Hong Kong engineering body concerned whether profession’s integrity was compromised after MTR Corp’s construction scandal at HK$97.1 billion rail line stations
Institution of Civil Engineers expresses concern that professional integrity may have been ‘traded off’ in construction of stations on Sha Tin to Central line
The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) has expressed concern over whether the profession’s integrity was compromised during the construction scandals that have engulfed Hong Kong’s most expensive rail link.
The Britain-based body told the Post it was worried shoddy work at the HK$97.1 billion (US$12.4 billion) Sha Tin to Central line would affect the safe operation of the line.
“As a professional body, we are concerned about whether professional integrity has been compromised or traded off for whatever reasons,” the Hong Kong branch of ICE said.
“We are also concerned as to whether such acts could have adversely impacted on-site staff, and the subsequent safe operation of the system.”
The institution’s branch in Hong Kong has nearly 6,500 members and is headed by, among others, regional director Eva Kong, who was a manager at Leighton Contractors (Asia) between May 2013 and July 2017.