The Hong Kong Development Affiliation says Hong Kong may undertake mainland Chinese language requirements for building supplies as a substitute of utilizing British and EU requirements to chop constructing prices, that are at present the very best in Asia.
Government director Godfrey Leung King-kwok advised South China Morning Submit the transfer would minimize the price of transporting supplies from abroad.
Hong Kong ranked ninth in Dutch guide Arcadis’ annual league of most costly cities to construct in final yr, however first amongst cities in Asia.
From 2016 to 2020, nevertheless, it positioned within the high three.
“The mainland normal is of passable high quality, and the primary level is the way to execute it,” Leung mentioned.
He mentioned authorities would possibly contemplate random sampling of mainland supplies for high quality management.
The affiliation has been finding out the difficulty and can shortly publish a preliminary report.
Arcadis international cities director John Batten, advised the Submit that foreign-origin supplies had been linked to distant provide chains and tended to incur premiums.
He mentioned mainland requirements had been “sometimes at a lower cost level than European requirements”, including that supplies from the mainland had been of comparable requirements with different jurisdictions.
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