COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO THE CONSTRUCTION WORKS AT AND NEAR THE HUNG HOM STATION EXTENSION UNDER THE SHATIN TO CENTRAL LINK PROJECT
WITNESS STATEMENT OF YEUNG KIN WA FOR MTR CORPORATION LIMITED
I, Yeung Kin Wa, of MTR Corporation Limited, MTR Headquarters Building, Telford Plaza, 33 Wai Yip Street, Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong, will say as follows:
1. I am the Project Manager - SCL Civil - HUH of MTR Corporation Limited ("MTRCL") for the Shatin to Central Link Project (the "SCL Project"). I am duly authorised by MTRCL to make this statement on its behalf.
2. I give this statement based on my personal involvement in Contract No. SCL 1112 since October 2018 and I confirm that this statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. There are occasions when I can only speak to matters by reference to MTRCL's documents, in which case I believe the contents of those documents to be true and accurate.
3. I obtained a Bachelor Degree (Civil Engineering) from the Polytechnic of Central London in 1986. I have been a Registered Professional Engineer (Civil) in Hong Kong since 2007 and a member of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers and the Institution of Structural Engineers since 1994.
4. I joined MTRCL in 1993 as a Site Engineer (Civil). In 2000, I joined Kowloon Canton Railway Corporation ("KCRC") as a Senior Civil Engineer. At the merger between KCRC and MTRCL in December 2007, I took up the role of a Senior Construction Engineer - Civil. Since then, I took up various roles over the years including the role as the Construction Manager for the Kwun Tong Line Extension Project in 2012 and the Construction Manager for the Express Rail Link (XRL) Terminus in 2016. In October 2018, I was appointed to my current position as the Project
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