A construction industry body will be set up this year to implement a string of government recommendations to revamp the crisis-hit sector, works officials have announced.
The industry has been rocked by a spate of piling scandals over the past year and the new body will oversee reforms proposed by a high-powered review committee, Secretary for Works Lee Shing-see said yesterday.
More than 100 recommendations made by the committee, chaired by Executive Councillor Henry Tang Ying-yen, have been endorsed by the Chief Executive and Executive Council.
However, Mr Lee said it had not yet been decided who would head the body.
The Works Bureau will be the leading agency to be covered by the new body, which will comprise representatives from the construction industry.
'Our target is to set up this body within 2001,' Mr Lee said.