.
It also delayed a decision on how many of the recommendations of an independent report on the scandal should be adopted.
Substandard piling affected the structural safety of two newly built 34-storey housing blocks that the authority decided must be demolished at a cost of $250 million.
Committee chairman Daniel Lam Chun said it did not want to push through any conclusion on the report before carefully considering the views of all parties involved.
'As the issue has wide implications and the public is very concerned about it, we don't want to rush to reach a conclusion before committee members have had enough time to digest it,' he said.
The committee yesterday listened to the views of Zen Pacific and its parent company, Wai Kee, on the independent report.