Partnering on MTR Corporation Ltd’s Tseung Kwan O Extension

There is growing recognition in the construction industry that traditional forms of contractual relationship and typical behaviours are not conducive to best project implementation in terms of cost programme and quality. There is too much confrontation between the parties involved, insufficient alignment of the parties’ goals, Interests and needs and not enough maximisation of the effectiveness of each participant’s resources. All of these result in considerable inefficiencies in the project procurement process and an ineffective project culture. The introduction of partnering, whereby parties work more closely together, is seen by many as a means of overcoming many of the problems associated with the traditional forms of project procurement. This is particularly true in the UK, the USA and Australia, where partnering has been adopted to an increasing extent over the last 10–15 years. As yet there is very limited application of partnering in Hong Kong. This paper presents case study on how MTRC introduced...